The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | Simple But Strong Message

The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | Inspiring for life

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The Alchemist

	The Alchemist Paulo Coelho HarperCollins, 2006 - 208 pages average customer review:based on 1307 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Simple But Strong Message

Paulo Coelho weaves a masterpiece confronting the very basis of the way we live in society today. He tries to show that if you follow your, "Personal legend" which is what your deepest dream is, and what God has planed for you, you will achieve true happiness.
Paulo Coelho was born in Brazil. He has always been devoted to art of literature. He was once captured by paramilitaries because of his deep faith in freedom of speech. He started writing at age 27, and his first book was not much of a hit. When he wrote the first edition of the Alchemist it only sold 900 copies. He brought it to a different publishing company. It caught on like wildfire and sold more than any other Brazilian literature. Since then, he has continued to write books and has sold more then 65 million copies in 150 different countries in 60 different languages of his various novels.
Paulo Coelho does an amazing job of showing his perspective on how life should be lived. He writes a vivid story of a Shepard that gives up all he can to find a treasure. The Shepard is constantly challenged along the way and has to overcome these challenges. Coelho focus greatly on following your heart and omens from God in order to achieve your personal legend. Personally, as a high school student, I think that it is a good book, but can seem a little far-fetched, as far as the ideology goes, to some people. I think that it takes an intelligent individual to understand the book for what it truly is.
This book is written extremely well and is full of very insightful wisdom. I agree with him when he states "To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation." However, this can be quite hard to do in today's society. Overall a very good book.

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Inspiring for life

It is really an inspiring book. This happens to all people, what is the real desire in our heart, how we can follow the inner voice in the heart. The author has used a shepherd boy to show us how we could live our life, it is always a matter of thought, of how we relate to the people we met. The author also shows how God works in our lives. I think it is really true in the way he told us!

The best book ever!

I read the Portuguese version and I loved. I gave the English version as birthday gift to my American girlfriend and a friend and they both loved it. This book is full of wise lessons and easy to read (I finish it in 4 days). Once you start you never stop. I recommend to read it with a marker to highlight the life lessons which you are about to learn.

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