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A fable about undauntedly following one's dreams, listening to one's heart, and reading life's omens features dialogue between a shepherd boy and an unnamed being, in a new keepsake edition of the modern classic. Reissue.
 
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The Alchemist is a Big Bore

Date of Review:  Mar 19, 2005
The Bottom Line: Avoid it.
Review: 'The Alchemist' is supposed to be one of those books that has changed the life of millions of its readers, the world over. Well, count me out; I am not one of those.

Written by Paulo Coehlo, it has got lavish reviews. I have read 'Veronika...
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Recommended to buy: No

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You can read it pretty fast.
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Pity the words didn't shine like gold too...

Date of Review:  Sep 13, 2004
The Bottom Line: It is a bland story about a boy who goes traveling?that is all...
Review: The concept of destiny is one that the majority have wrestled with at some stage, but only a minority believe in – the rest of us dismiss our future as nothing more than a batch of random happenings and coincidence. Personally, I believe too much in...
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Recommended to buy: No

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A MYTH RATHER THAN A FABLE.

Date of Review:  Apr 9, 2005
The Bottom Line: A book conceived and created to appeal to the most gullible amongst new-agers. By all means keep it away from children.
Review: Believe it or not, the author of this book starts his narrative by recounting how he lost and then FOUND his way seeking truth in alchemy.

All straight-faced. Anyone who was taught elementary chemistry is left dumbfounded.

But...
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Authors Paulo Coelho
Narrator Jeremy Irons
Illustrator James Noel Smith
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  Format: Paperback
Publisher: Harpercollins (May 01, 1995)
Measurements: 8.25"(h) x 4.75"(w) x 0.5"(d), 0.35 lbs.
ISBN: 9780062502186

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  The boy's name was Santiago. Dusk was falling as the boy arrived with his herd at an abandoned church. The roof had fallen in long ago, and an enormous sycamore had grown on the spot where the sacristy had once stood.
 
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My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky."Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams."Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. The Alchemist is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come.The Alchemist is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.The story of the ...
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My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky."Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams."Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. The Alchemist is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come.The Alchemist is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.The story of the ...
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