The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream

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Summary: words really can't express how great this book is...
Review: I think that this book should be claffified as a classic, if it is not already. I perchased this book because, of the remarkable reveiws it recived...And all i can say, is after reading the first six pages i understood what everyone was talking about.

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Summary: It has changed my life forever...
Review: The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho: This amazing book deeply inspired me to pursue an "impossible" dream. It has taught me to listen to my heart and it has empowered me to achieve things in life I NEVER thought I would. It is a beautiful story I read for the first time in 1989. It has changed my life since...

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Summary: A must for those considering the path less traveled...
Review: I first heard of this book from a very spiritual German man during a layover in an airport in Germany, who insisted I obtain a copy of the Alchamist and read it immediately. I had left my school, friends and all securities behind to move to Italy and see what my future held. This book helped me verbalize how I was feeling and it gave me a sense of comfort and determination. I read this book in one day and immediately e mailed all my friends in the US and told them to read it for themselves. It's a fable about following your dreams as well as a heart warming tale, that encouraged and motivated me to keep following my heart and exploring. I love this book and I wish everyone could read it just once. Not enough people do follow their hearts and do what they believe is right, to me that's a shame. Read this book, it's so well worth it.

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Summary: Inspirational!!
Review: This book restores lost faith in dreams. Wonderfully written with simple elegance. Mr. Coelho is a wonderful story-teller and I'm very excited to have discovered his books.

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Summary: Just a modern fairy tale, nothing else
Review: The first time I read this book I found it a nice fairy tale. After reading the others reviews here I decided to take the advice of one reader from Brazil and I bought a book by Viktor Frankl and compared it with the Coelho's one. Well, to be honest, the Coelho's book seems to be a little bit naive compared with the Frankl's. Viktor Frankl had been in a really ordeal experience and he really knows what he's talking about. Although Paulo Coelho's books are a little fancy, I still think they are a nice reading to pass the time.(but I really can't see how it can change someone's life).

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Summary: A pleasant read...
Review: This is a nice story of a young boy in search of his dream, unfortunately the author attempts to throw in alot of fluff, or attempts at serious omens and symbols, trying to create a sense of a deeper meaning than can really be had. Nonetheless still a fair story for inspiration.

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Summary: This book will change your life
Review: It did mine. Never before have I read a book that defined the aquisition of one dreams with such simplicity. This book truly moved me and has become a guide. It will for you too. Read this book. And always keep a copy of it with you.

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Summary: The very Best and most meaningful book ever!
Review: This book touched my life forever. I can't even explain how it got to me. My outlook on life hasn't been the same since. I have read this book 7 times in the last two years, given it away for Christmas presents, birthdays, and just because. I have purchased a total of 13 copies!

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Summary: Discover Yourself
Review: "To reach one's destiny is a person's only true obligation" This quote has ignited long lasting debates between my friends and I, and is just one of the passages from the Alchemist that can make you introspect for hours at a time. Stephan I. Levy

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Summary: Just speechless
Review: Well, it's almost impossible to describe this amazing book with my own words... Paulo Coelho always makes incredible things with a pen, it's amazing!! If you get the main idea, you will try not to quit of your dreams (even the craziest one) much harder than you do now!! But you have to watch if you had not found it yet... It's all. Sorry for my poor English, I'm not from an English spoken country...