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Summary: GREAT FOR THOSE IN TRANSITION!
Review: This easy reading little book provided sunshine to an otherwise hectic world. Coming home to read something so simple yet so profound was VERY enjoyable.
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Summary: One of my all time favorite books
Review: What can I say - this book taught me how to follow my destiny. I recommend it to people every where I go.
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Summary: Everything my heart felt but couldn't say.
Review: The Alchemist is truely inspiring. It made me want to get out of bed and climb every mountain in my path. The great books give you insight, the Alchemist goes further.. it changes the way you see life.
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Summary: It changed my life
Review: As an MBA student at the University of Chicago, The Alchemist is required reading. It facilitated an unexpected and wonderful discovery of my life's ambitions! It takes tremendouse courage to accept a journey of unpredictable rewards. Reading this, I found that I had to face my ambitions instead of living in fear of them. I encourage everyone to read and grow from this fable.
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Summary: Encouragement to follow the wisdom of your own heart
Review: Reading this book changed my life. I found within this simple story the encouragement I needed to move forward in my life, and the courage to take the risks to follow my heart instead of the practical advise of the world around me. I have no regrets three years later. This story is simple, the lessons are profound. This is the wisdom of innocence, which is not the wisdom of the world around us. This is the kind of advise loving parents want to give their children. If you really want to follow your heart, and you hear a nagging voice in your head (or from your friends and family) that you should do the PRACTICAL thing instead, do yourself a favor and read this book. The hero of this story doesn't have an easy time while he follows his heart, but he has the joy of knowing his life is well spent, and does achieve his dream. This book shows you a magical view of what your life can be.
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Summary: A masterpiece
Review: Quite simply, one of the best books I have ever read. Simplicity, gripping story line, deep spiritual truths related to chasing a dream and coherence are its key assets. You will love it. - Satya Prabhakar Editor, The Daily Fix END
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Summary: Nice style, shame about the content
Review: The book certainly thinks a lot of itself. From the tone of it, it seems to reckon it has most of life's moral and spiritual problems sorted out. But the moral behind the simple (and, let's admit it, charmingly written) fable is patronising, misguided and smugly offensive. Coelho only manages to make his central idea (that if you really want something, the world conspires to help you achieve it) seem faintly plausible by setting his story in a time and place as different from our contemporary experience as he can. Can't see his thesis holding much water in post-WW2 Europe, really. The message to 'follow your heart' is just selfish ambition dressed up as spirituality. It's the sort of philosophy Gordon Gecko would feel pretty much at home with. And it's sexist too - men get to follow their hearts; women get to stay home and wait patiently for them to come back. And to cap it all, when the hero finally discovers the 'treasure' he has been searching for, it turns out not to be the moral enlightenment the reader was half-expecting, but a stash of cash. Keep this book away from your kids, whatever you do. Saint-Exupery it ain't.
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Summary: "The Little Prince" Of Our Time
Review: If you liked the simplicity and deep of the book "The Little Prince" you might enjoy this one, which shows us how is so simple to live if you give an attention to the things around us. Most of the time the happiness is so near, but we spend years to notice that.
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Summary: It motivates the soul!
Review: I plan on re-reading "The Alchemist" over and over... it is not only inspiring but motivating to do something extra ordinary with our lives. To break out of the fast pace life which so many Americans lead and to follow your personal goals, letting nothing stand in your way!
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Summary: an extraordinary tale, simply written, deeply appreciated
Review: This book has touched my heart in a way I didn't think I needed it to. It was extremely well written in that its simplicity caused an overflowing of rich emotions in me. I have read many many books in my life that touched my heart but few--like this one--left an impression on my very spirit. It is a book that has been passed to me through a long line of friends (starting in Argentina) and will continue to be passed along to other needy people (going to the U.S. today). Sorry Paulo for not making you a rich man like you have made us. The gift you give will return tenfold...maktub
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