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Loading... The Alchemistby Paulo Coelho
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I would recommend the book, though I don't think I would read it a second time. (  ) TiffanyK | Nov 12, 2009 |  Maybe I just didn't get it. (  )1  |  ccavaleri | Nov 12, 2009 | Fue el segundo libro que leí de este señor, y la realidad se ha convertido en uno de mis favoritos pues es de los libros que te hacen ver que si tienes sueños debes ir tras ellos, que todo esta a tu alcance para lograrlo solo tienes que tener el valor necesario para ir tras ellos, una autoayuda muy buena, muy bien redactado y enriquecedor en palabras y frases. (  ) mesalina | Nov 5, 2009 | This is an easy-to-read book about a boy on a quest. He is a shepherd, happy in his work until he has a dream about finding treasure. He speaks with a king, interviews a gypsy fortune-teller, and meets a wise and respected alchemist, all who point the young boy forward to the pyramids of Egypt, where it's told that he will find his treasure. The author entertwines Biblical teachings with the visions and storytelling of persons the boy meets while on his quest. ( ) pbarber42 | Oct 26, 2009 | I was told a long time ago by someone that once meant a lot to me that I absolutely had to read this book because it would speak to me and change my life. Four years later, I finally picked it up. My life was not changed and it didn't really have much to say that I hadn't already heard. While the tale was decent, and the message was pleasing, nothing about this book jumped out at me as anything incredible. Sometimes I find that deeper meaning piled upon deeper meaning just becomes a little too contrived for my taste. (  )2 sixteendays | Oct 26, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0007175256, Audio CD)Like the one-time bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sniff a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a new one: even the ancient tribal storytellers knew that this is the most successful method of entertaining an audience while slipping in a lesson or two. Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. And so he's off: leaving Spain to literally follow his dream.Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in unassuming forms such as a camel driver and a well-read Englishman. In one of the Englishman's books, Santiago first learns about the alchemists--men who believed that if a metal were heated for many years, it would free itself of all its individual properties, and what was left would be the "Soul of the World." Of course he does eventually meet an alchemist, and the ensuing student-teacher relationship clarifies much of the boy's misguided agenda, while also emboldening him to stay true to his dreams. "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night. "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist replies. "And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity." --Gail Hudson (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:05 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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