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Title: The Alchemist
Author: Paulo Coelho
Genre: Self-help book disguised as a fable
Thingummies: 1
Synopsis: Shepherd takes a really stupid journey in pursuit of his Personal Legend.
Thoughts: This is what would happen if Tuesdays with Morrie and Who Moved My Cheese? had a love child. It tries to be The Little Prince. Instead, it hands us a bunch of mystical nonsense and tries to convince us that the universe will conspire to help us achieve our Personal Legend (seriously? it's capitalized, even in speech) and that if we fail to achieve our dreams, it's just because we didn't try hard enough. And that not pursuing unrealistic dreams will leave us bitter shells of ourselves, by the way.
It's pandering to the worst degree. If that's your thing, have fun. Me? I only finished it because I could hate-read it in two commutes.
Author: Paulo Coelho
Genre: Self-help book disguised as a fable
Thingummies: 1
Synopsis: Shepherd takes a really stupid journey in pursuit of his Personal Legend.
Thoughts: This is what would happen if Tuesdays with Morrie and Who Moved My Cheese? had a love child. It tries to be The Little Prince. Instead, it hands us a bunch of mystical nonsense and tries to convince us that the universe will conspire to help us achieve our Personal Legend (seriously? it's capitalized, even in speech) and that if we fail to achieve our dreams, it's just because we didn't try hard enough. And that not pursuing unrealistic dreams will leave us bitter shells of ourselves, by the way.
It's pandering to the worst degree. If that's your thing, have fun. Me? I only finished it because I could hate-read it in two commutes.
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Date: 2015-07-29 05:20 am (UTC)From:My *major* gripe with it is that it's filed with the adult books, when it's really a children's book. And on the flip side, The Little Prince is filed as a children's book, when it's really an adult book. (This frustrates me greatly, because The Little Prince is one of my favorite books ever, but it made absolutely no sense at all to me when I was a kid.)