I've always been a Paulo Coelho fan but I never got around to reading The Alchemist until one of my friends recommended it to me. And I have to say.. it's a must read! I don't want to give away the plot but The Alchemist is about Santiago, a young Shepard boy's journey trying to pursue his destiny. It wasn't the journey Santiago took that fascinated me, it was what he learned on the way. It made me realize that we all have a calling, a destiny we are meant to pursue. As we get older, we begin to get distracted causing us to stray away from our calling making achieving what we were meant to achieve seen impossible. “We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as the years accumulate, so too do the layers of prejudice, fear and guilt. There comes a time when our personal calling is so deeply buried in our soul as to be invisible. But it’s still there.” (vii)
I'm a big Paulo Coelho fan myself as well, and I liked "The Alchemist", but "The Zahir" is my fav novel by Paulo! Have you read it?
ReplyDeleteNope, but i think i will since you mentioned it, he has a reallyreallyreally good book called The Witch of Portobello, you might like it :)
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