The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

He also loves trannies

What a cultured man, truly worthy of his book

A lot of people give it shit.

But that part when the main character is standing on the cliff face appealing to God really touched me.

I like how the treasure was home but he had to travel the world to find it.

Mistakes are made. We are all human.

this.

I had to read it in school I think and hated it. Sparked a general hatred for the author. cant stand his prose or ideas.

i liked it haha :)

>i liked it haha :)
its a girls book yes we already knew this

what makes something "a girls book"?

if girls are the ones who mainly talk about it

I can't even tell if this is sarcasm or not
if it isn't, it's awfully short-sighted

A great book actually.

A terrible book actually

Horrible writing style, it reads like it was written by a 5 year old. Especially that shit in the desert with Fatima was so stupid I threw the book across the room.

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eskimo

Did his writting get worse or better after Alchemist?

I am Brazilian, nationality that, to my shame, is the same as Coelho’s. You want to know what is the problem with Paulo Coelho? Here's the problem:

>a) As a writer.

He is a writer whose books deal only with esoteric themes, new age topics, pseudo-spiritualism and especially religion (a lot of religion). Paulo Coelho writes what people in general (and we all know that the general population does not have anything remarkable in the mental department) want to hear: he talks about the power of the human soul; about God and God's love for everyone; about things like “if you really want something and wish something, than this something will happen for the whole universe is going to conspire to make it happen [go tell that to terminal cancer patients who wish with all their souls, with all the juices in their bodies, the heat in their blood and marrows to just keep on living]”; he speaks that everyone can achieve great things and be significant (usually by just wanting to be so); he pseudo-philosophizes about life after death; talks about his own “experiences” with angels and demons, and so on. In other words: he is just a mix between a self-help writer and a dishonest-priest.

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>b) As a human being.

Paulo Coelho is a despicable person. In reality he is a coward that poses as some kind of saint and guru (and anyone with half a neuron knows what gurus are made with). Some examples of the glorious life achievements of this fellow: when he was young he hit a child with a car and fled the spot with fear; in his youth he was also just a scrawny and shy, a fearful and frightened boy (his surname, Coelho, means rabbit, which is appropriate, since this animal is shy and fragile), but today he loves to tell interviewers about how he was "wild" and "crazy" in this days of youth, and that he was able to fight the demon, sober up and, after long years of toil, changed himself into a much more spiritual and enlightened being. He says he can control the weather and see angels and stuff like that (now, anyone who makes such claims is either psychotic or a charlatan, and Coelho’s eyes look too much like the eyes of a dead-fish to indicate that he actually suffers from some sort of mental illness – what remains is charlatanism). In fact you cannot see an interview with Paulo Coelho without wanting to vomit with his air of superiority and the faker-look. He once had an affair with a woman and got her pregnant. After undergoing an abortion, she had a heavy depression. Coelho encouraged her to attempt suicide (hiss reasons were that he through that such mystical and psychoanalytic approach, a kind of shock therapy, could help her). Paulo Coelho (in a biography written about him) appears forging the signature of his own father, plagiarizing a text from Carlos Heitor Cony (another Brazilian writer) and giving interviews about a meet with John Lennon that never happened. He is, in short, a bad character.

He is that typical character of Portuguese-catholic morals: that kind of people who talks about god and religion and saints and reading the bible but that are constantly acting like cowards and weak-willed sinners. You know, the 2 things that the suburbs and neighborhoods have in greater quantity in catholic countries are churches and bars: this is the typical contradiction of this kind of culture. People rant about Jesus and Mary and the holy ways that will conduct you to heaven and think that it is a big sin to miss Church, but this same people, after church and work, will go to the bars and drink all their salaries in cachaça, and gossip about others, and don’t pay the bills, and don’t go to school, and lie, and cheat, etc.

It is no wonder that Protestant countries in Europe are richer, wiser and much more organized and cultured than Catholic ones.

Good analysis

Don't get me wrong, I love this post, but my friend: every European country is plagued by alcoholism, not just the Catholics. It, along with Christianity, is the cornerstone of European culture

Who?

Pretentious, boring, but it has that happy shit to it which normalfags love

I dont think the guy who wrote this is around anymore. That's a very old copy pasta

Good post, but you left out the part where he disses Joyce.
>theguardian.com/books/2012/aug/06/paulo-coelho-james-joyce-ulysses

só gringo pra gostar desse bosta msm

tho one about The Way of St. James Cahill Paulo Coelho is also greati loved it as a young teen.

It's not a book.

It's a scam we came up with in the 80s and 90s, exploiting american new age spiritualism and neo-hippie trends.