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De alchemist

Paulo Coelho

3.62 AVERAGE

adventurous hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
inspiring
adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
slow-paced
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

I found the first half interesting, but it lost me in the second half. The religious themes get laid on much thicker at the end. It was fun to have Scar (Jeremy Irons) read this to me.

What a lovely way to tell a beautiful story. Loved it.

Though some complain of Coelho's prose, I liked it. His fable-like descriptions were perfect as they provided enough information without being tedious, though at times it was awkward. The problem I had was with the amount of life-lessons he squeezed into such a short book. There was just too much philosophy, to the point where I wasn't really thinking about it close to the end.

How did I take so long to read this book?! Loved it.
fast-paced
emotional reflective relaxing medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated