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hpeerboom 's review for:
The Fifth Mountain
by Paulo Coelho
I wanted to like this book. I read and loved The Alchemist, and some of the things I loved about that book can be found here - the beautiful language, the nuggets of wisdom, the spiritual themes. But everything that was good about that book became something wholly different in this one. The beautiful language and nuggets of wisdom became a plotless piece of proselytization (say that five times fast). The spiritual themes became a mess of religious intolerance. In the end, a book designed to make us more hopeful left me feeling discomforted and, often, angry.