A review by jadellipsis
Hippie by Paulo Coelho

2.0

I really wanted to love this book. I have quite a fascination with hippies, 60's counterculture, psychedelics, nomads, pretty much everything this book promised to be about. But unfortunately, the plot was rather thin, the conflict was small and subtle, and it read more like a travelogue than a novel or even interesting memoir. There were definitely some quotable lines and a lot of the standard Coelhoesque spiritual fare that I appreciate, but about 3/4 of the way through I realized I was still waiting for the book to pick up, and it never did. I was disappointed, given that the flapjacket made it seem like it was going to be a book that I would adore.