What did you think of The Alchemist by Paolo Coehlo?

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I've just begun reading it. There is a clean, earnest simplicity to its progression. I just came across the first of what I imagine will be several quotes I will pull from it.

"If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own."

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SimplyTracie · 26-30, F

I wonder how many lives he has changed. Betcha he could change the weather if it could read.

DanielChristensen · 46-50, M

@SimplyTracie Wow. High praise indeed. As an author, it is my greatest joy to touch someone's heart.

SimplyTracie · 26-30, F

@DanielChristensen Words do that for me. Even Judy Blume books touch my heart.

DanielChristensen · 46-50, M

@SimplyTracie How about something of mine? Would you prefer something very personal or something very powerful

SimplyTracie · 26-30, F

@DanielChristensen Nothing too deep. I like fiction written in the first person.

DanielChristensen · 46-50, M

@SimplyTracie Hm sorry. Deep end of the pool is the only end I swim in.

SimplyTracie · 26-30, F

@DanielChristensen Really? Awww. At what reading level do you write?

DanielChristensen · 46-50, M

@SimplyTracie Extremely advanced for the most part. I do have a fiction story up. It is kind of like The Alchemist in that it's a simple tale with an undercurrent of feeling and wisdom

SimplyTracie · 26-30, F

@DanielChristensen I’m pretty sure Ernest Hemingway wrote at a 5th grade level. Why don’t you?

DanielChristensen · 46-50, M

@SimplyTracie I write what I write because I am who I am. My writing is myself

SimplyTracie · 26-30, F

@DanielChristensen No offense sir. I was just curious

DanielChristensen · 46-50, M

@SimplyTracie Better to experience it than discuss it.

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