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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SW-User

I read it years ago... so many years ago that I don't remember it at all😳

DanielChristensen · 46-50, M

@SW-User Haha that makes sense. A young shepherd goes on a quest of self discovery essentially

SW-User

@DanielChristensen 🤔🤔🤔

DanielChristensen · 46-50, M

@SW-User That's usually a good idea. ;)

SW-User

@DanielChristensen still don't remember it at all haha.

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DanielChristensen · 46-50, M

@SW-User Did you want a little more detail?

The young man Santiago has a good life with his sheep, moving from place to place. He is in tune with nature. He thinks of marrying a merchants daughter.

He encounters a spirit of fate that offers him a chance to find a great treasure across the sea in another land.

He takes the chance, sells his sheep, has misadventures, grows more world wise, meets a woman of the desert tribes, a scholar and the alchemist.

He travels to the Egyptian pyramids only to discover the treasure is buried by an old church where he had his first dream about his future.

The real treasure he finds is knowledge, wisdom, an interesting life and someone to love.

It's about having the courage to take chances and how life will meet you half way if you do. Charming book, simple story with inspirational wisdom underneath.

SW-User

@DanielChristensen interesting. I guess if I'd read it again would be like reading a new book again

DanielChristensen · 46-50, M

@SW-User I find it interesting and worthwhile to revisit something after time. It can be like the north star, a fixed point, by which you see the change in yourself.