Posted by BuzzOfTheOrient
Feb 23, 2008 9:06 am

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• I have. It is REALLY good. I highly recommend it to many people I meet.

  Feb 23, 2008 9:10 am
  by misswilly

• Paulo Coelho, a very famous Brazilian author. Great book. He has several others graet books.

  Feb 23, 2008 9:23 am
  by Kikazu

• It is probably my favorite book.

  Feb 23, 2008 10:04 am
  by amk257

• In The Alchemist, Coelho turns ink and paper into gold. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. I hope that each of us find our treasure.

  Feb 23, 2008 10:30 am
  by sburkett

• Its a really nice book ... which enhance our imaginations.

  Feb 23, 2008 11:30 am
  by rkflyhigh

• my favorite book by far; you should check out some of his other works

  Feb 23, 2008 11:56 am
  by slbvi

• Kikazu is right, the correct name is PAULO COELHO is a Brazilian author (they speak Portuguese, you know). "Pablo" is a Spanish version for "Paul" and "Coelho" means something like rabbit or bunny.

  Feb 23, 2008 1:24 pm
  by axelmoor

• Mr Paulo Coelho is one of my favorite authors... and The Alchemist is the kind of book that I would love to buy as presents for everyone that I care about... my all-time favorite!

  Feb 23, 2008 1:50 pm
  by Ammaly

• Yep....Paulo Coelho's really famous for many of his books and they're based on spiritism. My mom has all of them. I've read "11 minutes" in portuguese.

  Feb 23, 2008 2:29 pm
  by glitzynini

• This is a great book. I got it as a gift and it is indeed a book thatI would gift as well as it's a great read.

  Feb 23, 2008 2:53 pm
  by rushme29

• Excellent book. Coelho is a talented writer. Also read Veronika Decides to Die.

  Feb 23, 2008 3:35 pm
  by lori1119

• Mr. Paulo Coelho's "The Alchemist" re-sparked my mind, and touched somewhere,tapping into a part of me, which I so needed awakened. Me reading it, was no mistake. No one would believe how it aligned to what was going on around me and how it "predicted" where I was going to venture.I question its true significance, but I know it is OF great significance. I've also read "Fifth Mountain" on Faith. Never had a favorite author or book. Never saw myself buying books for people b/c I never cared to impress my choosings on others (Would they like it? Would it be worth it?) Now I could care less the answers to these questions...because I have faith in the power of words...his words (which I feel were guided by someone/somewhere much higher. He speaks from a place--a place I feel we all aim for, but whose path we do not look forward. He is obviously blessed...and his books have thus far been a blessing to me. :)

  Feb 24, 2008 2:05 am
  by smonet88

• It was a good book, simple...and yet, at the heart of the simple and very common tale, the story evolves into a magical story.

  Feb 26, 2008 4:42 pm
  by thaivargas

• Sorry to be a grudge but if I were you I'd pick up any book of Plato and take it from there. The alchemist is classic philosophy washed out one too many times.
  Then again, reading is a very private matter and the Alchemist have touched a lot of people and I do not want to diminish that. I just find it sad that not more people seem to want to experience the original work of art rather than listening/watching/reading the cover work.

  Feb 27, 2008 9:39 am
  by gronskog

• Definetly this book changed my life. You see the life with another perspective when you finish reading, i dont mind it has some imaginative elements, this book works to make life and easier.
  
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  Aug 15, 2008 2:47 pm
  by wendyg131

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