Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist

It was an accident that i came across Paulo Coelho - "The Alchemist" book on the billing counter when i was buying some other stuff. I somehow felt that i need to read through his book, since i have heard lot of people mentioning his name when i say i have a habit of reading. Every one does that, if someone tells that he has a reading habit, we tell the list of authors we have read. May be because we got through only those books. But we feel good in saying those words.Anyway i brought he book because of two reasons first one is that i like the books written with spiritual touch and secondly i have another author & book to mention when someone talks about books.

I could able to like his way of writing and sensed some thing is quite absorbing in writing as i read through its prologue. Before i started i wondered what "ALCHEMIST" is ? and i read through the book i was totally kept thinking about each of the phrases that he put across which means so much in depth.

I had read through so much of spirituality books which talks about life, death, deeds and so on which makes you so much difficult to understand and always makes you feel that you have not reached to that state that you can understand all this hi-fi in life. But when you read through "The alchemist" he tells a simple story of a Shepard who goes in search of destiny which he dreams about. He goes through each of the physiological factors one goes through when one wants to achieve his dreams. He makes you feel that we have to sometime recognize omens and almost make you think that you too have faced them sometime or the other. The story also makes you realize that so many times in our lives too that we have given up our dreams at the very last step and most of the cases it just a step ahead that we missed our dreams. And it feels so good to see how a Shepard faces the difficult times and his thoughts are nothing but your own thoughts. Paulo has a unique style in his writing that as you listen to his stories you relate of the phrases like it is you who he is picturing.

I was so involved that i finished the whole book in one sitting which i have never done before and also went and brought his first book "The Pilgrimage". More on Pilgrimage later.

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