Book Review: The Alchemist

As someone at Harper Collins puts it "Reading The Alchemist was like getting up at dawn and seeing the sun rise while the rest of the world still slept."

The Alchemist, a 160 pages book, has affected millions ever since it was written. Paulo Coelho's ultimate classic has challenged us, the cowards, who fall back, at sometime or other in the our life on the strange, mysterious word spelled FATE.Taking the story of Santiago, the shepherd boy from the fields of Audalasia, he takes us through the journey till the very end making it highly difficult to put the book down. The book begins with the strange, repetitive dream of the shepherd sees, and goes on to dispel the notion of fate, & instill the courage to find your destiny. The author speaks about the omens, the Language of Universe, about the fact that all things are one and about the arm that made everything. And the author weaves it all so beautifully that you understand them without being actually spoken, experiencing the Language of Universe, while getting to understand the ultimate goal of life: Realization of Dreams.Language of Universe is represented by Santiago as the shepherd understands the sheep, the deathly stillness of desert,flight of birds and many much more things as such...

Merely reading this book will make you recognize omens, understand the Language of Universe for sometime surrendering to the Beginner's Luck mentioned therein.

The book is short, with even the complex issues like that of personal calling explained i simplest of terms.

My advice to you is exactly the same Paolo Coelho heard, from a small's girl telling her mother, in the streets of Miami, "You should read The Alchemist".

My Rating: 9/10