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Also the vocabulary used is amazingly restricted, so you will need no dictionary. It (in various translations) is a great lecture, if you want to read foreign languages you don't speak very well. So every thought is repeated again and again with other words. It is written not in slow motion but in a kind of slow thinking. But the book, however, is useful for something. Thank you so much for this text! I thought I was crazy as even my clever boyfriend likes the alchimist. "Well, let me break this down to you - it's bollocks."
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Then I say "So you believe that 'when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve Anyone above the age of three should be able to get them. How can you NOT understand Coelho? His books are as complicated as shoelaces. And then they say I just didn't understand it! I try to fight and say that Coelho just took some Hallmark cards and some well known fables, mixed them together thus produced a bastard offspring that he brazenly called literature. And I can't listen to this because it is hurting my ears. Then they go and say that Paulo Coelho changed their lives, that The Alchemist is the most important book they have read. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering." and convince themselves that they are dealing with a literary genius. No reason is needed for loving.β or "Waiting hurts. People with no literary education read things like βOne is loved because one is loved.
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Whereas Danielle Steel or Dan Brown resigned themselves to provide us with mindless entertainment and are free of any pretences that they give us anything more than that, Coelho is duping us into believing that he is revealing some great philosophical truths. What does this all have to do with Paulo Coelho? Well, I have realised the problem I have with Paulo Coelho is that he pretends to be literary fiction. Yes, I might sound a little pretentious but people would just assume I am more into a lack of plot and that would be that. Now I can just say 'literary fiction' and avoid the risk of offending people. "Well, I don't really read genre books so much, I read the, you know, proper books, like, er.good And I would always say something along these lines: I used to be put in a very awkward position when people asked what kind of books I read thrillers or romance novels, or crime stories. I didn't fully understand why either until I became familiar with the concept 'literary fiction'. There are after all hundreds of bad writers β see Dan Brown, Nora Roberts or Danielle Steel β yet I let them be. While this is true, it doesn't quite explain the repulsion. What is it about Paulo Coelho that evokes such strong emotions from within me? The simple answer is I hate Paulo Coelho because he is a bad writer. If you have ever met me in person you should know that I am a milliant Paulo Coelho hater.