Jun 22, 2004 01:41 PM
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(Updated Jun 22, 2004 01:41 PM)
What in the high hell was paulo thinking when he wrote this book?
Perhaps since I bought when I had heard just too much about it, and therby had so many expectations, but this book turned me down. What is this book trying to tell us???? that you are gone forever if you dont listen to the voice of your heart when you are a kid? you have lost the game once you grow up??
The book is all about a kid lost in his life, always trying to do something different, and is supersitious to high heavens.
What starts as a journey to find treasure turns into a super boy+ super intelligence+ super trash. What I don't understand are the omens this book keeps talking about, as if that were all that decided the course of our lives. This book is a strict no-no for anyone who passed the twenties.
The protagonist looks always lost in his search for god knows what, most of the sayings and parables can be found in other moralistic stories, like aesops fables.
If you are going for this book just to get motivated then I guess 'who moved my cheese' would be a better option for its simplicity and ease of understanding. this book tries to become complex at the cost of the story, which I think is just plain simple.
I found this book a waste of time, which fortunately was only an hour or so, and was mighty disappointed by the end, specially since it forgets all about his lovely wife found in the desert by some myterious omen. come on, motivation is the last this book offers. Just another fairy tale, I would call it, with very little touch of realism, 99% of fantasies, and an over confidence in prose.
Highly over rated.
