The Alchemist Book Review

The book imports the values of spirituality, faith, hope and love through symbolic narration of a fascinating story of an ordinary boy with extra-ordinary beliefs. It teaches its readers, in a very subtle and effective way, the power of positivity. Also, the desert locations that the book encompasses lend a greater mystique to the plot. A shepherd name Santiago travels from his home in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure, meets a gipsy women a king and a alchemist who help him along the way but throughout Santiago’s journey he at last listen to his heart .

Santiago has dreams of traveling the world and discovering treasures, and is courageous enough to walk in the direction of his desires. In order to realize the best that his destiny has to offer, he travels from his home in Spain, through the markets of Tangiers, and into the great Egyptian desert. He gets duped, experiences love, loses and makes money, learns a different language, meets different people, finds himself in pleasant and not-so- pleasant situations. His journey is full of adventure and lessons, while he also finds the privilege of meeting a king, a desert woman and an alchemist, each adding to his life new turns and perceptions. To understand life’s purpose is a very long and strenuous road you may have to follow many great preachers and successful people to reach your destination it’s a great investment of time and desire but this one book will teach you the life’s most important lesson and will help you to reach your destiny without investing much on multiple things.  Santiago was originally trained to become a priest then his intense desire to travel made him to find his true purpose of life.

Every night he has a dream the one dream he wants to know the meaning of, finally his dream leads him to a dream interpreter or a gypsy and the old gypsy tells him to venture out and follow his dream to find the treasure that he has dreamt about and that he indeed needs to find his treasure, there were some very good thoughts and philosophy in this book and Paulo Coelho is such a good writer. Santiago wants to find his path and wants to find his destiny and the book is great in teaching a person regarding a stable vs happy life that its always better to follow a happy life where a person is truly happy and he figures himself out that he has to fulfill his destiny in this earth than just to live a stable life where a person has not found out his true happiness and the reason for his existence. This book is a bestseller it has limited stock, so it would be a good time to get your hands on this book because this is a truly one of the books that will provide you with multiple life’s great lesson.

You want to be happy and successful in your life, like you have fulfilled the life’s purpose than just being rich and stable. This book is mentioned by Oprah Winfrey, Pharrell Williams and Will Smith this book has done great deal and played its part in the life’s of these famous successful people so this book is definitely a must read if we want to learn the secret of success in this life, like these famous people has learnt from this book. Santiago wants to understand the world’s purpose and reoccurring dreams about seeking treasure in Egypt near the pyramids the base of the story is alchemy, alchemy is talked a little bit in this book to transform some base mental to gold, in this book its referred as transforming your life into gold by maximizing your talent and by understanding your purpose in this world in order to achieve your destiny. Islam religion is talked a little bit in this book as well.

Santiago is within all of us, who wants to understand the world around us, trying to figure out the meaning of life and one’s existence.

He meets a king who tells him whatever happen he should be guided by the right reason, he gets two stones that helps him determine what’s the truth behind everything is. The shopkeeper he meets is a very practical man and realizes that there is an opportunity for enlarging his shops to a café from just a glassware shop by the idea given by Santiago, all the character in this book are relatable if they are not, then we are learning something for them that we are going to use in our life for good, so you should consider reading this book to find out which character relates to you, because you want to know if any of your traits relates to the different characters in this book and what else you can learn from them and also how they evolved into a different character so that you can figure out your way to success.

The English men stumbles around the vices of acquiring something but not really acquiring it having a deep desire for something  but not attaining it in the right way the simple reading and writing structure helped the reader understand what the author was trying to import into the readers.

           Originally written in Portuguese, the book has won the Guiness World record for being the most translated book by a living author. The style of the book is third person narrative. The language is simple, yet effective. Every word lends a meaning to the story. It is ideal for readers with a basic command over English language, as well as, for those who are proficient, it’s a small book around 170 pages long.

One very important lesson to learn from this book, that the World definitely need positive energy this will be understood by the reader when they are done with their book. This book is a bestseller and lots of people have bought it and is continuing to buy it, to figure out the life’s true purpose and how to become successful at the same time happy with one’s life because it imports into the reader positivity and the desire to follow one’s own heart. The books instills into the reader regarding realizing one’s destiny, it not only says that, but this book is very persuasive into importing this value to into the reader. This book describes and narrates a beautiful desert scene that makes the readers truly believe that they are in the middle of the Egyptian Desert.

 The author not only barely describes the whole scenes in this book but also describes the felling associated with these scenes, so that the readers can feel what is happening in this book. The narrative is fast paced in the beginning, but slows down towards the middle with sudden twists leading to thrilling portions towards the end. The end of this story or the conclusion will make the readers speechless and the readers would not know how to react. This book tries to teach the readers to have faith in their destiny and to follow their heart if something goes wrong there is always better thing coming for them in the future, and also the book wants the reader to understand that everything happens for a reason. Therefore we should understand the universe’s bigger plan and always keep faith in it. There were many things to learn from this book, one  is to recognize the good things, to live in the present, concentrate always on the present you’ll be a happy person in life, the life will be a party for you, a grand festival because life is the moment where we are living now also we need to understand that life is interesting when we a have a dream, it’s important to know that  everyone learns differently, we need  to  become a better person than we were yesterday also we must understand that we should always  follow our heart and then the universe will open up its arm and help us in reaching our destiny. This book put the readers in the shoes of Santiago and the readers will also try to find the true meaning of one’s existence like Santiago does throughout the whole book so if you like this book and you know that someone could use the help of this book then do the kind of act telling other people about this book so they can buy it and read it and can figure out life for them. By now you might have understood the true power of this book and you must have had the real zeal to become successful and a happy person in your life because you have read it so far, so thank you for reading it. I have done this book review for you to make up your mind before you want to purchase this book either you want to purchase this book or not is totally up to you. So please give it a like and share if you found this review helpful, and always have a great day.

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