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    <![CDATA[<strong>My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer,&quot; the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.&quot;Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.&quot;</strong><br/><br/>Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. <em>The Alchemist</em> is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, <em>The Alchemist</em> has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come.<br/><br/><em>The Alchemist</em> is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.<br/><br/>The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel like everyone LOVES this book, but I was kind of underwhelmed.  I know that translation affects the quality of writing, but I could not get into this writing style.  At all.  I felt like it was totally affected and contrived.  He was going for this &quot;fable/parable&quot; style, but it seem...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4968096">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer,&quot; the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.&quot;Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.&quot;</strong><br/><br/>Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. <em>The Alchemist</em> is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, <em>The Alchemist</em> has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come.<br/><br/><em>The Alchemist</em> is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.<br/><br/>The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really disliked this book. I dislike it in the way that I dislike a great deal of modern self help books. Their basic message is that if you want something to happen, you need to want it as hard as you can, without caring about anything else, not allowing yourself to doubt it, or let criticisms wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4515369">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer,&quot; the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.&quot;Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.&quot;</strong><br/><br/>Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. <em>The Alchemist</em> is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, <em>The Alchemist</em> has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come.<br/><br/><em>The Alchemist</em> is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.<br/><br/>The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Everyone (save one guy) said I would love this book. Three of my four roommates have their own copies. That one guy was right. Now this may be because he planted that seed of discontent, or it may be because this was the least creative and most redundant book I've read in a while. It answered the qu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/393233">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer,&quot; the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.&quot;Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.&quot;</strong><br/><br/>Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. <em>The Alchemist</em> is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, <em>The Alchemist</em> has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come.<br/><br/><em>The Alchemist</em> is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.<br/><br/>The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've got your Personal Legend right here, Paolo Coelho.  This may be the first book I've ever read that was so bad it actually made me angry at the author.  If I ever run into Paolo Coelho, I hope I'll beat him down to the ground and take the inflation adjusted equivalent of the 13.95 I paid for thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37389422">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer,&quot; the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.&quot;Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.&quot;</strong><br/><br/>Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. <em>The Alchemist</em> is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, <em>The Alchemist</em> has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come.<br/><br/><em>The Alchemist</em> is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.<br/><br/>The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was told by someone who recommended this to me because I mentioned my love for <em> The Little Prince </em> ...but seriously, anyone that thinks these two are even in the same league is mistaking simplicity for profundity. Sure. Both are simplistic stories about emotional and literal &quot;bildungsroman&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/392828">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer,&quot; the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.&quot;Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.&quot;</strong><br/><br/>Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. <em>The Alchemist</em> is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, <em>The Alchemist</em> has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come.<br/><br/><em>The Alchemist</em> is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.<br/><br/>The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer,&quot; the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.&quot;Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.&quot;</strong><br/><br/>Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. <em>The Alchemist</em> is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, <em>The Alchemist</em> has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come.<br/><br/><em>The Alchemist</em> is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.<br/><br/>The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer,&quot; the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.&quot;Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.&quot;</strong><br/><br/>Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. <em>The Alchemist</em> is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, <em>The Alchemist</em> has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come.<br/><br/><em>The Alchemist</em> is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.<br/><br/>The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Alchemist has been translated into like a million languages, and it feels like it. Bland sentences, simple story telling and zero nuance. It's a quaint parable about a shepherd who bucks the current course of his life - shepherding - to go in search of his Personal Legend (Coehlo's caps, and phr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/337479">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer,&quot; the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.&quot;Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.&quot;</strong><br/><br/>Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. <em>The Alchemist</em> is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, <em>The Alchemist</em> has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come.<br/><br/><em>The Alchemist</em> is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.<br/><br/>The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[While this book made some points that I agreed with (all things in the universe are one; a person is happiest when living in the present moment, rather than the past or future; even things that seem like detours in your quest toward achieving your goals can be rich opportunities for learning) I just...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10502913">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer,&quot; the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.&quot;Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.&quot;</strong><br/><br/>Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. <em>The Alchemist</em> is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, <em>The Alchemist</em> has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come.<br/><br/><em>The Alchemist</em> is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.<br/><br/>The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Satu-satunya buku di dunia dimana saya memiliki 4 versinya, versi Indonesia bajakan, versi Indonesia legal, versi bahasa Inggris dan versi bahasa Spanyol. Dan konsekuensinya, buku ini menjadi salah satu karya tulis yang beberapa kali saya baca. Salah duanya kumpulan berita kemenangan AC Milan dlm ko...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3561617">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer,&quot; the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.&quot;Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.&quot;</strong><br/><br/>Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. <em>The Alchemist</em> is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, <em>The Alchemist</em> has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come.<br/><br/><em>The Alchemist</em> is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.<br/><br/>The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Utter drivel. The book was badly written, righteous, condescending, preachy, and worst of all, the ending was morally questionable. All the fables and stories are stolen from elsewhere, religious ideas and spirituality are badly mixed, and everything is so <strong>obvious</strong>.<br/><br/>The book harps on about...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6595270">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer,&quot; the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.&quot;Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.&quot;</strong><br/><br/>Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. <em>The Alchemist</em> is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, <em>The Alchemist</em> has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come.<br/><br/><em>The Alchemist</em> is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.<br/><br/>The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I simply could not finish this book. I got halfway through it only to wind up on <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://goodreads.com">goodreads.com</a> to see what others thought.  I simply felt guilty panning a book that has received such global acclaim; more than that, I felt lame and inadequate.<br/><br/>Well, it turns out that my sentiments were echoe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11064685">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer,&quot; the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.&quot;Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.&quot;</strong><br/><br/>Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. <em>The Alchemist</em> is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, <em>The Alchemist</em> has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come.<br/><br/><em>The Alchemist</em> is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.<br/><br/>The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer,&quot; the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.&quot;Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.&quot;</strong><br/><br/>Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. <em>The Alchemist</em> is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, <em>The Alchemist</em> has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come.<br/><br/><em>The Alchemist</em> is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.<br/><br/>The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are too many things one can learn from “The Alchemist”. Its all about following your dream and about taking the risk of following your dreams, which is actually so difficult to do and there are very few people in this world who actually do, I mean risk it all, just to follow your heart and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23918036">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer,&quot; the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.&quot;Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.&quot;</strong><br/><br/>Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. <em>The Alchemist</em> is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, <em>The Alchemist</em> has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come.<br/><br/><em>The Alchemist</em> is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.<br/><br/>The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer,&quot; the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.&quot;Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.&quot;</strong><br/><br/>Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. <em>The Alchemist</em> is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, <em>The Alchemist</em> has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come.<br/><br/><em>The Alchemist</em> is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.<br/><br/>The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Selesai membacanya buku yang saya punya sepertinya akan memiliki bentuk baru. Di tiap lembarnya ada lipatan. Teknik penanda jejak baca yang memudahkan untuk merefer ke halaman yang menarik tetapi dengan resiko menurunkan penampilan buku. Thx to Mr. Dj untuk tips ini.<br/><br/>Garis merah dari pemb...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20581686">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer,&quot; the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.&quot;Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.&quot;</strong><br/><br/>Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. <em>The Alchemist</em> is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, <em>The Alchemist</em> has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come.<br/><br/><em>The Alchemist</em> is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.<br/><br/>The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Look, I realize many of you loved this book, so be warned, because this isn't a recreant review. Two stars is generous. I found this thinly veiled self-help book to be simplistic in form, prose, and plot. The only thing to celebrate about the book is the conclusion, because that means you're officia...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22600395">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer,&quot; the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.&quot;Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.&quot;</strong><br/><br/>Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. <em>The Alchemist</em> is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, <em>The Alchemist</em> has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come.<br/><br/><em>The Alchemist</em> is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.<br/><br/>The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is one thing to read a great book and be inspired. It is an entirely different thing for the author to throw it in your face...&quot;You will be inspired, you will be inspired...&quot; I felt like I was bombarded with heavy handed one liners ever other paragraph. If you haven't started this book,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24171850">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer,&quot; the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.&quot;Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.&quot;</strong><br/><br/>Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. <em>The Alchemist</em> is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, <em>The Alchemist</em> has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come.<br/><br/><em>The Alchemist</em> is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.<br/><br/>The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I fucking hate this book and this writer so much.  I used to work at a hippie vegetarian restaurant where everyone raved about it, so I should have known what a disaster it would be.  Writing in the style of a fable does not convince me that what the author says is true or profound, this just sucks ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4797927">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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