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Thank you to Winstondad’s Blog for hosting Spanish and Portuguese Lit Month again. You can read all about it here.
My Interest
I was looking for a fairly easy read translated from either Spanish or Portuguese into English. I’ve read Paul Coehlo’s Manuscript Found in Accra [scroll down in the linked post to my review] and decided to try Hippie which has been on my TBR since it came out.
The Story
“Everything and everybody is the same; this is the mystery and the end.”
“If there was no change, there w ...more
My Interest
I was looking for a fairly easy read translated from either Spanish or Portuguese into English. I’ve read Paul Coehlo’s Manuscript Found in Accra [scroll down in the linked post to my review] and decided to try Hippie which has been on my TBR since it came out.
The Story
“Everything and everybody is the same; this is the mystery and the end.”
“If there was no change, there w ...more
Paulo Coelho’s third person narrative of hippie adventures in the time of hippie-ing. It covers his real experiences as well as those of people he crossed paths with. The narration felt very detached from the characters, despite what should have been an intimate account of Coelho’s wanderings around the world in the spirit of self and human discovery at a time when it was truly a global movement. It’s structured oddly, allowing the two main characters, Paulo the Brazilian and Karla the Dutch lad
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Sometimes I wonder why I continue to read Coelho. Probably as an antidote to The Alchemist . . .
3.5 Stars
Nov 19, 2018
Janet
marked it as to-read
