![]() ![]() If you want allegory read Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. If you read a modern rendering of Chaucer it's rubbish but the originals are stunning.If you want spirituality read Gibran's The Prophet. Where they wandering around wanting to find buried treasure and it was only one they'd read this that it occurred to them to start digging? It may be of course that we are losing something in translation. It doesn't deal at all with what to do if your heart's just told you to kill a whole load of people and now you're feeling that twinge of guilt - but then I don't think that kind of thing is within it's remit.My main problems with it are threefold.In a couple of places it doesn't hold true to it's own inner laws.Some of its premises are simply factually inaccurate.If this is a symbolic novel them Coelho needs to make it clearer exactly what some of the things in it are supposed to represent.I'm not sure why people have found it lifechanging. It's simply saying that you should follow your heart. ![]() A diverting little fantasy.It's perhaps spirituality-lite in the sense that it doesn't cover the full gamut of human experience. ![]()
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