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The Alchemist
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What Members Thought

Claire
Dec 09, 2011 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
A lovely fable about the choices we make & goals we strive for. A very quick read which I am sure to pick up again.
Amy
Mar 31, 2016 rated it really liked it
Paulo Coelho echoed my thoughts just this past weekend, about traveling: "[I] always [make] new friends, and [I don't] need to spend all of [my] time with them. When someone sees the same people everyday... they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change." I thought of my new friends from the Kilimanjaro trip, I thought of the friends I traveled with in the past. Each their own character. Each loveable and memorable because of their quirks. Let them be ...more
Kim Sasso
Nov 22, 2020 rated it did not like it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: abandoned
This book popped up in my feed because a friend had the misfortune of reading it. That sent me down the rabbit hole of reading reviews. After selling a gazillion copies of this back in my bookseller days, I myself tried to read it at least twice and could not find the words to review it. That's good 'cause I would never have captured the experience as well as my fellow good readers.

But now I've decided that everyone should read this. If you think it is brilliant, well, you have a gazillion peop
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Jan 05, 2014 marked it as to-read
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Amy
Dec 26, 2016 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 2016
Melanie
Jun 01, 2025 rated it it was amazing
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Sep 22, 2017 marked it as to-read
Audrey Cupps
Feb 12, 2018 rated it liked it
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Marissa
Mar 13, 2018 marked it as to-read
Mary Anne
May 27, 2018 rated it it was ok
Shelves: 2018-read
Brodie
Jul 19, 2018 rated it liked it
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Amanda
Feb 17, 2019 marked it as to-read
Kim Witthuhn
Jun 14, 2019 marked it as to-read
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Sep 25, 2019 marked it as to-read
Kristin
Mar 14, 2020 is currently reading it  ·  review of another edition
Sonya
May 15, 2020 rated it did not like it  ·  review of another edition
Aimee
Sep 01, 2020 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Lauren
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