I decided to give this author another go. When Veronika Decides to Die came up as a possible book for my Around the World in Books series (confusingly, despite Paulo Coelho being Brazilian, this book is set in Slovenia).
But the second reading of Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist years after the first reading confirmed my initial impression: I do not like this book.īut I further let myself be gaslit by the siren song of the inexplicably famous Brazilian author. I even read it twice because it is so beloved that I assumed the problem must be me and not the book. Why is this book so famous?! Why do so many people love it so much!? It’s a middling, plodding story of an unlikable protagonist going on a pointless journey. If you were to survey a random cross-section of every 25-40 year old and ask them their favorite book, I’d wager that 68% of them would say The Alchemist is their all-time favorite. I have never felt so gaslit by a book in my entire life than I did by The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (yes, I know this is a review about Veronika Decides to Die, just hear me out).
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