The Alchemist - Book Review #1

The Alchemist

My Rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5)

Book Intro:

This blog is about a book review. Here I gonna share my thoughts about a book. The book name is The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. I read many books but this is my personal favorite. Do you love traveling? I love it so much... I love to travel and explore new things. This book is also about the travel experience of a young boy. He meets new people, he experiences many fantasies, and so on. You don't know that what your travel going to give to. It may give great adventures, sweet memories or it may also give you the worst experiences. But in that situation, you can learn how to manage the worst side of the world and you'll learn how to tackle the problems. 

Author: Paulo Coelho

Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Quest

Published year: 1988

Publisher: Harper Collins

About the Book:

This book is about a tale of a young boy named Santigo and he is from Andalusian. He was a sheepherder and travel around the world with his sheep. But he is not a born shepherd. He loves traveling. So he wishes to explore the world. At first, her father didn't allow him but he understands his son's dream and he accepts to go. He lived by shepherding sheep. He has a recurring dream to be foreshadowing, so he adit an astrologer in his town to the truths about his dream. She described his dream that he is going to find a treasure in the pyramids of Egypt. So he sells his sheep and gets money for his travel. 

Yes! he decides to become a treasure hunter...!! He started his travel to Egypt. In his travel after he arrives in Africa, a man pretends to help him to find the treasure. But it's not true. He robs all the money that he made from selling his sheep. He had no money to move further. So he begins working for a crystal trader to make sufficient money to go to Egypt.

                       

Through this trip, he meets a lot of people. And also he got many good and bad experiences. Santiago then meets a wise alchemist who also teaches him to understand his true self. And this is so weird experience to him.

About the Author:

Paulo Coelho is a Brazilian author, was born in Rio de Janeiro. He composed many novels like The Pilgrimage, Veronika decides to die, etc., But The Alchemist was the best-known novel. 

Conclusion:

This is an adventuresome novel that takes us to many places and gives a new adventure in each chapter. This is a good book for novices to read and also is light to read. And everyone must read this book. I hope you never miss reading this book.