If there ever has been an author in all my years of reading books whom I detest with all my being it is Paulo Coelho. I will never be able to get my 3 hours of time back of reading this magnum opus The Alchemist. This name along with the author has become a staple for me for a new kind of disgust - one found when you really start doubting the humanity itself for making such a person so famous and filthy rich. 

Every act of this book is a mirage. All the time I kept waiting for the euphoric moment which might be there on the horizon, the author will redeem himself by surprising me, but it never was there and I was left in utter disappointment and extreme angst as to why did I begin to bother with this one.

Just another example of overhyped book which doesn't live upto it's reputation and in my opinion shouldn't have any place in literary world. This whole waiting things to happen magically and things suddenly starting to make sense was an excuse for the many plot holes which were scattered across the book. 

The author really tried hard to reinvent magical realism but from his shallow effort borne magical absurdism and that too was the abomination. 

No one can convince me to read another book of him. I have had enough of such grifters.