The Alchemist

The Alchemist

1988 • 181 pages

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Wow! What an incredibly deep and moving story about following your passion into the great unknown. 

After I finished the novel, I thought of the stories and questions the boy asks the alchemist. Each Q&A session is not only profound in the last act of the book, but I feel like everyone asks the same questions in their own way. The answers the alchemist gave the boy were mostly hyperbole, but in the end, they made you feel like he had overcome a great feat to discover his personal legend. 

I feel like this is a book you could definitely re-read and gain more and more from it each time. It is not about the destination, it is about the journey. 

April 6, 2022