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title: The Alchemist
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author: Paulo Coelho
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stars: 2.5
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readDate: 2025-04-06T23:00:00.000Z
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url: 'https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/bdbb04f8-8b6b-40e4-bf0f-32487b0289e9'
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thumbnailUrl: 'https://cdn.thestorygraph.com/nwl3h8xcqglu9f3tq2bwwvq9stfa'
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tags: 'fiction, classics'
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I really wanted to like this book, given it's a classic and all, but I found it way too fluffy. The whole Personal Legend thing I just found really superficial, especially when the boy decided to drop what seemed, to me at least, to be a near-perfect life (along with the one person who helped him when he arrived) for a chance at gold in Egypt. I didn't finish it, so this whole parable could have worked itself out in a "the gold is the friends we made along the way" sort of way, but I couldn't bring myself to find out. Shame, really, because the story got me half-way there. It tailed off in the desert for me.
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