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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
BATB score: 5/10 This book takes you back to high school literature class. A very abstract self-improvement parable - where you then write a 500-words assignment on the symbolism and psychoanalysis of what Paulo Coelho must have meant. p.s. your ambiguity is frustrating. The no-climax fable with out-of-this-world characters, where the wind talks and a scarab beetle is an omen, cross paths in the oddest plot lines Spain-Africa-Egypt. Best to: read when quarantined #covid19 or
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