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 when you have excess time

Best as: an epitome of the classics #wiseman

Best for: Steve Jobs to summarize the book with his famous dot quote "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever."

BATB score: 5/10 for your 150 million copies sold.