Anyone heard of Paulo Coehlo?

[jiro81]

i like veronika decides to die..

from wikipedia..

Although Coelho has achieved great international success, his work has not been unanimously appreciated at home; his election to the Brazilian Academy of Letters proved controversial. Seen by some Brazilian literary critics as a lesser author whose material is too simplistic and similar to that of self-help books, criticism of his work arises mostly from his plain, direct style and borrowing of ideas from other authors, to the extent of plagiarism. Additionally, his works in Portuguese contain grammatical errors and inaccuracies; some of these have been minimized in translation or altered in later editions.

[gareb]

i find something missing, something lacking in the way he writes.

i have read many of his books, but i am still not impressed.

[jiro81]

i reali thought nindot kaayo ng Alchemist and river piedra.. tsk tsk grabeh ka corny.. hehe

[johnnski]

i find something missing, something lacking in the way he writes.

i have read many of his books, but i am still not impressed.

i agree, im not really impressed by the way he writes..

[miyay]

i like his writing style. its simplistic and the stories are like parables.

i'm waiting for soft print of brida, kanang tag 250php lang.

[Pi2plank]

i have read 6 of his books (all inside national bookstore)

By the River Piedra
The Alchemist
Eleven Minutes
Veronica Decides to Die
The Devil & Miss Prym
The Witch of Portobello

currently reading The Zahir (halfway na, i try to do my free reading routine after everytime i pay the electric bill at veco)

my fav would be Veronica Decides to Die & the Witch of Portobello, i think he's currently getting better at his works.. i hope i could read Brida, i've read a few pages of it but there's no open copy now in NBS.. nice unta story, about soulmates..

[b|tcH_g0dd3sS]

my fav would be Veronica Decides to Die & the Witch of Portobello, i think he's currently getting better at his works.. i hope i could read Brida, i've read a few pages of it but there's no open copy now in NBS.. nice unta story, about soulmates..

I'm not sure how many of his books I've read but i also liked Veronica Decides To Die and The Witch of Portobello.

With Veronica, I liked it because it was painful.

With the Witch, it was different from how his 'usual' style is.

If you've read a number of his works, you'd see a pattern but with The Witch, that style wasn't there.

Sometimes Coelho gets cloying. If you read too much of him, you'd suffocate in all that sentimentality. If gareb finds that there's something lacking in the way he writes, I'm on the opposite and finds him, sometimes too much of the emotional rollercoaster ride.

If I'm going to read another of his, that would be 11 Minutes, because reviews say it was also different.

[sandsss]

I enjoyed Eleven Minutes and The Devil and Miss Prym. Wala kaayo ko naka-appreciate sa The Alchemist.

[sera]

i have read his book the alchemist its was ok believing in oneself to get ones dream is fairly usual

[dwardwarbinx]

i've read the alchemist, veronika decides to die, the zahir, by the river piedra...

after the first two books kay zzZzZzz kaayo.
pare-pareha ra ang themes nya ang pagkasuwat sad similar.
i did like veronika decides to die though. it was fun. pero nothing special. ^^
heh.