Amen. I hate this book with a passion. Mein Kampf I couldn’t finish, but The Alchemist I just read all the way because I despised it so much and releasing all that negative energy felt good. It has a flimsy plot that is really meaningless, a character out of a fable that is just underdeveloped and a lot of platitudes made to sound like wisdom. And yet, it’s a worldwide bestseller in multiple languages.