Homo-Coelhoeins

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Is that like those Chicken Soup For The Soul books? Those are what I like to call 'feel good' books full of stories that hold little relevance to daily life.

I seriously wished I could get back the time I spent trying to figure one of them out.

it is actually Who Moved my Cheese, but It was a typo of mine (edited now), but her 'joke' obviously referred to this book. That only shows how much I "admired" this book to the extent that I would mistype its name!

I dunno, judging on its name, it sounds like the same crap.


Btw, did you know that Homo-Coelhoeins differ greatly from Homo-Sapiens in gender ratio? Their male to female ratio is about #####:1, the 1 is Coelho himself.

Googling Homo-Coelhoeins brings up links to WP.

WTF is it?

The Alchemist is an allegorical novel by Paulo Coelho first published in 1988. The Alchemist was originally written in Portuguese. I thought he was talking about the book

he means the people who read the book are 'homo-coelhoeins'.

clifnotes on the book?

Oh...

I'm going to walk away now.

It's a very recent anthropologist discovery, Tea. Their craniums have the same size and shape of Homo-Sapiens , but with brain density lower than chimps.

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The Alchemist details the journey of an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago. Santiago, believing a recurring dream to be prophetic, decides to travel to the pyramids of Egypt to find treasure. He then tells a lone gypsy about this treasure. As he leaves, the gypsy mentions one thing: If he does find the treasure, she wants 1/10 of it. On the way, he encounters love, danger, opportunity, disaster and learns a lot about himself and the ways of the world. One of the significant characters that he meets is an old king named Melchizedek who tells him about discovering his personal legend: what he always wanted to accomplish in his life. And that "When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it." This is the core philosophy and motto of the book. During his travels, he meets a beautiful Arabian woman named Fatima who explains to him that if he follows his heart, he shall find what it is he seeks. Santiago then encounters a lone alchemist who tells about personal legends. He says that people only want to find the treasure of their personal legends but not the personal legend itself. He feels unsure about himself as he listens to the alchemist's teachings. The alchemist states "Those who don't understand their personal legends will fail to comprehend its teachings."

I loved reading the alchemist. It is kind of a fantasy book though. I dont think it should be taken seriously : / well not in the sense that it is being taken anyway.

Ok. Time to intervene. Apparently I would be considered a lesser human being for saying this, but I did read and enjoy "The alchemist" and several other books from Paulo Coelho. The book is allegorical. It is very basic "school of mysteries" for dummies. I actually admire Coelho for trying to share that information with the masses.

I also read "Who moved my cheese", and it has its value, also. That book pretends to deliver a message to very basic people. And I think it succeeds in that.

Thats pretty much how i saw it, but apparently we can't think of the book in a slight positive manner without missing some brain mass

Homo-Coelhoeins aren't those who have read the Alchemist or any other Coelho book, but those who chose a Coelho book as the best book in the wooorrllllllld.

I think there was a whole lot of hype around it when it was released. Having that as favorite might give some of them the notion that they are special, and that they think and look at the world in a different way. Whatever works for them, really.
Personally my favorite book/s are the "Thrawn trilogy" haha

Self help books with christian subext, sort of narnia for adults. Somehow he has written a few best sellers(at least around here).

Tried reading the alchemist but when I was at the middle I had to give up due the heavy amount of christian subtext. Dont have anything against christian values(have a tendency to listen to alt rock christian bands) but if I wanted to read a christian book I'd pick one, dont try to sell a religious book as a self help one.

Not sure if it would work out between me and a coelho fan or not.