Situation1: 10pm, Coimbatore, too hot, fan @ speed 5, harsha lying on his bed with a tiny book in his hand. the top right of the book reads 12 and that's the page number.
And the book is "THE ALCHEMIST"...
Situation2: 10:30pm, Coimbatore, too hot, fan @ speed 5, harsha lying on his bed with a tiny book in his hand. the top right of the book reads 12 again!!!!!!And the book is
"THE ALCHEMIST"...!!!!!
Then, i felt this is too much....i've about 400 friends in orkut and have peeped into several thousand profiles and atleast 50% of them have ALCHEMIST as their favo book...
So i thought let me contribute to increase that percentage and bought the, 150 odd page book, in coimbatore!!! and then it started!!!
The first few pages of the book boasts of it's readers...Bill Clinton, Julia Roberts......and many more!!! i thought of adding my name in the end...So started...
And then the clock showed 10:00pm and u know the rest..till 10:30!!!
DISCLAIMER: If u have read the book and have liked it then please dont read further.....
Goddamn it!!!! Paulo Coelho has gone crazy....!!!! he says life is dependant on OMENS!!!
oh my A** was my immediate answer!! And does the life depend so much on omens?? YES if u've read and liked ALCHEMIST!!!
the book says life keeps showing omens at each and every point of time...lol...
harsha wakes up and it is an omen!!! i go out for a leak..and tadaaan!!! it's an omen...i talk to my friend it's an omen.... my PL screws me and it's an omen too.... my code has a milion bugs and paulo says...Harsha beta..it's an omen..dont worry..... and i shout F*** You Paulo!!! because life doesn show omens all the time.... and the best omen was that i stopped reading at 10:30pm....else i'd die...
Now my analysis of what made THE ALCHEMIST an International BESTSELLER!!!
1) The book is small (150 few pages) .
2) People like me go by orkut profiles and buy books...
3) people buy books to see and analyse why people like clinton, julia roberts etc read it..!!!
4) it comes for about 50 bucks!!! cheapest bestseller!!!
5) There are some people who find crap tasty, movie like jodhaa-akbar interesting and book like The Alchemist mindblowing...
If you havnt read it yet then please dont do that mistake....
If u have read it then y the hell dint u inform me!!!
and if u still believe in thrill and tough tasks then The Alchemist is waiting for u....
PS:Please tel me the story (if u can finish in 10 mins) if u finish reading it..
-Regards
Harsha
3 people mind to share what they feel:
Hey harsha....Today i first time viewed your blog......Realy nice set of collections.....well i wanna comment on your " All chemist " post.......What you said is absolutely right ..Life runs not by omens it runs by our will to lead the life.......But..The book can be read with a different set of interpretations......rather philosophical interpretations which would really bring you a kind of satisafaction in reading.......Try it out...!!! ha ha ...i know u will not.......hey anyway very nice writing...
@shesh: i'm really honoured to read ur comment and to hear that u r reading my blog..Spare the swears in the blog..and pl tell me the philosophical analysis of alchemist...it's still in my cupboard...with loads of dust on it and tonnes of omens in it !!
Harsha tamma...That book is really not for ppl like us.Period.
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