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* OlderThanTheyThink: Talk to any teacher who's taught this book in their class, and they'll tell you about students being outraged that it's "a rip-off of ''[[Literature/HarryPotterHarry ''[[Literature/HarryPotter Harry Potter'']]." This book was written nine years before ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', and the story of the Philosopher's Stone has existed for '''hundreds of years''' before that.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: Talk to any teacher who's taught this book in their class, and they'll tell you about students being outraged that it's "a rip-off of ''Harry Potter''.''[[Literature/HarryPotterHarry Potter'']]." This book was written nine years before ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', and the story of the Philosopher's Stone has existed for '''hundreds of years''' before that.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: The book is pretty heavy on Christian symbolism, including many Bible references, as befits Coelho's devout Catholicism.
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* LoveItOrHateIt: 99% of readers either think the book is a beautiful fable with wise lessons to teach us about life, or a pretentious New-Age story whose "wisdom" makes no sense once you think about it.
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* Narm: For some people, the books comes off very much like Paulo Coelho has an inflated view of how wise and profound he is, and it gets too much sometimes.
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* Narm: For some people, the books comes off very much like Paulo Coelho has an inflated view of how wise and profound he is, and it gets too much sometimes.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: The book is pretty heavy on Christian symbolism, including many Bible references, as befits Coelho's devout Catholicism.
* Narm: For some people, the books comes off very much like Paulo Coelho has an inflated view of how wise and profound he is, and it gets too much sometimes.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: The book is pretty heavy on Christian symbolism, including many Bible references, as befits Coelho's devout Catholicism.
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