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Der Magier: Die Biographie Des Paolo Coelho (2010)

by Fernando Morais(Favorite Author)

3.94 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

3257067526 (ISBN13: 9783257067521)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Diogenes

review 1: An illuminating book about an author who I only discovered recently, ironically at about the same age as he was when he wrote his first major book, The Pilgrimage. But Coelho has lived a much more extreme life than I, including a period where he was heavily involved in Satanism. I was actually pretty shocked about that. Indeed, Coelho comes across in this biography as a sometimes dishonest and manipulative man. The biographer had access to his diaries and has exposed a lot of information about Coelho that the famous writer probably wasn't expecting to ever be made public. The biography also sometimes pandered to its subject and so I can't help wondering what it left out.All that said, I admire Coelho tremendously for living a full, fun life and for communicating the spirit... moreualism he discovered to millions of fans - including me. He's lived a very fortunate life, having enjoyed money and hedonism (sex and drugs) in his youth. He's also had a difficult life at times, notably the 3 times he was put into mental asylums in his teenage years. Whichever way you look at it, it's been an extraordinary life.Coelho still has many eccentricities, but undeniably he's found happiness in his spirituality and who he is now. I respect that a lot.
review 2: Paulo Coelho has sold 100 million books in the metaphysical spiritual genre, written in the style of light novels or fables. His most famous one is The Alchemist, which I loved. Since I've read most of his books, I wanted to see how much of his personal life was contained in them. I found out that many of the magical/sorcery experiences he's had actually are things he's experienced in real life. In addition, his experiences with being forcibly hospitalized as a young adult, for what his parents called mental illness and I would call just not fitting in, figure into his books. Coelho is a passionate, deep, unconventional man with a profound sense of the mystery of life. Those who feel practices like tarot, rituals, and searching for hidden meanings are silly, however, might not like his books. I was surprised to find that his books are extremely popular in Russia. The biography, which was authorized, was fascinating, but the writer gave to many details, so it moved too slowly. less

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