The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho December 12, 2007
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I find it hard to summarize my thoughts after finishing reading the book just a while ago. In my previous post I mentioned that the author found a very natural unobtrusive way of touching important subjects, such as how divorces are treated by the catholic church. There are of course more:
- balance between male and female in the world; balance between the old (safe, but uneventful) and the new (exciting, but dangerous)
- state-forced fruitlessness of humanitarian help for countries in need
- finding, or re-discovering, a human being in ourselves
I think I will stop here–the last item is the most important one for me. And certainly, The Witch of Portobello will be among the books I will return to one of these days…
The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho (reading in progress) December 5, 2007
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I really like the book!!! The formula of a series of interviews helps touch many important subjects, and make us, readers, think about them.
- divorce and church
- trance and its effects on productivity
- how much of ourselves we lose just to become more efficient (hand-written vs. machine duplicated word)
I’m sure there will be much more. I’m at 1/3 of the book.
