There were tidbits of insight and lessons but the characters were not developed enough for me to care. Written like a story, but based on his real life, I didn’t think it portrayed Coelho’s vibrant youth and his travels in a compelling and powerful way. ”Įven though I enjoyed learning a little more about Paulo Coelho, his rebellious stage and his emotional journey to find the meaning of life, for me, Hippie fell flat. To dance is to use a language beyond selfishness and fear. Those who are free dance, even if they find themselves in a cell or a wheelchair, because dancing is not the mere repetition of certain movements, it’s a conversation with a Being greater and more powerful than everyone and everything. “Dancing transforms everything, demands everything, and judges no one. I particularly enjoyed reading about his discovery of dance and his transformative experience with Hare Krishna dancing and singing in the street. With no formal plans for the future, what today we might see as a lack of responsibility, the idea of free love and the benefit of simplicity of travel, Paulo communicates his experiences that enriched his life and helped him on his search for meaning. We learn about their relationship and the other travelers on the trip. They take the Magic Bus across Europe and Asia to Katmandu. Paulo embarks on a journey from Bolivia to Peru, Chile and Argentina and then to Amsterdam, where he meets Karla, a young girl looking for a travel companion to Nepal. “We don’t choose the things that happen to us, but we can choose how we react to them.”

Throughout this book he has injected his thoughtful ideologies and gives us a description of the ways of the world in the 1970s.Įven though Coelho had gotten himself into trouble often as a young man, it seems as if he was a deep thinker. In Hippie, Paulo Coelho writes a story based on his own life experiences, his relationships, political views and personal values, and his adventures of travel and terror of kidnapping. I loved The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and was hoping his new book would feel as important.

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