The alchemist:
This is a book for the adolescent character. It describes the postponement of whatever life has to offer until some mysterious personal fulfillment is achieved. It offers the opposite of the classic wisdom of finding the opportunity of fulfillment in where you are, whom you are with and in the present. This is a dumb book like one I read many years ago called Jonathan Livingston Seagull, which described a seagull who dared to soar and fly differently than all the other gulls. This book was very popular, too. I suppose there is always an appetite for justifying the facile approach to (missing) life. Don't waste your time on it -- or at least don't get sucked in by it!
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