The Horror of Paulo Coelho
Can someone please explain to me why people still buy Coelho's books in droves when he comes up with this sort of drivel:On the act of sex on a public footpath:
"the moment when Eve was reabsorbed into Adam's body and the two halves became Creation".
"At last, she could no longer control the world around her," Coelho continues, "her five senses seemed to break free and she wasn't strong enough to hold on to them. As if struck by a sacred bolt of lightning, she unleashed them, and the world, the seagulls, the taste of salt, the hard earth, the smell of the sea, the clouds, all disappeared, and in their place appeared a vast gold light, which grew and grew until it touched the most distant star in the galaxy."
I mean could the man be any more in love with himself and make any less sense? Do people who read this actually feel somehow inspired or uplifted? The only thing I feel uplifting is the food in my stomach rising through my oseophagus as if struck by a 'sacred bolt of' crap.
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posted by LX @ 1:18 PM
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