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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 133
EAN: 9780062512918
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 0062512919
Label: Harpercollins
Manufacturer: Harpercollins
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 1995-09
Publisher: Harpercollins
Studio: Harpercollins

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Travel into the searing heat of the desert, discover fabulous spiritual mysteries, and witness a fateful meeting with guardian angels in this thrilling adventure and international bestseller from the beloved author of The Alchemist.




Rating: - Coelho's Book
I have read all of his books... Too sad the copy I purchased was not available in Spanish.

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Rating: - Has gems...would make more sense on acid
There are some great insights into the human condition, much like in The Alchemist, but this story is bizarre to the point where its bizarreness detracts from the message being conveyed.

In The Alchemist the storyline served as a vehicle to convey deeper human truths, and these truths were the point of the book. In The Valkyries, the storyline itself seemed like the point. It seemed like Coelho wanted the world to know the weird magic/drugs/psychedelic jaunts he's been on; it's 187 ... Read More

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Rating: - A review of The Valkyries by Paulo Coelho
I found Paulo Coelho's The Valkyries a bit of an enigma. I suspect the author at least partly intended it to be so. In a nutshell, the author seeks to discover new aspects of his psyche, to develop new angles on his existing skills. After a consultation with his mentor, he and his wife set off for a jaunt in the Mojave Desert to find what it is that they seek. Our author is in engaged in a quest, a search for his personal Angel. The reader, I am sure, will be convinced from the start that she accompanied ... Read More

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Rating: - The Alchemist was good. Maybe Coelho's a one hit wonder?
Every page I read, I found myself shaking my head. Raising my eyebrows, tryingto speed read, hoping there woudl be some redeeming quality to this book. There was none. I was actually frustrated that I had wasted my time on this. He is no Salman Rushdie- but you might say that is because the book is in translation. Well that would be incorrect Milan Kundera's books are a case in point. So then I found myself trying to justify the lack of engaging narrative or believable characters in this quite frankly rather ... Read More

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Rating: - What you get outta this depends on where you are in your life and spirituality.
There's a lot of wisdom and truth presented here in this book. The question is, will you or can you understand it? I admit that several places in the book, I would go back and have to reread something, and still not totally get it. But a little further and BAM! -This beautiful piece of writing would pop out and be clear as can be. I am thinking that what you get out of this book most likely depends on several things, like how open minded you are, where you are in your life and where you are spiritually. It's a ... Read More

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