I was reminded by Facebook of this rant I posted in 2014 as a response to a swathe of advisory messages thellling me how much I would love the books of a certain author. It is reposted today because again I am getting very irritated with people (assuming they re people abd not AI bots although the stupidity of their advice suggestd the latter,) telling me what I should and should not enjoy, what opinions are 'right' and those which I must not entertain and most of all which protected charateristics I must never question or criticise. FUCK 'EM ALL.
And yet I get told Coelho has original insights on the meaning of life.
That alone should tell you he's a twat. You want an insight on the meaning of life? Try Albert Camus: "“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
Or Immanuel Kant: "Objects exist in reality, only a human mind can surround them with space and time."
Or erotic writer Anais Nin (eat your heart out E L James) "There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.”
Actually Nin's quote is a rather verbose and much more nuanced summarisation of the plot of Coelho's best known work, The Alchemist which, in its entirity could have been written as a single sentence on a small post it note, "Follow your dream."
Yeah, that's it. Profound eh? It should carry a health warning on the last page for simpleton's who get that far, "Don't be a schmuck like this guy says, get a job and have a decent life."
If you want a life changing book try Huxley's Brave New World or Orwell's 1984, The Grapes of Wrath, To Kill A Mockingbird, Catch 22, Moby Dick, Tess Of The D'Urbevilles, (not my favourite Hardy novel but Jude The Obscure is a bit obIan Thorpe
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I am sick of the mooey shit I see on the internet. Really I am. First and last thing I saw yesterday was a collection of supposedly inspirational quotes from that shittiest and most overrated of writers Paulo Coelho. Coelho's shittness is not my opinion, it's a fact. Coelho is one of those writers loved by the politically correct, bleeding heart left. All lefties will tell you how great his books are and how they will change you life.
This only proves that politically correct, bleeding heart lefties are illiterate because if they had actually read Coelho's books rather than just saying they've read them to impress other politically correct, bleeding heart lefties, they would know what a banal, infantile, meaningless pile of shit these pithy little literary wanks are.
People who think they will look intelligent because they claim to have read Coelho usually dismiss the characters in action novels or spy yarns as two dimensional. Coelho's characters are one dimensional (and that is being kind), so say the charm of them lies in the fact that they are like childrens' stories. Actually they are not, they are like stories written by a child - a child of very little intellectual depth. What we are told is 'profound wisdom' is in fact just the sort of pithy aphorisms everybody's granny used to say to us when we were little. And our grannies learned the stuff from their grannies.
And yet I get told Coelho has original insights on the meaning of life.
That alone should tell you he's a twat. You want an insight on the meaning of life? Try Albert Camus: "“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
Or Immanuel Kant: "Objects exist in reality, only a human mind can surround them with space and time."
Or erotic writer Anais Nin (eat your heart out E L James) "There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.”
Actually Nin's quote is a rather verbose and much more nuanced summarisation of the plot of Coelho's best known work, The Alchemist which, in its entirity could have been written as a single sentence on a small post it note, "Follow your dream."
Yeah, that's it. Profound eh? It should carry a health warning on the last page for simpleton's who get that far, "Don't be a schmuck like this guy says, get a job and have a decent life."
If you want a life changing book try Huxley's Brave New World or Orwell's 1984, Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressel, Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, To Kill A Mockingbird, Catch 22, Moby Dick, Tess Of The D'Urbevilles, (not my favourite Hardy novel but Jude The Obscure is a bit obscure for most people) or North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell to name but a few. Written by grownups for grownups.
And to finish off, let's take a bit of advice from Brian. "You don't need to follow anybody, think things through for yourselves.
So if you are going to 'share' what you like with me, make sure it is what you like and not what somebody told you you should like. Because I do not like being treated as one of the sheeple, so if I get things thrown at me that are what the pseuds say everybody has to like I will probably not appreciate the gesture.scure for most people) North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell to name but a few. Written by grownups for grownups.
And to finish off, let's take a bit of advice from Monty Python's Brian: "You don't need to follow anybody, think things through for yourselves.
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