Santiago was a boy who lived his life according to his dream of becoming a traveller -- he was a shepherd of a flock of sheep.

He then truly lived his dream, literally -- when he decided to meet a gypsy who can decipher his recurring dreams past few nights sleeping in a church, it was about a treasure that he needed to find that located in the Pyramid of Egypt.

Never knew that his path toward the treasure would never a smooth one. He was living an adventure to finally come upon the treasure that all this while had been just under his feet. He had learnt of language, of crystal, of chemistry, of the soul of the world, the sand dune, the alchemist, the omen and of love -- perhaps the other treasures he had acquired along his journey to find the treasure he dreamt of.

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The Alchemist is a fast paced story, yet still has its right amount of adventure and cultural it brought into the plot. It has enough of its twist, of its narration that would not bore me inspite its short and thin content. Words upon words were told delicately smooth and meticulously.