The Big Book Blog

  The fragrance of the seminal rain smoked up the lowered ceiling, a corner of which now dripped wet since the rain. It’s been two days and the rain hasn’t stopped for a bit. The heavy drift in the afternoon kept people indoors, shops unmanned, office filtered, spaced only with the most required. This time of the day, found no rush, no school, no kids in the lawn, no traffic. The only audible were the ones the water clogged drainage created. No honks, no bells, just the deafening thrumming of the huge raindrops against the glassed windows. "I wonder how it's not broken yet," thought Maya. The room chilled with the humid dampness. A kind of uneasiness strolled about her folded forehead as she lay in her bed, uncared.  The untimely rain cast a grey shade to the white-walled room. Her thoughts traveled much past this uncolored chapter of her life as if the rain washed down the petals from her plants. An arrangement made them convenient in the face of society. Th...

  The Alchemist appeals very well to everyone who reads it because, I personally believe, we tend to correlate with the characters of a book, but it is not an appreciable piece of literary work. The philosophy written in here is a poster that is stuck on every wall, but the way it is written, one of its kind. So, what does this book offer to its readers? It is a fictional story of a boy named Santiago, who leaves behind everything we would hold dear, and becomes a shepherd, then goes in search of treasure (one can interpret it in many ways). Ideas, and philosophies lay buried, it doesn’t bump in to the readers (satisfies the one who reads for fiction and the one who reads for motivation). It is subtle, and still makes sense, why? Because everyone wants their dreams to come true. The novel is quite fascinating to me, because of the courage that Santiago displays. The book doesn’t deal with any difficult words, but of course has some dose of philosophy to it. This boo...