Paulo Coelho

To learn about yourself, explore the world around you. Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, bestselling author Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to relive the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established social order. In HIPPIE, he tells the story of Paulo, a skinny Brazilian with a goatee and long hair, setting off on a journey in search of a deeper meaning for his life. He travels on the famous ‘Death Train to Bolivia’, then on to Peru, later hitchhiking through Chile and Argentina. In the famous Dam Square in Amsterdam he finds young people playing music, while discussing sexual liberation, the expansion of consciousness and the search for an inner truth. There he meets Karla, a Dutch woman in her twenties who has been waiting to find the ideal companion to accompany her on the fabled hippie trail to Nepal. Together with their fellow travellers, they embark on a trip aboard the Magic Bus, heading across Europe and Central Asia to Kathmandu. For everyone, the journey is transformative. For Paulo and Karla it is a life-defining love story that leads to choices that will set the course of the rest of their lives.

Hippie

Inês Alegria Ferreira

I honestly can't remember much about what happens in this book. I had never read anything by Paulo Coelho (I know it's a big shock since almost every single person has read The Alchemist). I was just constantly hearing that he was not that good of a writer and to be honest I only picked this up because it was for free at the library and the cover was super cute. 

I do remember that this was told in the first person by Paulo Coelho about his adventures as a younger boy, in the time of the hippie generation. Right away we know the book is going to be about this big trip that he embarks on. He mainly describes all of these awesome places that he got to visit and how he eventually got to know this dutch girl named Karla and how together they got into The Magic Bus in a journey towards Nepal. Overall it was fun especially if you are curious about the hippie movement and the Woodstock years like I'm. I do admit though that it is not something that will particularly change your life.

Adiya 

Paulo Coelho is a Brazilian novelist, mostly known for writing inspiring and spiritual books. And don't mind but his books are anything but spiritual and inspiring, and if you feel otherwise please don't read this, chances that we might disagree. 

So this story is supposed to be an autobiography, but I think it should be a travel blog on some newspaper's weekly edition. Because it's basically about Coelho's journey to Kathmandu in a "Magic Bus" where he goes by singing and dancing on Hare Krishna and sufi dance "Dervish." 

Not to be mean or anything but I don't like his stories, like The Alchemist was overrated but I gave him another chance with this one but he continues to be a disappointment. And what's his issues with "spiritual journey", "soul of the universe", "nectar of gods", and "free love" and his love for DRUGS. He honestly writes like he is high on some drugs talking about Sun God, Krishna and Sufisim in a single book. 

Dude was like, "here have a joint, also wanna read about naked people in a river by mountainside, read my autobiography." He sounds like that colony wale retire uncle who has zero concept of reality and gives zero fucks about you and tells his Jawaani ke Qisse for the nth time.

Coelho is the textbook defination of anti-nihilist and anti-absurdist, dude finds meaning in literally EVERYTHING. There are mountains, let's make a circle on top of it and dance so that God would see us more clearly. There's fire, let's dance around it in a circle, so that God will remove negativity and empty our hearts. Dude give God a break. There is absolutely no ups and downs, just this stupid talk about finding wisdom in India and realities and more drugs. I sincerely wish he actually for once visit India, he will be tremendously disappointed, like he left Sufisim.

Kindest request don't pick this book even when you have been a fan of Paulo, it is not something out of box, 4 lines from Geeta, 4 lines from Sufisim and tried to explain over the period of 287 pages, this whole book is like Indian roads, full of potholes.

Isabella Stocka

Immer wenn ein neuer Coehlo auf den Markt kommt, eile ich dem Buch entgegen und kann es kaum erwarten es zu lesen. Coelho hat eine besondere Gabe Geschichten zu erzählen, die ich bei keinem anderen Autor bislang entdeckt habe.
Diesmal erhielt ich ein Rezensionsexemplar von Vorablesen, wofür ich mich bedanken möchte.

Meine Vorfreude auf das Buch wurde nach nur wenigen Seiten zur puren Enttäuschung. Ich konnte keinen roten Faden erkennen, die Erzählform von der wechselten dritten Person gefiel mir nicht und das Buch wirkte unruhig auf mich.
Coehlo legt sich nicht fest nur Romane zu verfassen, sondern teilt auch gerne sein Wissen, welches er auf all seinen Reisen gesammelt hat, mit seinen Lesern und verfasst auch mal eine Art Handbuch/Ratgeber.
Hier, fehlte mir selbst das. Die besondere Atmosphäre die seine Bücher ausmacht fehlt komplett.
Ich kann nur hoffen, dass sein nächsters Buch wieder an seine vorherigen wundervollgen Geschichten anknüpfen wird.

Kovács Kinga

gracyn neely

Marlene Rosenthal

Lara Trusch

Isabella Agostino

Hyshe Thaufeeg

Tathagat Ghosh

chrystyna

In Hippie, Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to re-live the dream of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established social order--authoritarian politics, conservative modes of behavior, excessive consumerism, and an unbalanced concentration of wealth and power. Following the "three days of peace and music" at Woodstock, the 1969 gathering in Bethel, New York that would change the world forever, hippie paradises began to emerge all around the world. In the Dam Square in Amsterdam, long-haired young people wearing vibrant clothes and burning incense could be found meditating, playing music, and discussing sexual liberation, the expansion of consciousness and the search for an inner truth. They were a generation refusing to live the robotic and unquestioning life that their parents had known. At this time, Paulo is a young, skinny Brazilian with a goatee and long, flowing hair who wants to become a writer. He sets off on a journey in search of freedom and a deeper meaning for his life: first, with a girlfriend, on the famous "Death Train to Bolivia," then on to Peru and later hitchhiking through Chile and Argentina. His travels take him further, to the famous square in Amsterdam, where Paulo meets Karla. She convinces Paulo to join her on a trip to Nepal, aboard the Magic Bus that travels across Europe and Central Asia to Kathmandu. They embark on a journey in the company of fascinating fellow travelers, each of whom has a story to tell, and each of whom will undergo a transformation, changing their priorities and values, along the way. As they travel together, Paulo and Karla explore their own relationship, an awakening on every level that brings both of them to a choice and a decision that sets the course for their lives thereafter.

Hippie

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