It felt unsettled and it was not clear to me what the conclusion it is. It was hard for me to concentrate on it, because for me there was no clear plot. Typically, there is always some kind of message in his books, this time if there was one, I did not find it. The book feels more like a re-narration of what happened years ago and it did not catch me at all. I missed the magic which typically surrounds his words, I missed the typical writing style, and I missed the story. However, this book did come across as somewhat of a disappointment for me. The novel is an unusual cocktail of religion meets backpacking and reading a copy of Arthur Frommer’s “Europe On Five Dollars a Day” in a VW bus.Ĭoelho’s readers, which read all his books as I have, cannot wait to get their hands on a new story and be taken away on a magnificent unique adventure. Written from a third person perspective, you are introduced to his girlfriend, Karla, and get to know how the flower children have financed their travels, how they got information through the “invisible newspaper“, and some very unexpected situations in which only Coelho can put himself in.
Hippie is based on the time in which Coelho was travelling the world and living the way of a hippie. Within his novels, he shares his knowledge which he gathered over the years while travelling the world and learning different kind of religions and cultures with his readers. Coelho has the rare gift of telling these incredible stories, but he is also a writer who does not focus on just writing novels. Every year when Coelho publishes a new book, it is a special kind of journey that the reader is taken on. In Coelho’s new book you are taken back to the days of “Make Peace Not War”.
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