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Warrior of the light : a manual
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- ISBN: 0060527978 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780060527976
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Physical Description:
xix, 136 p. ; 17 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2003.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Companion to: The alchemist. |
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| Subject: | Conduct of life -- Fiction |
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- 4 of 5 copies available at Sitka.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Castlegar Public Library | 131 COE (Text) | 35146001276708 | Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Stewart Public Library | 131 COE (Text) | 32238000268878 | Adult Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Tumbler Ridge Public Library | ANF 131 COE (Text) | TRL052228 | Adult Non-Fiction | Not holdable | Lost | 2008-11-15 |
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| Sechelt Public Library | 131 COEL (Text) | 40161416 | Nonfiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2003 February #1
Brazilian Coelho (renowned for The Alchemist, 1993) has sold over 35 million copies worldwide and been translated into 54 languages. His latest may end up in the same enviable boat.Each Coelheo offering is slightly different in form but similar in voice-a voice that can be uplifting or chock-a-block with placebos of the religio-saccharine. The author's best is The Fifth Mountain (1998), about the prophet Elijah's battle for monotheism and his rise to heaven-still alive-in a chariot of fire. This time out, Coelho compiles parables and meditations first published over a three-year period in a column called "Maktub" in Folha de São Paulo and other newspapers in Brazil and elsewhere. The compilation is framed by a brief parable-or, if compared to Tolstoy's steel-etched parables, by a bit of fluff. A strange woman tells a boy from a fishing village, "Just off the beach to the west of the village lies an island, and on it is a vast temple with many bells." The boy spends many fruitless seasons sifting on the beach and becomes the butt of jokes from his mates as he waits to hear the bells. Only when the beauty of the seagulls' cries, the roar of the sea, and the wind blowing through the palm trees become one to him does he at last hear them. The woman returns and hands him a blue notebook full of blank pages and tells him that, as a Warrior of the Light, one who understands the miracle of life and yet still has a child's eyes, he must write down the path that led to his being a Warrior. Sample: "Sometimes Evil pursues a Warrior of the Light, and when it does, he calmly invites it into his tent . . . . When he has heard everything, he gets up and leaves. Evil feels so weary and empty after all this talk that it does not have the strength to follow him").Feeble. Copyright Kirkus 2003 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2002 November #2
A guidebook for good living on the tenth anniversary of The Alchemist. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Review 2003 April #2
This companion volume to Coelho's popular The Alchemist is an odd hybrid-a self-help manual with fictional overtones; a series of aphorisms and platitudes set within the frame of the sketchiest of parables. In the parable, a boy meets a beautiful woman at a beach, who proceeds to tell him about a hidden undersea temple near a vanished island. The boy fails in his initial attempt to find the temple, though he hears its bells ring, but later, as a grown man, he again meets the woman, who hands him an empty notebook and directs him to write about the "Warrior of the Light," a being who is "capable of understanding the miracle of life, of fighting to the last for something he believes in-and of hearing the bells that the waves set ringing on the seabed." Some of the aphorisms that follow have a specific spiritual source-Lao Tzu, Gandhi, Jesus and Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, among others, are quoted. Coelho provides general spiritual inspiration, but he also offers guidance in more mundane matters, explaining the specific motivations behind childish, immature behavior, cowardly moments, feelings of spiritual emptiness and the reluctance to change. Some of these passages are original, but others merely repackage common inspirational fodder. The volume preserves the basic spiritual tone of The Alchemist, but readers expecting comparable depth and substance will be disappointed. (Mar.) Forecast: The price of this tiny hardcover may be a stumbling block for buyers; a cheaper paperback might have been a better bet. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
