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Title: preachy and unoriginal
Review: I have to say I was expecting a lot more from this book. The fact that Coelho basically lifted his plot wholesale from Durrenmatt's play "The Visit" was disappointing. At least he does acknowledge it in the beginning, but this doesn't change the fact that, having read Durrenmatt's play first, Coelho didn't really accomplish anything Duerrenmatt didn't already do, in a much less preachy and more innovative way. The characters are stick figures which get pushed around and serve as excuses for long-winded passages on the problem of good and evil, passages which read more like watered down mass-market self-help than a novel. There's no character development to speak of, and the "stranger comes to idyllic middle-of-nowhere town and shakes things up" plot-line has been done, oh, a few times I think. If you find the content or theme interesting, then just go read Durrenmatt's "The Visit" or see it performed somewhere. College students always love to do it. Skip this book.
