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Title: Retitle this book: In Praise of Ignorance
Review: A reader living in the first century B.C.E. might be excused for five-starring this novel, which ignores seminal knowledge humans have gained in the past two thousand years. It's selling the most absurd Ol' Time religious brew, laced with concepts like destiny and magical cures that are an insult to anyone at all familiar with 20th century physics, to anyone with a clue to a contemporary vision of this creation of billions of galaxies and multiverses in which we are embedded. I can weep -- either sitting or standing -- contemplating all the willfully ignorant people who consider this inspirational. It's the worst novel I've read in half a century, but then, it's the only Coelho novel I've ever read.
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