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Title: The Fifth Mountain by Paulo Coelho ISBN: 0-06-093013-6 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.13 (39 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not his best effort
Comment: I loved the Alchemist and adored the Pilgrimage. I am a huge Coehlo fan and an adherent of his "New Age" beliefs. That said, this book is alright. It's a simple tale and easily read like his other books, but this one gets sappy and fizzles out half way through.
From reading the other reviews I don't think people get that THIS IS NOT THE TRUE STORY OF ELIJAH. In the Bible E. goes to King Ahab of Canaan and warns there will be a drought if Ahab doesn't stop worshipping the false idols of Queen Jezebel's Phoenician religion. Ahab doesn't listen. E. escapes to the desert, flees to Zarapeth (Akbar), stays w/ the widow, resurrects her son, the end... Well not the end b/c in the Bible, E goes back to Canaan 3 yrs later to overthrow Jezebel. In the bible, nothing more is said about his life in Zarapeth/Akbar. In The Fifth Mountain, E. spends many, many years in Akbar. He lives with the widow, falls in love, the city is destroyed, rebuilt and he becomes governor.
This story is all over the place. One example: after E. and the widow have professed their love, she tells Elijah that she loved him from the moment she laid eyes on him. Even though when her son died (but before E. resurrected him) she has him arrested for cursing the house. Their love story is very dissapointing. They are afraid for yrs., they have a good day or so, then she dies.
Throughout there is a power struggle btwn the gods of the Fifth Mt (the Phonecians gods) and Elijah's judaism. There is another struggle: the governor & Elijah vs. the evil High Priest who wants everyone to die so that the alphabet doesn't spread. (no, I am not making this up). The HP wins and the city is destroyed in a war. Then Elijah rebuilds the city, he teaches the inhabitants who are left to write (the evil priest loses after all), he becomes the governor, he conducts a cheesy renaming ceremony and calls himself 'Liberation'... then god gives him permission to go back to Canaan (where he will supposedly complete his biblical task and bring back the right religion)
It is hard to take this seriously. I can't believe Coehlo wrote this. The opening of the story is wonderful. It fails when he errs from the bible's story. I think he had a super idea--to tell the missing story of what Elijah did in exile, but he doesn't do it well.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Mountain of choices
Comment: A beautiful book even though the style of writing is not always easy.
The prophet Elijah is tried by the Lord. He has to leave Israel and ends up in the town of Sarefat, which is called Akbar by its inhabitants. there he is taken into the house of a widow, but he is only accepted by the inhabitants after he has resurrected her little son. But he remains the outsider, the one to blame in case of adversities. And in the meantime Elijah fights his own fight with the Lord. One day the twon is destroyed by the Assyrians and the widow, the woman Elijah loves, also dies. And then Alijah's true power is emerging: together with the old aged, the widows and the orphans he rebuilds Akbar.
This is a novel about choices that people (have to or can) make in their lives: everybody has the moral duty to make the best of his or her life, even when the choices may sometimes be painful.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of his best
Comment: Paulo Coelho's book The Fifth Mountain will captivate your attention and warm your heart. It is probably my favorite of his books, along with By The River Piedra, I Sat Down and Wept. Coelho's simple yet hauntingly beautiful words will entice you to read all his other books. I've got two more books I have to read, The Pilgrimage and The Devil and Miss Prym. I can't wait until April 1st, when 11 Minutes is supposed to come out in the U.S. Let's hope for tons more from this author...I know I'll never get sick of him! The only thing that I don't like is the fact that I can't get some of his books available in English and that it took me forever to get a copy of The Devil and Miss Prym. That book, you can only get it used in the U.S., or if you're very lucky like I did, can find it new at a used book store...otherwise you have to order a new copy from the U.K., like I did to get the paperback.
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Title: The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho ISBN: 006251279X Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho ISBN: 0060977264 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 07 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Valkyries by Paulo Coelho ISBN: 0062513346 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 11 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Warrior of the Light : A Manual by Paulo Coelho ISBN: 0060527978 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 18 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho ISBN: 0060955775 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 08 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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