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Just re-read Isabel Allende's The House of Spirits for the first time in, um, some five years? Granted, her recent books have been... not very good, to put it mildly, but her old ones, especially this one, are still so wonderful and heartfelt. I really love this book, it's my favorite of hers, and it annoys me that she's been so harshly critisized by other Latinamerican authors, as if she wasn't worthy of being in their all boy's club.

No, she's not as good as Gabriel García Márquez. But you know what, Gabo? Your latest books haven't been that good, either. SIGH.

Criticism that is accurate, though, is about Paulo Coehlo. The man writes shit self-help books disguised as ~literature~, and it annoys me so much to see them be so acclaimed. BAH.

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Paulo Coehlo. The man writes shit self-help books disguised as ~literature~

I love you.

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Seconded. I read The Alchemist and thought, "Okay, fine, good message, but why is this so bloody adored and acclaimed, when it's not even well-written, and so simplistic that it hurts?" When I told a bookstore coworker that I must be a cynical brat because it didn't touch me all that much, she was astonished (like "But it's brilliant! How can you not love it?"). *shrug*

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Yeah, exactly - it's an ok self-help book, and I'd be fine with it being considered as such, but when people talk about it as the best book they've ever read or whatnot and how it's so ~deep~ and stuff? Er, no. Bullshit.

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I do not get the hype the man gets. Bah.

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Paulo Coehlo. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. so so bad.

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So, so bad. And sadly, so loved. WHYYYY.

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i cringed all the way through veronika decides to die.

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I love The House of Spirits soooo much. Did not know Allende got a hard time from other authors - that makes me a sad panda. I'm reading My Imagined Country right how (has been sitting on my bookcase for years but for some reason kept forgetting to read it) and really enjoying it so far.

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Yeah, apparently a lot of writers (pretty much all of them male, which totally doesn't sound dodgy at all, oh no) say she's just a best seller author and that she's not worthy of the acclaim she has. Yeah, some of her latest books have been sort of boring, but she's still such a good storyteller!

Oh, My Imagined Country is her autobiography, right? I kept meaning to read that...

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Ha. Upon hearing I love Le Petit Prince (yeah, I'm bad ass and read it in the original French), people tend to recommend The Alchemist to me. Hell, even Facebook "suggests" it to me frequently. Perhaps I should be glad that I didn't let it hop any of the other items on my reading list?

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I haven't read anything by her since I read Eva Luna for school, I think. Wait, I did read Ciudad de las Bestias when it came out. I don't love her but some of her books are really entertaining and they are better than you know Danielle Steel, hahaha.

I fucking hate Cohelo. He's like the literary world answer to Ricardo Arjona. *rolls eyes* I picked up The Alchemist one time and I couldn't read beyond the first page. Just, urgh.

Allende is up for the National Literary Award, AGAIN, and AGAIN there's controversy about her deserving it. On the one hand, people who think she writes crap and it's only a best selling phenomenon. On the other, the ones who think she was put the name of Chilean Literature out in the world and that should be awarded.

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