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DrugStars

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DrugStars – Giving by Taking “Imagine if every dose of medicine taken worldwide generated a...

Paige (428 KP) rated The Alchemist in Books

Aug 19, 2017

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho | 1993 | Fiction & Poetry

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A book for a particular audience

If someone tells me they love this book, I pretty immediately assume that they don't read for pleasure. This book was really made for people who think reading is like medicine, and it strives to be the best-tasting medicine. It is short, vaguely inspirational, uses simple language, and tailored to make you feel wiser after reading it.

In this way, the book is a success.

For readers who are more well-read, all this comes across as a not unpleasant, but not groundbreaking attempt at making capital L literature. It kind of drones, and seems a bit twee and trite.

If you think of books as vitamins (good for you, but a pain to procure and consume) then this book is the most delicious version of that.

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Indian Spa: Ayurveda Yoga Wellness Beauty

Kim Inglis and Luca Invernizzi Tettoni

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Wellness in mind and body as well as spiritual wellness is becoming an essential awareness in...

David McK (3562 KP) rated Elevation (2024) in Movies

Mar 9, 2025 (Updated Mar 9, 2025)

2024 post-apocalyptic action movie, that comes across as a hybrid of Aliens and (maybe) "A Quiet Place", and that stars Anthony Mackie in a post-Falcon, pre-Captain America (movie) role alongside Morena Baccarin and set in a not-too-distant future where creatures have emerged from underground, have more or less wiped out mankind yet will not - for some unknown reason - ever travel above a certain elevation.

With his son sick and running out of life-saving medicine, Mackie's character Will resolves to travel 'below the line' to the nearest hospital, alongside his now-deceased wife's best friend and the woman whom he blames for said wife's death, in an attempt to procure more medicine and return back home with the same.

Film has a mid-credit scene, that sets up where the sequel (if it comes!) will go!