‘The First Phone Call from Heaven’ Book Review

When I started reading this book, my first thought was that the premise was an interesting one, but one that could very easily go wrong if not properly tackled and well written. Mitch Albom’s “The First Phone Call from Heaven” is an attempt to explore faith, hope, loss, and what motivates people to believe.

‘The Alchemist’ Book Review

I bought this book two years ago to see what all the hype was about. I mean it must be one hell of a book to win the Guinness World Record for most translated book by a living author, and sell more than sixty five million copies in more than a hundred and fifty countries. So I expected nothing short of brilliant, only to be met by extreme disappointment. ‘The Alchemist’, it turns out, is just another face of ‘The Secret’ dressed up as a fable/ philosophical novel. I might’ve enjoyed this had I read it when I was ten, what with all the talking to wind and journeying through the desert. But as a fully grown adult, I found it rather boring and not the tiniest bit intellectually stimulating.

‘The Secret’ Book Review

A relative gave me this book years ago insisting that it will ‘change my life’ and that it’s a ‘must read’. I absolutely regret the fact that I wasted precious time reading it.

It’s ridiculous how poorly written and highly delusional this book is. Just a bunch of stories of random people demonstrating ‘the power of the secret’ with no proper theme or conclusion. There is not a single cited ‘fact’ in that book and absolutely no credible sources to any of its claims.