Museums, Libraries, and Archives Society's "30 Books Every Adult Should Read Before They Die"

My one word review of the Alchemist: Trite.

It was not the worst book I have ever read, but it was certainly in the bottom one or two percent. I could list several thousand books that I have read that i would recommend over reading The Alchemist. Makes me wonder if the librarians that selected these books ever bothered to actually read any of them.