"I just like to think of humanity as a spectrum that runs from Will Smith to Rush Limbaugh," he says. "Losing that kid just wafted into the Walden books smelling like waffles ... They're much, much worse."
We've covered vaguely spiritual self-help books before on the show, but The Alchemist is unique insofar as it attempts to wrap the broad platitudes of a The Secret up in a there-and-back-again adventure story. Please listen, as long as it fits with your Personal Legend.