Just for the sake of having some balance in the opinions here (I'm not really willing to go into any flame war) I'd like to state that in my opinion Paulo Coehl

Just for the sake of having some balance in the opinions here (I'm not really willing to go into any flame war) I'd like to state that in my opinion Paulo Coehlo is a bad writer, by which I mean that a) he has a poor style of writing, b) his books don't provide any serious value for the reader. To end on a positive note I recommend anyone to read "Master & Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov, a masterpiece that for some reasons isn't as popular as it should be (in the western world at least).