I first read Paulo alchemist and was really moved by it so with this hope of a new experience I picked the fifth mountain and it was a different experience from alchemist.
The book deals with simple truth of life suffering why we suffer and what are the cause of it and why we really need sufferings in life to keep on living .
There is not as much action as in alchemist but rather the flow of the story is a bit sluggish eventhough I did not read it as frivolously as I did alchemist cause the story line tends to be much sluggish and monotonous, even though paulo tried to give a deep message but failed to build a grand story around but still he rather kept to earth and made a simple but impressive story worth a read for every paulo fan.