This has got nothing to do with the book but more a review of a review. Sahdev T wrote that this author tried to copy the alchemist. That would open a whole new world of possibilities as this book was written 66 years BEFORE the alchemist.
If you prefer the alchemist, that is great, but to state that it was an attempted copy is blatantly ignorant to the fact that it was written 66 years earlier than the alchemist.
We Could say that perhaps the alchemist is a copy of this then.