Joseph's opinion about Alchemist before reading

The book alchemist seems very interesting. Cover of this book is very attractive, and makes readers to wonder what will happen in the story. I can see a shepherd who looks like a main character of this book, and a mysterious one-eyed person on the cover. By only looking at the cover, I can infer that this story is about a shepherd who wants to be a alchemist, a migical scientist. He will meet lots of people, and probably the background is Egypt because i see lots of Pyramids in the cover. On the back of the book, there are people's comment about this book. "A magical little volume" - San Francisco Chronicle I could infer that this book will be about some magical, mysterious fantasy. And this should be a great book! My friend also recommended this book, I love reading these kind of fantasy books, and I can hardly wait to read this book.