PanThe AV ClubAt 184 tiny pages it is roughly as illuminating and informative as a skim through Hari’s Wikipedia page ... the latest of Coelho’s surface-level narratives to be stitched over with “insights” that only sound profound if you’re not really paying attention ... For an historically beguiling enigma, his Hari is painfully devoid of interest ... Ultimately the writing is just lazy, the book’s entire theme an idea that Coelho didn’t bother to flesh out with research or, evidently, passion. His broad strokes may suit a fable like The Alchemist, but for this—a real life, one more complex and consequential than most—it is utterly, almost insultingly, inadequate.
