Scan barcode
sophie_132's review against another edition
1.0
Deludente e noioso. Mi ha deluso sotto due aspetti: quello stilistico e di struttura della trama, e quello di contenuto. Partendo dal contenuto, non è tanto il fatto che la protagonista sia odiosa e pazza a renderlo un brutto libro, ma il fatto che non si riesce a capire per quale motivo faccia determinate azioni. Non si entra nelle profondità dell'animo umano, dunque certe scelte o pensieri risultano quasi ridicoli e adolescenziali se non ci si interroga sul significato delle azioni della protagonista del romanzo. Non c'è alcun approfondimento psicologico. Si segue il suo flusso di ragionamenti un po' deliranti riguardo gli eventi vissuti ogni tanto inframmezzati da pensieri su argomenti che non c'entrano nulla con la narrazioni. Si vuole fare un minestrone di riflessioni a caso su qualsiasi cosa: che può essere una critica abbastanza semplicistica sulla società svizzera, riflessioni su Dio, l'amore e i malesseri psicologici. Tutto stona e risulta senza un filo logico.
A livello stilistico la prosa non mi sembra nulla di eccezionale e la costruzione dei paragrafi sembra confusionaria.
Magari darò un'altra possibilità a Coelho data la sua grande fama, sperando sia questo solo un incidente di percorso.
A livello stilistico la prosa non mi sembra nulla di eccezionale e la costruzione dei paragrafi sembra confusionaria.
Magari darò un'altra possibilità a Coelho data la sua grande fama, sperando sia questo solo un incidente di percorso.
katharinchen's review against another edition
3.0
Auch wenn ich kein großer Fan von der fundamentalen Handlung bin, ist das Ende und die zwischengelegten "philosophischen" Kapitel schön verfasst :´)
haarlss's review against another edition
2.0
a really long justification of cheating? well written though
marloug's review against another edition
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
avid_read's review against another edition
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
its_patri's review against another edition
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
nicholegarza's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.0
More evidence for the case that men just cannot seem to write women
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual content
m3lz's review against another edition
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
Seeeeehr viele Fragezeichen und das für ein 320-Seiten-Seelenstriptease. :(
Aufgrund der Bekanntheit des Autors Paul Coelho waren meine Erwartungen ziemlich hoch. Beim Lesen jedoch ist mir aufgefallen, dass diesem Buch jegliche Tiefgründigkeit fehlt und stattdessen geradezu trotzt vor Stereotypen und bloß ein Porträt des Folgenden darstellt: „Frauen wollen das, was sie nicht kriegen“. Zwar versucht der Autor den Anschein von Tiefgründigkeit zu verleihen, indem er versucht Referenzen herzustellen wie bspw. zu Frankenstein, Bibelauszüge oder dem Mittelalter (Eros/Psyche war ok.), aber es bleibt völlig unauthentisch wie (leider) Vieles in diesem Werk.
Versuche, die Hauptdarstellerin nachzuvollziehen und ihrem Gedankengang zu folgen, scheitern. Ihre Art: verabscheuend, uninteressant, selbstverliebt. Ich habe zu keinem Zeitpunkt irgendeine Form der Empathie verspüren können - maximal noch für den Ehemann, der aber auch irgendwie weird ist.
Das Einzige, was dieses Buch bewirkt hat, ist, dass ich den Zusammenhang zwischen Coelho und der Schweiz gegoogelt habe (Er's Wahlschweizer). Die andauernden Genf-Motive haben nichts zu der Geschichte beigetragen, sondern nur mehr abgefuckt. Kampf.
Aufgrund der Bekanntheit des Autors Paul Coelho waren meine Erwartungen ziemlich hoch. Beim Lesen jedoch ist mir aufgefallen, dass diesem Buch jegliche Tiefgründigkeit fehlt und stattdessen geradezu trotzt vor Stereotypen und bloß ein Porträt des Folgenden darstellt: „Frauen wollen das, was sie nicht kriegen“. Zwar versucht der Autor den Anschein von Tiefgründigkeit zu verleihen, indem er versucht Referenzen herzustellen wie bspw. zu Frankenstein, Bibelauszüge oder dem Mittelalter (Eros/Psyche war ok.), aber es bleibt völlig unauthentisch wie (leider) Vieles in diesem Werk.
Versuche, die Hauptdarstellerin nachzuvollziehen und ihrem Gedankengang zu folgen, scheitern. Ihre Art: verabscheuend, uninteressant, selbstverliebt. Ich habe zu keinem Zeitpunkt irgendeine Form der Empathie verspüren können - maximal noch für den Ehemann, der aber auch irgendwie weird ist.
Das Einzige, was dieses Buch bewirkt hat, ist, dass ich den Zusammenhang zwischen Coelho und der Schweiz gegoogelt habe (Er's Wahlschweizer). Die andauernden Genf-Motive haben nichts zu der Geschichte beigetragen, sondern nur mehr abgefuckt. Kampf.
redamahmoud's review against another edition
3.0
Some people find their life so romantic, easy, and strong. They glide effortlessly life's ups and downs. Definitively, these people are extremely lucky and everyone likes to spend great time learning from them, unfortunately, they are so rare!
Linda was not one of these people, a Swiss women in her thirties, married with three children, who appears to be suffering from a quarter life crisis. As she questions her everyday life and the world and asks "is this it? She begins to look for her real and different life with someone else who feels her and loves her as she deserves. She admits that she has a perfect family as well her beauty, but she misses the romantic touch and the living adventure.
Additionally, she has an interesting job as a journalist. Notwithstanding, all these privileges Linda has, she feels bored and restless. Her life lacks a necessary touch which is LOVE. She needs the honour of having love with the romantic touch with the one she wants or seeks. As, Richard Templar, said in his book: The Rules of Life, make sure your love making is making love. It is not all about adultery of the sexual story or gestures they have. No.
As, Paulo Coelho says: When we love someone, we're not satisfied with knowing only the person's soul—we also want to "understand" the person's body. I cannot agree more the word "understand the person's body; as no one can understand the desire or motives of the other unless he is loving the else.
I am not defending Linda's adventure or her method and I know it is difficult to have sympathy with her, especially due to her perfect life. But the bright side is she returned by her own satisfaction and readiness to start a new life or a new era with her old family. She reaches certainty after severe doubt.
The novel will be underestimated if it is judged as just a story of adultery; it calls against being strange with our partner and to seek true love and to know: to love abundantly is to live abundantly. Learn to love better is one of the most important lessons the novel tackles. It all about true love. It is all about rediscovering ourselves and the privileges we already have, to learn how to gain true happiness. Life is not a long vacation, but a constant learning process.
IT WORTHS READING!!
Linda was not one of these people, a Swiss women in her thirties, married with three children, who appears to be suffering from a quarter life crisis. As she questions her everyday life and the world and asks "is this it? She begins to look for her real and different life with someone else who feels her and loves her as she deserves. She admits that she has a perfect family as well her beauty, but she misses the romantic touch and the living adventure.
Additionally, she has an interesting job as a journalist. Notwithstanding, all these privileges Linda has, she feels bored and restless. Her life lacks a necessary touch which is LOVE. She needs the honour of having love with the romantic touch with the one she wants or seeks. As, Richard Templar, said in his book: The Rules of Life, make sure your love making is making love. It is not all about adultery of the sexual story or gestures they have. No.
As, Paulo Coelho says: When we love someone, we're not satisfied with knowing only the person's soul—we also want to "understand" the person's body. I cannot agree more the word "understand the person's body; as no one can understand the desire or motives of the other unless he is loving the else.
I am not defending Linda's adventure or her method and I know it is difficult to have sympathy with her, especially due to her perfect life. But the bright side is she returned by her own satisfaction and readiness to start a new life or a new era with her old family. She reaches certainty after severe doubt.
The novel will be underestimated if it is judged as just a story of adultery; it calls against being strange with our partner and to seek true love and to know: to love abundantly is to live abundantly. Learn to love better is one of the most important lessons the novel tackles. It all about true love. It is all about rediscovering ourselves and the privileges we already have, to learn how to gain true happiness. Life is not a long vacation, but a constant learning process.
IT WORTHS READING!!
murielreads's review against another edition
Es lo más horrible que leí en el año y quizás en mí vida. Quiero que Coelho me devuelva el tiempo desperdiciado leyendo estas horrendas 87 páginas (que fue todo lo que pude aguantar) y una carta de disculpas escrita a mano. Por favor no lo lean, hay mejores libros con los cuáles perder el tiempo.