This is a repeat article originally posted on 5/17/08. I do not necessarily reflect the same views and beliefs today as I did back when I originally wrote this piece.
RATING: 5 out of 5
Can you imagine that? It has been just over a month since my last post, and I have already finished a book that I haven't even planned yet on reading a month ago. Well it took me a while to read this book. Usually, for Coelho novels, I can finish them in one afternoon.
Veronika Decides to Die.....
You know how some people intentionally put you to misery, leave you in agony, increase your anxiety, and all that... And then in the end, you find out, it was all a twist; a modus operandi, maybe a prank. You are actually richer than you are, and you have 15 billion pesos in the bank, left by your great grandmother who intentionally wrote in her will that her first great grandson (or granddaughter) shall inherit all her riches, no one else.
And so, can you imagine how you feel this very moment?
I loved Veronika Decides to Die because I met some people with very interesting character and very interesting lives, although I never had that interest because it is easy to judge a book by its cover... And secondly, because Paulo Coelho is just simply smart. He got me again in this novel.
Coelho is one author who writes novels which I want to finish. You cannot predict at all (or maybe you could but... you could get so much into the story!) the ending or what will happen next, you'll meet fascinating people... It helps that Coelho novels are short. Haha.
While By the River Piedra was a little more predictable... And The Five People You Meet In Heaven was very predictable (not even halfway through the book) except for a few details and well, yeah, it's got a message, but its characters were less interesting... Hey, it's hard to write a novel after all!
Veronika Decides to Die is a story you should read. It's one hell of a ride. It's a great story. Not your usual bacon & eggs, but it is cooked to perfection. The scenes and the characters are very vivid, as By the River Piedra and most other Coelho novels offer. Or, I might not have read that much yet. Did I tell you that I have something to say about Paulo Coelho in thoughts?
Next in Line (for reading): Eleven Minutes (latest novel by Paulo Coelho)
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5 people is by mitch albom.
ReplyDeleteloved eleven minutes. :)
yup, 5 people is by mitch albom. i guess that wasn't very clear in my post, so thanks for pointing that out, Chiclets. i loved his first book, tuesdays with morrie. 5 people was great story telling, but like i said, it's just like an old story (that you knew already), re-told. didn't impress me. well, thumbs up to mitch albom for writing those novels, (and like i said, it is so not easy to do that) but paulo coelho is just on another whole level. i loved eleven minutes too. i think i've reviewed that also. watch out for the re-post. :-)
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