قرأت هذه الرواية وأنا فوق أعالي جبال الشفا في الطائف..

سألني أبي: ماذا تقرأين..

قلت له ..رواية عن فتاة تحاول الإنتحار ولا تنجح ثم تدخل مستشفى للأمراض العقلية..:):)

نظر إلي ولم يعلق..!


كما قالت أماني قبلاً:
رغم بساطة أسلوب كويلو إلا أنه كثيرا ما يترك لك بعض الفواكه لتلقطها طازجة من بين السطور..

في هذه الرواية لا تعلم وأنت تقرأ أي عالم هو الأكثر جنوناً..

عالم مستشفى المجانين ، أم العالم الخارجي الذي طفح فيه كل شيء مجنون..

يحاول الكاتب أن يفلسف الجنون عبر سطور الرواية في أنه فقط الإتيان بشيء مختلف، أو محاولة التفكير والحياة بشكل مغاير..

كل ما حولنا اعتدنا عليه لذلك غدا هو الطبيعي حتى لو كان منافيا للمنطق(دائماً ما أتذكر غطاريف الفرح وأقول لو لم نكن اعتدنا على هذا النوع من الصراخ كتعبير للفرح كنا اعتبرناه ضربا من الجنون)

:)

تدعوك الرواية أن تتخيل أنك ستموت غداً كما قررت فرونيكا،حين أرادت أن تنتحر

لكنها عندما فشلت ، وقبل أن يداهمها الموت مرة أخرى تقرر أن تعيش الحياة وتستمتع بكل قطرة فيها كما لم تفعل من قبل..

یادم میاد که این کتاب رو از کتابخونه گرفتم و نفر قبل از من، روی جلد و صفحات خالی کتاب، کل داستان زندگیش رو نوشته بود. احتمال میدم تنها چیزی که باعث شد کتاب رو تموم کنم همین بود.
{یه ستاره برای کتابه و اون یکی ستاره برای داستان اون شخص:)))))}

Paulo Coelho'nun yazım tarzına pek aşina olmadığımı itiraf etmeliyim. Bu arada, psikolojik içerikli kitaplardan uzaklaşmak isterken, farkında olmadan psikolojik içerikli bir kitap okumam ironisi hoşuma gitti. Kitaba dair spoiler vermeyeceğim, yazacağım tek şey, 2-3 karakter etrafında dönen hikayenin, karakterlerin iç dünya anlatımlarıyla uyumlu olduğu ve sıkıcı bir yöntemle tasvir edilmediği☺️

Nici pe departe la fel de impresionantă ca în liceu, atunci când am citit-o prima dată. Ceea ce era de așteptat. O carte destul de introspectivă, care analizează trăirile persoanelor cu probleme psihice, unele dintre ele surprinzătoare.

This was my first attempt with Paulo Coelho, and I have to say… It was not a pleasant one. I read this book a very long time ago, and I am only adding this review just so that I can get it out of my system whenever his name pops in my conversations with other bookworms.

I don’t recall much of the details however I do recall that it was depressing, agonizing to read, and just soooooooooo slow I had to toss it half way.

Do I regret it? No.

Will I attempt to read his other books? Also no.

دلیل اینکه کوئیلو یهو پرید وسط کتاب چی بود؟؟؟
از نظر من فیلم این کتاب خیلی بهتر از خودشه

من أفضل روايات باولو على الإطلاق !

عن نفسي أضعها في المرتبة الثالثة طبعاً .. بعد 11 دقيقة والخيميائي
فيرونيكا .. تجن وتدخل مستشفى المجانين .. تقرر في داخله الموت وتنتظر لحظاته ..

وصف الانتظار ووصف شعور الجنون لدى باولو لم أقرأ له مثيل ..

ما يميّز باولو عن غيره .. أنه لا يغرقك في وصف الأشياء .. الناس الأشكال الظاهر التي تستيطع أن تميزها بعينك المجردة ..

لا !

باولو يغرقك في وصف الشعور الإحساس أعمال القلب كلها .. تتحرك كل عضلات قلبك اليابسة والساكنة لحظة أن تقرأ لباولو .. تحس أنه إنسان يتلاعب بالشعور ويغير القناعات والتفكير ..

هنا كان وصف الانتظار أكثر شيء أثارني .. قشعر جسدي مرات ومرات .. وأحسست بالحزن بالحب بالهم بالكآبة بالفرح أحياناً كثيرة في حنايا الرواية ..

أهديتها للكثير ... والآن هي مهداة وأظنها ستعود لي قريباً لأهديها شخصاً آخر ..

أنصح بقرائتها " كعادة روايات باولو " بشدة
:)

ولكم فائق التقدير والاحترام

After reading the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, I decided that it was time to read another of his works.

This book was about Veronika and how she had decided to die, and attempted suicide. She awakens from her attempt to realize that the attempt was not successful, but that she had cause damage to her heart with the medication that she had tried to overdose on and that she would die within days.

Veronika uses her remaining time to reflect and through her own self-discovery she realizes that she should have been more open to feelings, and more importantly life itself.

As with the Alchemist, I read it with a pencil in hand. Below are several of the most poignant parts that I had underlined.

"But humans are all alike, she thought. We have replaced nearly all of our emotions with fear."

"Veronika did a her mother asked, sure that her mother had enough experience of life to understand reality. She finished her studies, went to university, got a good degree, but ended up working as a librarian. "I should have been crazier." But, as it undoubtedly happens with most people, she had found this out too late."

"No one should let themselves get used to anything."

"You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you."

"I do have a chance to live. Am I making good use of it?"

"I've got a lot to do, things that I have postponed for some future date, in the days when I thought life would last forever."

"Basically everything that happens in our life is our fault, and our fault alone.

"... because I need to run the risk of being alive."

"No. You're someone who is different, but that wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness."

"The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort."

"An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely."

"She would consider each day a miracle-which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences."


"You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you."

"I do have a chance to live. am I making good use of it?"

"I've got a lot to do, things that i have postponed for some future date, in the days when i thought life would last forever."

"Basically everything that happens in our life is our fault, and our fault alone.

"... because i need to run the risk of being alive."

"No. You're someone who is different, but that wants to be the same an everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness."

"The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort."

"An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely."

"She would consider each day a miracle-which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences."

"Herkesin ne olursa olsun hayatta kalmak için savaşım verdiği bir dünyada, ölmeye karar verenleri anlamak kolay mı?"

Kolay mı?

"Death frees from the fear of dying."

Or so she's convinced right before she decides to end her existence.
But fate has something entirely different set in store for her.

Waking up in a mental asylum a couple of days later, Veronika's told that she will get what she desired for: her death. The attempt at her own life has damaged her heart irrevocably and now her days are numbered. Just like that, her worst nightmare comes alive: waiting for death.

So what is it that made Veronika call quits? She's gorgeous, desirable, young, loved, and has her whole life ahead of her. What could possibly make her go against the natural order of things, which is to fight for survival whatever happens?

It's not her past, and it's not fear for her future either. It's something else entirely.

At the institution, she meets and befriends people from all walks of life: from old women who stay simply because they love it there to handsome Schizophrenics. Together, they argue sanity and what it is that makes life really worth living.

“You say they create their own reality," said Veronika, "but what is reality?”

Now that she's learning to live in the face of death, the thought of losing it all is something she can't even bear to think about. Music and love save her, yet her time-bomb heart won't stop its' taunting ...

Paulo Coelhos' books have always been a source of inspiration to me, acting as an instant pick-me-up, so I would suggest this to anybody who needs a healthy dose of hope and doesn't mind being enlightened with a bit of philosophy in between.

“She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane.”

Tôi không mê nổi "Nhà Giả Kim" nhưng vẫn quyết định cho Paulo Coelho một cơ hội nữa với cuốn sách này, và lại nhận về nỗi thất vọng. Một cuốn sách quá khiên cưỡng, và cũng như mọi khi, ông nhét nhiều triết lý vô miệng nhân vật mà đọc phát mệt, nhưng quan trọng là chúng chẳng có ý nghĩa gì, twist khúc cuối cũng thú vị nhưng vô lý cực kỳ, cũng như toàn bộ cuốn sách.

Tạm biệt bác Paulo Coelho, khóc xong rồi thôi chứ làm gì có poster mà cất :))). Ta xa nhau từ đây.

The best way to describe this book is: it makes no sense whatsoever. Of course, you may say: "Well, Xandra, Paulo Coelho is a profound man, a philosopher. Not everyone gets him."
Yeah, ok. I can't possibly argue with that.
Now...
Veronika is a young Slovenian woman who decides to kill herself because her youth is almost gone and the world is a fucked up place. What? Yes, she is Slovenian. What do you mean why? I don't know why! I guess it's more exotic this way. Shut up!
Ugh, I'm talking to myself again. Paulo Coelho is driving me nuts!
So, yeah, she overdoses on sleeping pills, but, unfortunately for us all , she doesn't end up six feet underground, but in a mental institution where she is told she only has one week to live. I actually laughed out loud at that. Who wouldn't?
You then follow her interactions with a bunch of uninteresting characters, a schizophrenic guy named Eduard being one of them. Actually, no. I'm not fair. Eduard is not a totally uninteresting guy. He's a little kinky and funny and creepy because he likes watching Veronika masturbate while she plays the piano. Didn't see that coming. I mean, Eduard never talks, he's basically a recluse, but after this scene these two weirdos inexplicably fall in love.
And this isn't even the best part. The best part is the ending. It turns out that Veronika's psychiatrist, a true example of professionalism, was lying the whole time. Veronika isn't sick, it was all a freakish experiment (you know, in the name of science) and of course it worked because now Veronika doesn't want to die anymore and she's gonna live happily ever after with her rich creepy boyfriend Eduard.
Great stuff. I'm waiting for "Veronika Decides to Die - a graphic novel".