i so badly wanted to like this book, but i couldn't bring myself to do so. this book is deeply depressing on its view of love and entirely different from how i perceive love. to summarize this book, it is as if to say "falling in love" with many women the guy met is so easy. and to make love to whomever he met or "fell in love" with, in my world, i call that something that starts with F. nobody falls in love so often too many times. nobody does. if they do, it's just lust throbbing in their genitals. so they went traveling, Pilar and the man. they went to a church, prayed. And they made love at the hotel.. the very next day, he left her. Wow. and sorry, i couldn't see this book like how anyone else sees it. maybe, making love is so easy this days. maybe it is something so loose someone could do just to anyone... in the Bible, making love is supposed to be something beautiful created between a husband and a wife. and if you make love to anyone randomly, please don't call it making love. it's devaluing the meaning entirely. same as a prostitute can't make love to different men every night. forgive me, but to say spirituality and love in this book changes people's life, it didn't do to me because what i have experienced in life is more than what this book could hold.

A very, intense, emotional read. A deviation from Cuelho's usual themes in his books.

This book wasn't even close to as good as The Alchemist, and it seems as though it was translated really poorly too. If I could read Portugese I would try it, but since I'm limited to English or Spanish, I think I'm done with trying to make this book better than my original reaction deemed it.

It wasn't a very cohesive story, the whole "feminine face of God" thing was cool, but fairly random and not well elaborated, the "love story" was sappy and pathetic.

It is a super short book, especially when considering the size of the font and the margins, and yet I felt like I was creeping through it. I finished it, as other reviewers have mentioned, solely for the sake of finishing it. Why do we do this to ourselves? Why can't I be more like Trish and just let sucky books go without having to finish them?

Anyway, save yourself from the self-flagellation that will come when you don't feel like finishing it, and don't even start it.

يا الله ! من أجمل ما قرأت على الإطلاق

This is another book of Coelho which couldn't give me satisfaction as what The Alchemist does. I learn a lot from The Alchemist.

However, it still a nice one.
It gives proof that Coelho has a deep knowledge and skills about diverse religions, although it is clear that that He has more about Christianity. However, it might be hard for those non-Christianity readers when they read this book (this is only a guess).

Above all, I do believe that GOD has feminine face. Why I can say that? Well, we are, humans, were created through GOD's image. And I believe that each of us has both, feminine and masculine factors. It just a matter of in what context we put ourselves.

I love the way Coelho says in this book, that every religions put different names for GOD. Thus, every religion are good. Unfortunately, I still can't find the right quotation of it.

Last, I do feel grateful for Coelho. He reminds me to keep on believing GOD's will in my life. To not easily give up, since there always be a rainbow after rain...

الرسالة التي خلف الرواية هي رسالة روحانية من الدرجة الأولى، عملية الغوص في ذات و محاولة اكتشاف القارات المهجورة داخلها، رواية عن تأثير الحب في نفوس و كيف أنه قد يكون نقطة بداية التغيير، رواية عن الإيمان و سكينة التي تلاحقه، لكن للأسف أسلوب باولو كويلو الجاف شعرت كأني بصدد قراءة كتاب عن الوعظ الديني، لمست المشاعر كانت غائبة.

داستان هفت روز از زندگی دختری به نام پیلار که با پذیرفتن دعوت یک کنفرانس از طرف دوست دوران کودکی اش از زندگی روزمره و تکراری خودش خارج میشه و زندگی تازه ای رو شروع میکنه که سرشار از ناشناخته هاست

داستان اصلی کتاب زیادی کلیشه ای و خسته کننده بود اما جنبه ای از کتاب که برای من از جذابیت ویژه ای برخوردار بود قسمتیه که به ساختار دو قطبی خدواند و جنبه های مادینه ی او پرداخته . اینکه برخلاف باور بسیاری از مذاهب ، خداوند همزمان هم مرد هست و هم زن ، و نه فقط مرد
در این ساختار دو قطبی ، قطب مادرانه و مادینه پرورش دهنده ی عالم رویاست و به جنبه های فلسفی از قبیل عشق و هنر و لذت می پردازد و در مقابل قطب پدرانه یا نرینه که اصولا عملگراست به جنبه های تفکر و منطق گرایش دارد

این اولین کتاب از سه گانه ی"در روز هفتم" هست که توسط كوئيلو نوشته شده و به نظرم نسبت به موضوع و زمان نوشته شدنش زیاد هم کتاب بدی نبود