فيرونكا تقرر ان تموت - باولو كويلو -
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الناس لايتعلمون اي شيء يخبرهم به الاخرون عليهم ان يتعلموا ذلك بانفسهم
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افضل طريقة لتجنب المشاكل هي ان تشرك الاخرين بذلك
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الوظيفة الوحيدة المفيدة لربطة العنق انها تخدم احساسا بالشعور بالتحرر عند عودتك للمنزل وتخلعها تشعر كانك حررت نفسك من شيء ما رغم انك لاتعرف ماهو على وجه التحديد
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وحدهم الابطال والمجانين لايخافون الحياة او الموت ولايبالون بالخطر وسوف يمضون قدما بالرغم مما يقوله الاخري More...

Veronika is a 24 year old Slovenian woman who one day decides to kill herself, apparently because (1) "everything in her life was the same and, once her youth was gone, it would be downhill all the way" and (2) everything is wrong with the world and she feels powerless to make things right. After she takes an overdose of sleeping pills, Veronika wakes up in a mental asylum and the remainder of the book is, basically, a series of interactions between Veronika and a number of the inhabitants of th More...

Pretty, single, 24-year-old Veronika decides to die for two reasons, both of them phony: one, because she realizes she will one day be old; and two, because a lot of things are wrong in this world. She then takes a lot of sleeping pills. While waiting to die, as if she's waiting for her cat to finish drinking its milk, Veronika decides to read a magazine and then write to the editor of that magazine. Which made the scene cartoonish.

This rare combination of phoniness and cartoonishness gelled and More...

Fantastic read! Awesome! I could not put the book down!

“Veronika Decides to Die” – just read the title again….decides to die…
How many times have you said to yourself, at least I have, “Ahh…I don’t care, I don’t really want to live anymore”, without even thinking about the meaning of it.

So Veronika said the same thing and decided to do something about it. Why?
Nothing bad had happened to Veronika, she was beautiful, had a regular life…very ordinary though ... but normal
She decided that it was not More...

واحدة من اقرب الروايات الي قلبي

مع انها مغرقة في الحزن بشدة

من اول البداية واختيار فيرونيكا
للانتحار وناجتها
والمعاملة
الجافة في المستشفي
والنظرات اللي بتشوفها في الناس
من نوعية
يا عيني يا حبيبتي
و عملتي في نفسك ليه

علاقتها بالبيانو
وباقي المرض

معرفش الفيلم اللي اتعمل ايه موقفه من الرواية

بس الرواية من الافضل للرائع باولو

تقراء في كوب شراب دافئ
في الشتاء
هيفرق

:)

رواية غير اعتيادية أبدًا! نصحني بها أحد الأصدقاء
أول صفحات الرواية تبدأ بمشهد فتاة جميلة، لاينقصها من الحياة شيء.. تنتحر!
لتصحو فجأة وتجد نفسها في مستشفى للأمراض العقلية!!
رواية تتحدث عن الجنون بمعناه الغير اعتيادي.. رواية من الممكن أن أقول بعدها أننا جميعًا أو أغلبنا مجانين بطريقة أو أخرى!
يوجد بها بعض التجاوزات الجنسية، بمعنى أنني لن أسمح لأختي الصغيرة بقرائتها! :\
أبدع باولو كويلهو صراحة، أعجبتني بشدة أكثر من رواية الخيميائي التي تبدو اعتيادية جدًا من نظري..
أقتبس لكم منها قليلًلا:
"المجانين دائمًا More...

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, I might add. Not everyone gets him."
Yeah, ok. 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!
God, I'm talking More...

Saat Asa Tak Lagi Ada

Asa, Harapan, Impian, Angan-angan, atau apapun namanya, selalu ada di benak semua orang. Setiap kejadian yang menimpa seseorang, bisa jadi menstimulasi pikiran orang tersebut untuk mempunyai asa. Dan semua orang berhak untuk itu. Bagaimana seseorang menyikapi asa tersebut, semua ada ditangannya. Mau diwujudkan atau tidak, terserah yang bersangkutan.

Saat Sang Hidup mengajak saya bergulat melawan maut, saya dihadapi oleh dua pilihan. Pertama, menyerah pada keadaan, untuk kemud More...

I actually was glancing through a book shop and when suddenly this book caught my attention. I 've previously read The Alchemist and i thoroughly enjoyed it. But veronica was pretty awesome. In a sense, it was the truth of the western world and will be applicable to the eastern world which is actually involved all the time in copying the west. And from a very depressed state, with no great ambitions or desire in everyday life, veronica decides that life is not worthy of living and after a failed More...

Buku Gila berisi Orang-orang Gila di Rumah Sakit Gila dengan Dokter Gila yang punya Ide-ide Sangat Gila....waaaaa...semoga yang baca gak ikutan Gila....hehehehe.

Perkenalan Pertama dengan Paulo Coelho....setengah dipaksa karena ini buku minjam dari Jeng Palsay yang baik hati, cantik dan tidak sombong...hehehe, dengan niat kuat untuk mengembalikan jadi buku ini cukup selesai dalam 2 hari saja...Fiuuuuhhhh...*ngelap keringat di kening* ( Waktu pinjam dari Kopdar di Mbah Jingkrak...dibawa susah paya More...

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 ويغ More...

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 shou More...

3.5 Estrellitas(;
Una muy buena historia.
Su principal reflexion es; Darle el valor a la vida(':
Entender que hagas lo que hagas, desde el punto de vista de alguien; ESTAS LOCO! pero, asi es como debes vivir:D
Es una buena historia, sin embargo yo tengo un grave problema con Coelho!
Es demasiado explicito! si va a hablar de una enfermedad, se toma 10 paginas para hablarnos de esa enfermedad, con este libro creo que ya me gradue en psicologia, de tanta informacion medica que te da ._.
Pensaba solame More...

this shitty, whiny book in a nutshell, which is all it deserves: a simple, trite, self-indulgent allegory that poorly contemplates the similarities between genius and insanity

i think this is the worst passage i've read so far:

Vitriol was a toxic substance whose symptoms he had identified in his conversations with the men and women he had met. Now he was writing a thesis on the subject, which he would submit to the Slovenian Academy of Sciences for its scrutiny. It was the most important step in

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At about 50 pages in, it's a little frightening how much I've identified with Veronika thus far, how much I understand her rationale for wanting to die. She can only see one path unfolding for herself, and it's one she can't stomach. I get that. But unlike Veronika I haven't given up hope that my path may yet fork off in unexpected and exciting directions.

I also read and think there must be a certain kind of comfort in going truly insane. Not this garden-variety neurosis I experience, but really More...

I had heard so many things about Paul Coelho that I had to find out for myself what he was like. The reviewers all seemed to hate him, but a couple of our au pairs said he was great.

Well, I read Veronika Decides to Die, and in fact I quite enjoyed it! But I also thought it would be wise to quit while I was ahead.

فيرونيكا قررت الموت لأنها لم تستطع الاعتياد على حياه أشبة بجسد ميت .... سئمت حياة اعتيادية ... كل شىء تفعلة فيها كما ينبغى أن يكون وليس كما تريد هى أن يكون ... سئمت الروتينيه وتشابة الأيام بحيث لا تسطع التمييز بينهم

سخيف أن تعيش الحياه كلها كأنها يوم واحد .... ورائع أن تعيش كل يوم وكأنه اليوم الأخير

اشتاقت فيرونيكا لمغامرة حتى وان كانت مغامرة الموت فهى أفضل من حياة شبيهه بالموت .... فيرونيكا علمتنى قيمة الحياة ... قيمة أن تحيا كما تريد لا كما يراد لك .... قيمة أن تكون نفسك لا أحد بعيد عنك تمام الب More...

إلى أي مدى حياتنا و وجودنا مرتبِطيْن بالآخرين؟ “يُناضِل الناس من أجل البقاء على قيْدِ الحياة، لا من أجل الانتحار”.

“تعثّرت، ثم سقَطت أرضاً؛ فأحسّت بضربة قاسية تلطم وجهها. و ظلّت تجهد لتتنفّس، لكن الهواء أبى دخول روحها. و الأسوأ من ذلك أنّ الموت لم يلاقِها. كانت تعي تماماً مايجري من حولها؛ فما يزال بمقدورها رؤية الألوان و الأشكال، لكن صعُبَ عليها التقاط كلمات الآخرين؛ فبدَت الصرخات و عبارات الدهشة بعيدة بعيدة، كما لو أنها تجيء من عالمٍ آخر. و بقِيَ كل شيء آخر واقعياً. فالهواء لا يدخل رئتيها و يُطي More...

I am not sure whether among Paulo Coelho’s goals in writing ‘Veronika decides to die’ was to not only inform the readers of the exact location of Ljubljana, Slovenia but also to stir interest in its political circumstances in and around the year 1997 . If it was, it is safe to say that , that particular mission is accomplished as far as I am concerned. This book was first published in the year 2000 (ISBN # 0-06- 0I9612-2). The central theme of the book, contrary to what its title suggests is, li More...

Belajar Menghargai Hidup

Berapakah nilai dari sebuah hidup? Seorang pasien di sebuah rumah sakit, yang masih ingin hidup lebih lama, terpaksa harus dibantu dengan alat pernafasan yang terhubung ke tabung oksigen karena dia kesulitan untuk bernafas. Bernafas! Manusia yang hidup ditandai dengan bernafas, entah itu bernafas secara alami ataupun dengan bantuan alat-alat pernafasan. Bernafas berarti menghidup udara, menghirup oksigen. Harga satu tabung oksigen cukup mahal. Bisa dibayangkan, berapa rat More...

Buku ini terbitan KPG, dan karena dibeli lewat internet dapat diskon 15% deh. Penerjemahnya Lina Jusuf, dan hasil kerjanya oke juga, bikin buku ini enak dibaca. Gak terlalu tebal lho, hanya 258 halaman, tapi buku ini padat dan sangat bermakna, sampe-sampe keputusan gw untuk ga baca lagi karya Coelho (gara-gara baca The Alchemist yang menurut gw ga oke) berubah, dan gw putuskan beli bukunya yang lain, The Zahir.

Adalah Veronika yang memutuskan untuk mati pada 11 November 1997 dengan cara menelan More...

My first experience with Coelho was in reading the novel "The Alchemist." I found that I did not agree with the general consensus that the book was amazing but instead found it to be quite preachy and a little contrived. Granted, I did cut Coehlo some slack as I realized I went into reading the book expecting it's grandiosity to change my life. My friend Cassie was the only person I know who agreed with me on "The Alchemist" and in hearing her recommendation to read "Veronika Decides to Die", I More...

Things that I can get from “Veronika Memutuskan Mati”

By Paulo Coelho



1 Juli 2005

# Hidup adalah perjuangan, seni dalam hidup adalah berjuang, isi setiap waktu dengan kegiatan…sesungguhnya membuang-buang waktu dan kemalasan adalah suatu kekalahan…membuat kita tergilas dinamika kehidupan.



# Lakukan banyak hal dalam hidup, cobalah hal-hal baru yang belum pernah kita lakukan…Nikmati hidupmu.



# Hidup adalah pilihan…tulis sendiri sejarahmu…Penyebab hari-harimu terlihat sama karena dirimu sendirilah yang m More...

I've been reading through Paulo Coelho's books. The writing I find simple and honest in tone that is just slightly new-agey. However, at times his works surprise me with the occasional blunt phrasing.

In this particular novel, the theme is that of how people with unique perspectives are seen as crazy by the majority who do not understand them. The protagonist, a young woman named Veronika, attempts to kill herself because she just doesn't see life getting any more interesting. She doesn't succee More...

I totally, completely and utterly fail to understand this book. However, as typically befalls me when I read a book by Paolo Coelho, I seem to recall a moment about four-fifths of the way to the end when I had an epiphanic moment - when I realised that although I had loathed the book from the start until that exact sentence, I suddenly understood it and could comprehend and possibly even accept (though grudgingly) that other people could like it and that it could possibly qualify as a Good Book. More...

I bought this book because I'd heard so many positive things about The Alchemist. For some reason, when I hear too much praise for a book, I'll circle it before actually reading it. Maybe pick up one or two of the author's other books first to get a better idea of what I'm getting myself into. It helps me approach the book I really want to read with more realistic expectations, and, I think, reduces my chances of being unfairly disappointed.

Anyway, so I picked this one up and wasn't very impres More...

Short version
Big disappointment.

The plot (and the title) sounded so great. The book, however, turned out to be pretty uninteresting. Somehow the hazy image of Paulo Coelho as a wise and inspiring person has wedged its way into my subconscious. Now, evaluating his writing in conscious thought, I find him to be a sort of modern charlatan.





Long version

Big disappointment.

The plot (and the title) sounded so great. The book, however, turned out to be pretty uninteresting. Somehow the hazy image of Paul More...

In the arms of hope, lay the cure of her hidden destructive tendencies.

In my view this was exactly the lesson coded in Veronika decides to die and once again Sir Coelho managed to make me realize another subtle truth of life.

The book starts with Veronika deciding to die, reason? Her senses have ceased to feel anything. Veronika is overwhelmed by a silence that she thinks is normal to feel for a person like her. She believes that for some reason she is not like others as the hopelessness of the More...

This was really the worst book I've ever read. I don't know if it's a problem in the translation or not, but as much as I WANTED to like this book I just couldn't make myself. I got about 60 pages away from the end before I realized that I didn't care about any of the characters and just wanted Veronika to die and get it over with.

I think the worst part for me is that the author chose to write the second chapter about himself. Generally speaking, I think it's admirable that he wanted to protect More...