Lauren est dans le coma, c'est indéniable. Mais elle est aussi dans le placard d'Arthur, un peu comme un fantôme, cela est tout aussi indéniable......
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Nov 22, 2008
Kristianne
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I was so delighted when I discovered the movie was inspired by a book! I really thought the film was so sweet, such a feel-good kind of chick flick. The book however, is a whole lot better.
This is the kind of story that makes you believe in magic. It makes you believe that two people can be fated to love one another and that that love is capable of creating the most unexplainable of miracles. It's books like this that strangely feature no religion but yet make me feel closer to G More...
This is the kind of story that makes you believe in magic. It makes you believe that two people can be fated to love one another and that that love is capable of creating the most unexplainable of miracles. It's books like this that strangely feature no religion but yet make me feel closer to G More...
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Jan 03, 2011
Jenne
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I picked this up (while weeding books at my library) because that movie with Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo, where she's in a coma and he falls in love with her ghost, was based on it.
I didn't like the movie that much, but I thought maybe the book would be good, I'm not sure why.
Anyway, it wasn't.
I didn't like the movie that much, but I thought maybe the book would be good, I'm not sure why.
Anyway, it wasn't.
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Jan 21, 2009
Alaine
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This is a wonderful story about how we should value every moment of life we are given and what a gift it is. I really loved this book, it is the most beautiful story! If only our lives weren't so busy that we forget the basic concepts of life. To make the most of every moment.
This is the story of Arthur and Lauren and how two people came together. Lauren is a coma patient whose soul is free from her body, Arthur lives in what was her apartment. They meet and when Lauren convinced him More...
This is the story of Arthur and Lauren and how two people came together. Lauren is a coma patient whose soul is free from her body, Arthur lives in what was her apartment. They meet and when Lauren convinced him More...
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Aug 02, 2011
A volte tocca leggere i best-sellers per capire di cosa si parla; meglio ancora se sono piccoli di volume e di prezzo.
Doveva trattarsi di una storia d’amore tra un uomo e il fantasma di una donna in coma alla quale stanno per staccare la spina e, considerato quanto ho amato il film “Ghost”, ero pronta a versare calde lacrime. Invece la storia d’amore praticamente non c’è. Non si capisce dove e come si sviluppi. Lui si dice innamorato di lei ma sembra solo molto preso a salvarle la vita (il cor More...
Doveva trattarsi di una storia d’amore tra un uomo e il fantasma di una donna in coma alla quale stanno per staccare la spina e, considerato quanto ho amato il film “Ghost”, ero pronta a versare calde lacrime. Invece la storia d’amore praticamente non c’è. Non si capisce dove e come si sviluppi. Lui si dice innamorato di lei ma sembra solo molto preso a salvarle la vita (il cor More...
Jan 02, 2009
bookczuk
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Read this years ago, and remembered it as being vaguely interesting. We had to get up at half past stupid to take Guyczuk to the airport this morning and when i got home, i decided to re-read it. Found myself very disappointed in the writing, and in the sentimentality of it all. Oh well. some books should not be revisited. Guess heartwarming for me is something different now....
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Jul 29, 2011
Brina
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Als die junge Ärztin Lauren am frühen morgen zu Freunden fahren will, verunglückt sie mit ihrem Auto und fällt ins Koma.
Als sie nach 6 Monaten immer noch nicht aufwacht, vermieten ihre Eltern Laurens Wohnung an den Architekten Arthur.
Eins Tages hört Arthur eine Frauenstimme in seinem Badezimmer und macht eine unglaubliche Entdeckung: Laurens Geist sitzt in seinem Badezimmerschrank. Arthur ist der Einzige, der sie sehen kann und so wird nach einigem Bedenken aus den Beiden bald eine Ein More...
Als sie nach 6 Monaten immer noch nicht aufwacht, vermieten ihre Eltern Laurens Wohnung an den Architekten Arthur.
Eins Tages hört Arthur eine Frauenstimme in seinem Badezimmer und macht eine unglaubliche Entdeckung: Laurens Geist sitzt in seinem Badezimmerschrank. Arthur ist der Einzige, der sie sehen kann und so wird nach einigem Bedenken aus den Beiden bald eine Ein More...
Jul 29, 2011
Brina
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Als die junge Ärztin Lauren am frühen morgen zu Freunden fahren will, verunglückt sie mit ihrem Auto und fällt ins Koma.
Als sie nach 6 Monaten immer noch nicht aufwacht, vermieten ihre Eltern Laurens Wohnung an den Architekten Arthur.
Eins Tages hört Arthur eine Frauenstimme in seinem Badezimmer und macht eine unglaubliche Entdeckung: Laurens Geist sitzt in seinem Badezimmerschrank. Arthur ist der Einzige, der sie sehen kann und so wird nach einigem Bedenken aus den Beiden bald eine Ein More...
Als sie nach 6 Monaten immer noch nicht aufwacht, vermieten ihre Eltern Laurens Wohnung an den Architekten Arthur.
Eins Tages hört Arthur eine Frauenstimme in seinem Badezimmer und macht eine unglaubliche Entdeckung: Laurens Geist sitzt in seinem Badezimmerschrank. Arthur ist der Einzige, der sie sehen kann und so wird nach einigem Bedenken aus den Beiden bald eine Ein More...
Mar 10, 2011
Anita
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Don't you just love it when you pick up a book from the Reader's Choice shelf at the library and it totally delivers!?
Arthur finds a stranger hiding in his linen closet one morning and she's shocked that he can see and hear her. Lauren has been in a coma for six months but her spirit is alive and well, and Arthur is the only one who can see her. At first Arthur doesn't believe Lauren until she takes him to the hospital to show him her body. Arthur promises to help Lauren find a wa More...
Arthur finds a stranger hiding in his linen closet one morning and she's shocked that he can see and hear her. Lauren has been in a coma for six months but her spirit is alive and well, and Arthur is the only one who can see her. At first Arthur doesn't believe Lauren until she takes him to the hospital to show him her body. Arthur promises to help Lauren find a wa More...
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Aug 22, 2010
Valeriane
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Histoire fantastique, pure fiction, ce genre d'aventure pourrait se produire dans la réalité... si on rêve un peu.
Une jeune femme, interne en médecine, prend sa voiture pour partir en week-end. Celui-ci va durer plus longtemps que prévu, car elle fait un accident de la route et tombe dans le coma. Six mois plus tard, son appartement est reloué à un jeune architecte. Elle est toujours plongée dans un coma profond. Mais un soir, alors que l'homme prend son bain, il découvre dans son placard, More...
Une jeune femme, interne en médecine, prend sa voiture pour partir en week-end. Celui-ci va durer plus longtemps que prévu, car elle fait un accident de la route et tombe dans le coma. Six mois plus tard, son appartement est reloué à un jeune architecte. Elle est toujours plongée dans un coma profond. Mais un soir, alors que l'homme prend son bain, il découvre dans son placard, More...
Apr 24, 2010
Elena
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When I was in high school my best friend's mom convinced my and my best to buy a book each instead of going to a movie. She said that it would be about the same price and we'd get more hours of entertainment, therefore it was a better value. This was the book I chose because it was the movie we were going to see. She was right, it took me longer to read then 2 hours but it didn't make me run back to the bookstore for another book.
What does that say? I don't know, I wasn't really rea More...
What does that say? I don't know, I wasn't really rea More...
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Aug 04, 2011
Roland
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Premier roman de Levy que je lis. Le postulat de départ est correct (une femme tombée dans le coma vit "spirituellement" en dehors de son corps), même si les premiers chapitres sont très mauvais, l'auteur s'échinant à vouloir décrire toutes les actions des personnages en dépit du bon sens et de tout logique stylistique, ce qui peut au mieux exaspérer, au pire écoeurer (la description de l'accident de la jeune femme est en sens un modèle ignoble du genre...). Les dialogues sont souvent
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Jul 26, 2011
Panthère
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Un roman très très léger. Et tout à fait invraisemblable. Non, ce n'est pas l'histoire de la femme dans le coma dont l'esprit se matérialise ailleurs qui me dérange, mais tout le reste. Les dialogues, par exemple, notamment un enfant de 10 ans qui ne parle absolument pas comme un enfant, même un enfant précoce. Et plein de situations auxquelles on ne croit pas, entre autres un grand hôpital américain où l'on entre comme dans un moulin. En commençant le livre, j'ai eu plusieurs moments où (déform
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Sep 25, 2009
Sara ♥
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Aug 14, 2011
Tina (Martina ♥ Bookaholic)
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Ein Architekt findet in seiner neu gemieteten Wohnung eine Frau vor, die seit Monaten im Koma zu liegen und sich nur als „Geist“ hier in ihrer alten Wohnung zu befinden. Nach anfänglich Zweifeln glaubt er und sie versuchen einen Weg zu finden, sie aus dem Koma zu befreien, bis sie eines Tages erfahren, dass für ihren Körper im Krankenhaus die Lebenserhaltenden Maschinen abgeschalteten werden sollen. Ein Wettrennen und Versteckspiel um Leben und Liebe beginnt…
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Ein Architekt findet in seiner neu gemieteten Wohnung eine Frau vor, die seit Monaten im Koma zu liegen und sich nur als „Geist“ hier in ihrer alten Wohnung zu befinden. Nach anfänglich Zweifeln glaubt er und sie versuchen einen Weg zu finden, sie aus dem Koma zu befreien, bis sie eines Tages erfahren, dass für ihren Körper im Krankenhaus die Lebenserhaltenden Maschinen abgeschalteten werden sollen. Ein Wettrennen und Versteckspiel um Leben und Liebe beginnt…
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Dec 22, 2009
Barbra
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Tried to get into this one but it lost me about a quarter of the way through. The blurb sounded good but it just couldn't keep me interested.
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Lying in the bath in his new apartment, Arthur, a young architect, is understandably surprised when he hears fingers clicking to the sound of the music from the radio. Tracing the noise to a closet, he finds an attractive young woman hiding and, assuming she is part of a practical joke, asks her to leave.
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Lying in the bath in his new apartment, Arthur, a young architect, is understandably surprised when he hears fingers clicking to the sound of the music from the radio. Tracing the noise to a closet, he finds an attractive young woman hiding and, assuming she is part of a practical joke, asks her to leave.
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Dec 06, 2009
Katrina
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Jan 29, 2009
Jadine
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I wanted to love this book because it is what the movie Just Like Heaven was based on. I figured the characters would be more fleshed out and you would learn more about Mark Ruffalo's character, but the whole back story was different and not nearly as engaging. Rent the movie; it was worth watching more than once and the book wasn't worth finishing even once.
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Jan 27, 2011
Maria
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When I discovered Marc Levy, some years ago, I realized it was a magic writer.
This was the first of his books I read, around 2003 or 2004.
Then they made a movie of it - but, as always, the book is better!
After a few years and some two or three books in between, Marc Levy would write the continuation of this story - which the movie, by twisting the end in order to finish "well", had not made it possible to expect a sequel.
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Nov 02, 2010
Michael
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I actually give this book an A+. The title caught my eye while reading an article in PREMIERE magazine that Spielberg had purchased the film rights to do a movie based on the book.
It was a fun "what if" kind of book that explores an 'almost' loss of life and moments that occurred during a comatose state. It's an original romantic novel with a lot of meaning intertwined. A lovely book. Some of the tricks that the main character, Lauren, did reminded me of "Bewitched" More...
It was a fun "what if" kind of book that explores an 'almost' loss of life and moments that occurred during a comatose state. It's an original romantic novel with a lot of meaning intertwined. A lovely book. Some of the tricks that the main character, Lauren, did reminded me of "Bewitched" More...
Apr 09, 2010
Nuno
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Marc Levy é definitivamente um dos meus autores favoritos, no ano 2000, peguei no livro »Enquanto estiveres aí» (Grandes Narrativas-Editorial Presença) completamnete ao acaso, fiquei fascinado, rendido e quase sem folego, pela incrivel fluidez, exurberancia, e fantastica capacidade narrativa de Levy. (este livro que mais tarde passaria a chamar-se «E se Fosse verdade?») que acaba por ser mais fiel à traduçao do titulo no original, foi publicado pela editora Pergaminho, que provavelmente terá
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Mar 07, 2011
Mae
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This is a classic love story, yet a great ghost story too. The book starts when Lauren, the main character, a very successful medical intern. has a car accident on her way to a well deserved weekend away. Six months later, she finds herself in her old apartment--but she is a ghost. The book is quite funny at times, because she is describing her abilities as a ghost how she can change outfits and spy on people! It is an incredible story which the author convinces you that it is possible.
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Aug 11, 2011
Beth
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Good book, but I didn't find it anything too spectacular. I'd say that I still enjoy the movie version much more. I expected to be very emotionally connected to this book [considering the way that I cry my eyes out whenever I see the movie] but I just felt that it was far too slow and "explanitive" [it's very.. "this person did this, then they did this, and then they said this, and so & so said this in reply.."] I feel as though most stories that touch you emotionally do so b
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Jan 03, 2009
Natalie
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Nov 30, 2011
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Aug 25, 2011
Heidi
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This book is what the movie Just Like Heaven is based on. I loved the movie, so I tried the book. It was a cute, but a somewhat unbelievable story. Especially the part where he steals her comatose body from the hospital and keeps it for a couple of weeks and a police officer finds out but says, "Oh well, let's take her body back and I'll not arrest you." This is one of those books/movies where some things about the book I liked more than the movie, but there were also some things a
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Dec 09, 2011
Ne
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Apesar do que esperava, foram raros os deja vu's que me assolaram ao longo da leitura deste livro. Mas apesar deste aspecto positivo, não gostei muito.
Comparando com o "A Próxima Vez" que li recentemente e com a adaptação cinematográfica, acho até que este está medíocre e pior.
A ideia é excelente e muito romântica, mesmo ao estilo de Marc Levy, mas os diálogos estão bastante mal aproveitados e desenvolvidos. Estes são transformados em diálogos indirectos, o que aumenta o " More...
Comparando com o "A Próxima Vez" que li recentemente e com a adaptação cinematográfica, acho até que este está medíocre e pior.
A ideia é excelente e muito romântica, mesmo ao estilo de Marc Levy, mas os diálogos estão bastante mal aproveitados e desenvolvidos. Estes são transformados em diálogos indirectos, o que aumenta o " More...
Nov 16, 2011
Denise
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I didn't like the way this book was written. A narration forced to the third person, a narrator forced to objectivity... it would've been better if any one of the two main characters would've told the story or maybe a parallel display of the two versions, like in John Fowles's Collector.
The book was very easy to read, I could've as well skimmed the pages and still got the idea, but that was maybe because I saw the movie too. Anyway, it lacked details. At least the first half (I think) of t More...
The book was very easy to read, I could've as well skimmed the pages and still got the idea, but that was maybe because I saw the movie too. Anyway, it lacked details. At least the first half (I think) of t More...
Jan 29, 2012
Brina
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Als die junge Ärztin Lauren am frühen morgen zu Freunden fahren will, verunglückt sie mit ihrem Auto und fällt ins Koma.
Als sie nach 6 Monaten immer noch nicht aufwacht, vermieten ihre Eltern Laurens Wohnung an den Architekten Arthur.
Eins Tages hört Arthur eine Frauenstimme in seinem Badezimmer und macht eine unglaubliche Entdeckung: Laurens Geist sitzt in seinem Badezimmerschrank. Arthur ist der Einzige, der sie sehen kann und so wird nach einigem Bedenken aus den Beiden bald eine Ein More...
Als sie nach 6 Monaten immer noch nicht aufwacht, vermieten ihre Eltern Laurens Wohnung an den Architekten Arthur.
Eins Tages hört Arthur eine Frauenstimme in seinem Badezimmer und macht eine unglaubliche Entdeckung: Laurens Geist sitzt in seinem Badezimmerschrank. Arthur ist der Einzige, der sie sehen kann und so wird nach einigem Bedenken aus den Beiden bald eine Ein More...
Jan 29, 2012
Je me souviens de la première fois que j’ai lu ce livre, c’était au collège il y a maintenant quelques années… Je me souviens avoir eu un coup de coeur à l’époque pour ce livre, pour l’auteur et c’est donc avec joie que j’ai entrepris sa relecture. Comme au collège, j’ai adoré l’histoire, tendre, émouvante, folle et poignante à la fois. La vie d’un homme et d’une femme dont la vie se retrouve bouleversé du jour au lendemain. Les personnages de Lauren et Arthur se ressemble beaucoup, par leur ouv
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Mar 06, 2011
Bellarie
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Als ich den Buchtitel las, dachte ich: Kitsch pur. Aber als ich dann das Buch durch hatte, war ich positiv überrascht! Hier geht es um eine junge Frau, die nach einem Unfall in's Koma fällt. Ihre Wohnung wird aufgelöst, es zieht ein Nachmieter ein. Diesem erscheint sie dann als Geist, welcher ihn zu ihrem Körper führt und das Abenteuer nimmt seinen Lauf. Das Buch ist sehr gut geschrieben und sehr kurzweilig. Ich war von der Geschichte fasziniert und hatte manchmal das Gefühl, mich mit beiden Fig
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