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A Man Called Ove review
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last updated May 13, 2019 11:21AM
A Man Called Ove review
By Mehvish · 1 post · 6 views
last updated May 13, 2019 11:21AM

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Aisha
Aug 24, 2017 rated it it was ok
To be fair, I didn’t complete the book, I zoomed the ending. For a good reason though! Honestly, I loved the boy’s character in the beginning. His simple life gave him a purity of thought that translated into words deep with wisdom. As the story progressed though I began to lose the plot. I felt the story became too poetic; it was overfilling with analogies of life until my mind felt fogged. Also, I feel the author mixed too many concepts together until it became confusing. There was Christianit ...more
Mehvish
Feb 09, 2015 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
A thought provoking book about destiny , dreams and omens and how a boy finds what he's looking for by understanding the world around him .

This book was something which I would have never picked up to read but after reading mixed reviews about it . I thought I'd give it a try . It was a book which used many aspects of the beliefs of Christians. I felt this book had a "godly" feel to it , as it pushes the reader to think out of the box and to think about their own surroundings.
The only thing whic
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Sameer Brohi
Oct 30, 2020 rated it did not like it  ·  review of another edition
Paulo had once again cringed me.
What is this? A memoir of a journey of a confuse boy who is longing for her crush but forgets her after another beautiful girl appears from a dusty Arabian desert. A Muslim girl who is an ARAB from a DESERT of a typical CLAN -TRIBE who are FIERCE is actually fallen in love with this guy without much of a problem from her or either from her family or clan or even from an unknown foreigner like him, LOL.
The boy who had zero cognitive ability who takes the decisions
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Marilyn Guggenheim
Mar 03, 2012 rated it it was amazing
Maheen Humayun
Nov 21, 2012 rated it liked it
Tiara
Apr 08, 2014 marked it as to-read
Richu
Jun 18, 2014 rated it it was amazing
Ellen
Jun 21, 2014 rated it liked it
Sana
Feb 06, 2015 marked it as to-read
Soumie
Oct 30, 2015 marked it as to-read
Venu Gopal
Jul 20, 2016 marked it as to-read
Ana
Feb 26, 2018 rated it it was amazing
Carolyn
Jan 31, 2018 marked it as to-read
Kaye
Jun 26, 2018 marked it as to-read
Hannah
Jan 05, 2019 marked it as to-read
Sahaab Jawad
May 20, 2019 rated it really liked it
Lauren
Jun 24, 2019 rated it liked it
Mitta
Feb 02, 2020 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
Uzma
Dec 31, 2021 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Elena
Feb 18, 2023 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Aisha
Dec 08, 2023 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Ziyanda Roxa
Jul 19, 2024 is currently reading it  ·  review of another edition