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Eleven Minutes's Review

Eleven MinutesEleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I love the opening naration
"Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria"
Its combining the opening for the children's story, then mixed it with the adult word.

Then the first chapter continued telling about her background, which was actually made me cry, how her first crash was, then her first boyfriend, and blah blah blah. But after reading a half of the book, somehow it got boring, but then the plot got up when it closed to the ending.

Well, the story is about Maria, a poor, daydreamer women from Brazil who loved to try new things and gets new experiences. Unfortunately, when she decided to go to Swiss, she ended up of being prostitute. She was describing as a beautiful and smart, who had a plan for her future (this part is a little boring). Then she met a young man, Ralf, rich and handsome, he was a painter, and he saw then light in her (I like this part). Not far after met Ralf, she was introduced to the world of her new rich client who was a masochism, then Maria started to feel how intresting, and how she loved to feel in pain.

There are a good lesson from the story, besides the sex scene that describe tooooo detail, and I get bored of it, even there were some pages that passed it without read it.

Here are my favorite quotes from this book:

"When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”

“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.”

“No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it”

“In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.”

“Love one another, but let’s try not to possess one another.”



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