Veronika Decides to Die

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. ”An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely." It talks about death and life and the meaning of them, madness and insanity and why would we actually say that someone is “mad”. It just blows your mind. I really loved the main idea/plot of the book and the message it tried to send. I also liked How it takes place in a mental institution

I checked this book out of the library because I received a book by Coelho which stated it was the third book in a trilogy. Wondering if I could read the third book without the first two, I decided to read the first two, first. It was unnecessary, but I'm glad I did.

This book drew me in quite rapidly. And, instead of doing homework and studying for an exam, like I should be doing, I finished this book. Coelho's writing has changed a bit, or else the translation was not done the same as the other book I've read. This story is less poeticly written, but still has the same theme: love/love for life.

I recommend this book.

This book is like ointment for pain - and it's only 200 pages long, so automatically a winner in my book.

Souvenir vague. Ce livre ne m'a pas marquée mais je me souviens l'avoir trouvé moins pénible et puéril que L'alchimiste, lu peu de temps avant.