Veronika Decides To Die

SUMANTRA The Book Club Book Review by: Akanksha Bumb

5/7/2007

Paulo Coelho
Born in 1947 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Also worked as lyrics writer, journalist and theatre artist. Spent youth as hippie. Works translated in 65 languages. Recipient of numerous awards. Entry in the Guinness Books of Records.

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Paulo Coelho Other Works

The Alchemist Eleven Minutes The Pilgrimage The Fifth Mountain Manual of the Warrior Light The Valkyries .and many more.
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About the Book

First published in 1998 Adapted for theatre a number of times Citations used in 8 other novels.

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Why Does Veronika Decide To Die?

Because her life was same everyday too normal for herself powerless to set the wrongs right.

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Villete The infamous asylum

Zedka Mari Eduard

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Excerpts
In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those who decide to die? No one can judge. Each one knows the extent of his own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.
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After so many years of going straight from work to a bar, from that bar to the bed of some lover, from bed to her room, from her room to her mothers house; she was now experiencing something she has never dreamt of, a mental hospital, madness
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a lot of people would talk about the horrors of others lives as if they are genuinely concerned, but the truth was that they took pleasure in suffering of others, because that made them believe they were happy
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I am undergoing a cure, because I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living my life the way I dream it and not the way other people want it to be
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As someone has said, all you had to do was to keep your madness under control. You could cry, get worried..as long as you remember that, up above, your spirit is laughing all aloud at these thorny situations
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Philosophy
Not just do whatever makes you happybut be at peace with whatever you are Everyone is madso dont be ashamed of it! You dont have to abide by the normality standards people have set for you.. set your own! Take a chance .LIVE! And live Authentically!!
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Style and Criticism

Sentences too long and cumbersome.. Not lucid enough compared to authors other works Presence of author as a character seems redundant.

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

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