Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Rayo
Date Published: 9/16/2003
ISBN-13:9780060591830ISBN:0060591838
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Rayo
Date Published: 2003-09
ISBN-13:9780060591830ISBN:0060591838
Description: Like New. Paperback. Book has been read through once. Otherwise, You are buying a Book in NEW condition with very light shelf wear to include very light edge and corner wear. Buy it Now! ! ! As always, thank you for buying this book from International Book Source, YOUR ONE source FOR ALL your BOOK related NEEDS. Please remember to CHOOSE carefully how QUICKLY you would like to RECEIVE this material FAST, or standard (on next page). Thanks again! ! ! ! read more
Description: Brand New. Paperback. "Sensitively exploring the spiritual nature of sex and love, Coehlo invites us to confront our demons and embrace our "inner light. " Maria, heartbroken after her first innocent brushes with love, now working as a prostitute in Geneva, believes she will never find true love. But when she meets a handsome young painter, she must choose between the dark path of sexual pleasure for its own sake and risking everything to find her own "inner light" and the possibility of ... read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Rayo
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780060591830ISBN:0060591838
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Text in English, Spanish. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 272 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grijalbo, Mexico
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9789700516264ISBN:9700516261
Description: Good+ In Spanish, Espaņol. Very good, clean copy inside. Cover has label on front & on back/covering bar-code, scuffing/scratching, slight edge/corner wear, bent front corner. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Planeta
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9789504915225ISBN:9504915221
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Good+. Slight cover wear. Text in Spanish. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Editorial Planeta
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9788408048787ISBN:8408048783
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Rayo
Date Published: 2003-09-01
ISBN-13:9780060591830ISBN:0060591838
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Rayo
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780060591830ISBN:0060591838
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: European Schoolbooks
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9788408048787ISBN:8408048783
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Rayo
Date Published: 9/16/2003
ISBN-13:9780060591830ISBN:0060591838
Description: Fair. 0060591838 SOFTCOVER( SPANISH EDITION) HAS A BIT OF WATER DAMAGE ON THE BOTTOM PART, PAGES ARE FAIR READING CONDITION, EXTERIOR HAS SOME WEAR, NO HI-LIGHTING/UNDERLINING, BINDING TIGHT, STILL USEFUL. read more
"I am a huge fan of Paulo Coelho; his novel The Witch of Portobello is one of my favorite books, and The Alchemist is one of the books I can't keep in my possession because I keep lending it out. So when I ran out of books half-way through my trip to Indianapolis, this book was an obvious choice.
Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young woman from Brazil working as a prostitute in Switzerland. The story utilizes Maria's relationship with love and sex to explore the spectrum of sexual relations from banal and punishing to sacred and loving sex. I must admit, I do not agree with some of Coelho's final assertions. Despite providing some sex positive examples of prostitution, sado-masochism, and alternative sexual acts, Coelho's final message ends up being the same hetero-normative, sexually conservative, love-is-the-answer drivel that is paraded everywhere. The only difference in Coelho's work is the notation that sex can be a good thing, sex can be sacred. He even offers, briefly, an example of "sacred prostitution"; however, this high point is quickly dismissed as no longer existing, and the good sex = love point is driven home once more.
Overall, while I disagreed with the final message, Eleven Minutes did make me think. While far from perfect, it does offer some beautiful prose, and the first paragraph may just beone of my all time favorite book openers."
"This could possibly be the single worst book I have ever read and what made it worse is that three people, three people I actually enjoy, all men, of course, "loved" this book. Besides, the juvenile writing and the overuse of dictionary.com's thesaurus, let's look at the plot. A young brazilian girl (every man's sick fantasy, point one) is duped into sex slavery in europe, who cares what country it is there are no distinguishing descriptive features given by the author, that would involve you in the place anyway. Yet, somehow instead of being horrified, scared and violated, she is indifferent, "o the hell with it" and gets philosophical. So philosophical, she can prostitute for a sociopathic sadist and feel honored and enlightened (another sick fantasy, point two). Then she falls in love, in an unattached, hard to believe and unlikely fashion with some generic painter and they have tantra-esque sex moments, until they finally get it on and have the best sex of her life(sick fantasy, point three) and how do they do it, by bending her over an end table, for like ten seconds (sick fantasy, point four). Best sex? Unlikely. So this "novel" if one can call it that is little more than a bad sex book, looking for a tingling in the loins? You'd get more satisfaction from lady chatterley's lover written eons ago and you'd get a good story between jacking off. I hope this ridiculous male chauvinist of an author stops thinking he can write from the perspective of a raped young woman and moves on. It's insulting."
"Some of my friends were raving about Coelho's "The Alchemist"; however, my first encounter with his writing is this book. I'm a little bit disappointed, though, because I expected more.
My friends said that Coelho writes simple topics but with philosophies that could give new meanings on the subject--and some enhancement to the readers. I do agree on the philosophical thingy, but for my point of view, it doesn't quite fit in this book.
Maria, the prostitute who became the main character in this book, is too sophisticated--way too sophisticated and too philosophical to the point of sounding false. Although the first part was engaging enough when Coelho describing Maria's desperate life in the small village in Brazil, he became too preachy when he started to explain the reasons of why Maria finally ended up being a prostitute, with the many false justifications on the many things she decided or thought of, including on the spiritual side.
I could just say that Coelho did a fine research, though, on the sexual subject."
Dalam beberapa hal, Paulo ternyata smacam menyampaikan dengan jelas apa yang aku pikirkan , yakini dan khawatirkan... Padahal aku tidak memiliki koneksi apa2 dengan orang ini (hehehehe yeah of course not,how come idiot?!)
Jelas sekali bagiku pesan mengenai seks dan cinta. Keduanya adalah bentuk kebebasan dan kemerdekaan... Semua sudah begitu banyak yang kehilangan makna hingga harus dimaterikan bahkan ditampikkan dengan wajah kemunafikan, dan Paulo menelanjangi semua disini...
Hal lain yang juga menarik perhatianku adalah mengenai Tujuan dan Keberanian. Kadang kita terpaku dengan tujuan, menjadi sebuah keharusan dan lagi2 kehilangan esensi dan sensasi dalam mencapai tujuan itu. Lagi2 kita dibebabkan oleh tujuan2 yang (mungkin) bukan keinginan kita, tapi keinginan orang lain. Menjalani segala sesuatu tanpa menikmati dan benar merasakannya, menjalani tanpa berani mencoba yang baru, hingga kita tidak berani mengambil resiko2 atau pengalaman2 baru, kita terlalu pengecut dan ketakutan...
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