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: Debolsillo
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9786074292237ISBN:607429223X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grijalbo, Mexico
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9789700516264ISBN:9700516261
Description: Good+ In Spanish, Español. 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: Softcover: Pocket
Publisher: Debolsillo Mexico
Date Published: 2009-10-01
ISBN-13:9786074292237ISBN:607429223X
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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: Paperback
Publisher: Rayo
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780060591830ISBN:0060591838
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Rayo
Date Published: 2003-09-01
ISBN-13:9780060591830ISBN:0060591838
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"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."
"I wish I could write as admirably as Paulo Coelho. Call me a late bloomer, it was only this year that I finally indulged with his obras even though Coelho's books have made worldwide bestsellers several times over. And my! What a delightful way to feed the mind and nourish the soul with his astute wisdom and thought-provoking stories.
My favourite novel of Coelho so far is Eleven Minutes, which relates the story of Maria, a Brazilian girl who allowed herself to become a sex worker in Switzerland. The book speaks insightfully about how Maria's life choices helped her find her self, her soul, and her love. Why Eleven Minutes? "If you allow time for taking off clothes, making some phoney gesture of affection, having a bit of banal conversation and getting dressed again, the amount of time spent actually having sex is about eleven minutes... The world revolved around something that only took eleven minutes."
The rich and powerful pay good money for escorts and lady companions - just to be happy. But as it is with prostitution, clients know they are paying for something that should be free; and the ladies know that they have to give something which should have been offered out of pleasure and affection. These destructive thoughts have made Maria realize that Swiss Francs - with all its power and abundance - cannot buy happiness, and that only love can fill the chasm of loneliness. "I need to love.. That is all, I need to love.. Life is too short, or too long, to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly."
It is weird how the life of Maria, a life-learned prostitute, could evoke such connections about life and love, and of course, sex. I can relate with so many aspects of her life and her thoughts.
Whatever profession we are in, there is a part of Maria in us. We know that loneliness is the worst of all tortures and the most terrible of all sufferings. And in our efforts to avoid loneliness, we stay in relationships that are "good enough" instead of patiently pursuing for "the best." If you consider yourself a gem, why should you settle for less?
Whew! Just when I thought inspirational novels were not my kind of thing, Coelho runs smack into my wits and hits down hard in my psyche and spirit. Here is a Brazilian man who speaks the universal language of the soul, and he has touched the lives of millions of readers, including myself. I, too, was moved. Profoundly."
"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."
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