About this title: "La Bruja de Portobello" relata la vida de Athena mediante la gente que la conocia bien o que no la conocia nada. Entre ellos, su madre adoptiva, un periodista, una sacerdotisa, un historiador y una actriz. Cada persona ilustra un aspecto diferente del caracter de Athena, describiendo lo que vieron y experimentaron y tambien compartiendo sus ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rayo
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780061338830ISBN:0061338834
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Like new. Remainder. Text in Spanish. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 250 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Rayo
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780061632730ISBN:0061632732
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Rayo
Date Published: 2008-02-01
ISBN-13:9780061632730ISBN:0061632732
Description: New. NEW and UNREAD. No creases, highly clean matte cover. No stamps, names or notations. Clean crisp pages in tight straight square spine. NEW and UNREAD. As pictured. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Rayo
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780061632730ISBN:0061632732
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. (A103_5/9)Book is in good condition. Text in English, Spanish. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 250 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Rayo
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780061632730ISBN:0061632732
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Rayo
Date Published: 2008-02-01
ISBN-13:9780061632730ISBN:0061632732
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Grijalbo, Mexico
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9789707801028ISBN:9707801026
Description: Very Good. No Jacket as Issued. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. AP2-Book bumped on some corners, light discoloration and shelf wear otherwise very good. Text in Spanish. read more
Binding: Spoken Word Compact Disc
Publisher: Fonolibro Inc
Date Published: 2007-12-10
ISBN-13:9781933499567ISBN:1933499567
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rayo
Date Published: 2007-02-01
ISBN-13:9780061338830ISBN:0061338834
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rayo
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780061338830ISBN:0061338834
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"I didn't finish this book... I feel kind of bad about that, especially as this was a gift, but the writing style and topic got on my nerves. It's about Athena and...well, it goes through people's interviews/written memoirs about her after her death. So we never know anything from the "primary source," if you will. The "voices" of a variety of characters sound all the same - a father, her ex-husband, her teacher, a journalist, her student, a man who taught her calligraphy, her mother, her biological mother - despite their different upbringings and ages and roles. Now I don't claim to be a great or good author (I don't write prose, anyway), and I certainly can't write distinctive voices for every character I come up, but with the acclaim Coelho gets, I expected him to have that ability. Not to mention...who talks like that when they're really, really young (when Athena was a child)?
Apparently she's in a quest to get in touch with the female face of God/Mother/etc. Heh... It got a little too preachy at points and I felt uncomfortable reading it so...yeah, relegated to the not-finished pile. I have to say, though, the only reason it's not a 1-star rating is because there are some insightful lines/quotes in the book."
"I will put this into a category of fictionalized essay, if asked, where things are demonstrated through characters. The characters are all right, because deepened by the narrative method. If it had only been the journalist or Athena then I'd agree with those who place it in the preaching or treatise zone. I think I will again agree with the average of all the comments I skimmed on Goodreads. That it had me thinking about several things I had touched on in my thinking and considering them in new lights, or almost new, then it deserves its 3rd star in my utterly unruly rating system, but I agree with Claude that a lot is familiar: much of that 'familiar' is still new ideas to me these past 2 years, so anything that helps me continue to think through them is fine with me. Likewise, giving them slightly ambiguous characters to work it through is, too, allthough for fascination, I will go for Proust was a Neuroscientist with real people working on very similar questions in so many different ways."
"I bought this book in Cabo for a few pesos and later found it was being given away FREE, so my expectations were somewhat tempered and let me just say Coelho does not disappoint. Ahem.
On a positive note, Paulo Coelho has one of the great names in contemporary fiction, one that exudes a sort of exotic erudition, so one might say that only an author as magnificent as Coelho can draw the reader in and convince that reader he is purposefully fooling the reader into believing that this book was written in boredom on the back of failed driver's license examinations during multiple trips to the DMV.
Cliches? Check. Surprise ending? Check. Air sickness bag in the seat pocket ahead of you? THANK GOD CHECK. Check? Please.
What I liked about this book was that the main character was apparently born in Sibiu, Transylvania, a city where I lived for a year during college and also, like I said, I really like the author's name. He should totally ride that name into another book deal, maybe with Nicholas Sparks as they tackle New Ageism in Charleston.
The beautiful, misunderstood, dancing gypsy motif hasn't been performed this well since 1996's Hunchback of Notre Dame, so kudos to Mr. Coelho for respecting Walt Disney pictures enough not to outdo it.
Did I mention they were giving this book away for free? My advice: Save your receipt."
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