Veronika Decides to Die audiobook

Madness is wanting to be normal. There is something very wrong with the world. Veronika wants to die. And she can certainly try, but she can also, certainly, fail. Committed to an insane asylum, she may actually find sanity in the craziest places of all. Unfortunately, I cannot really go into much detail without spoiling much of the book's content, so I'm just going to say that those few who decide to read it may find in it a beautiful profoundly moving story, about life, and death. Veronika is one of those characters that, despite all circumstances, you cannot but find her tragically adorable. This is one of those 'love it or hate it' books, so you are probably going to love it plainly, or hate it deeply. You can tell which side the coin toss landed for me.Still remaining, the movie (2009)----------------------------------------------- PERSONAL NOTE : [1998] [210p] [Inspirational] [Highly Recommendable] ----------------------------------------------- Locura es querer ser normal. Hay algo muy mal en el mundo. Veronika quiere morir. Y ciertamente lo puede intentar, pero también puede, ciertamente, fallar. Confinada a un manicomio, puede que halle la cordura en el lugar más loco de todos.Desafortunadamente, no puedo entrar en mucho detalle sin arriesgarme a arruinar mucho del contenido del libro, así que sólo voy a decir que aquellos pocos que decidan leerlo puede que encuentren en él una hermosa y profundamente conmovedora historia, sobre la vida, y la muerte.Veronika es uno de esos personajes que, a fuerzas de las circunstancias, uno no puede evitar encontrarla trágicamente adorable. Este es uno de esos libros de 'ámalo o ódialo', así que probablemente vas a amarlo plenamente, u odiarlo ferveramente. Podés adivinar de qué lado cayó la moneda en mi caso.Queda pendiente la película (2009)----------------------------------------------- NOTA PERSONAL : [1998] [210p] [Inspiracional] [Altamente Recomendable] -----------------------------------------------

Fantastic read! Awesome! I could not put the book down!“Veronika Decides to Die” – just read the title again….decides to die…How many times have you said to yourself, at least I have, “Ahh…I don’t care, I don’t really want to live anymore”, without even thinking about the meaning of it.So Veronika said the same thing and decided to do something about it. Why?Nothing bad had happened to Veronika, she was beautiful, had a regular life…very ordinary though ... but normalShe decided that it was not exciting enough, and decided to die!But her suicide attempt didn’t succeed and she ended up in the mental hospital. The pills ruined her heart and she had one more week to live before she dies – or so she was told."An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely." Having only week to live, Veronika re-discovers herself sexually and emotionally, falls in love, and starts having this eagerness to live.In addition, her suicide touched lives of other people in the mental hospital, who started cherish every day of their lives."Basically everything that happens in our life is our fault, and our fault alone."So when the next time you say to yourself, “Ahh…I don’t care, I don’t really want to live anymore” - think twice.2014 Update:I re-read this book this year for my book club... 6 years since I read it first. I agree with all points after my first read but want to add some additional points on issues that Coelho discusses:- Conformity, society norms and its danger - Madness/insanity and what they really mean within the chains of society norms; how society norms varies from culture to culture, and how personal individuality can be affected by these “norms” - Death and life and how knowing that death is imminent changes your perception of life: you start appreciating every moment and allow yourself to express yourself - The book discusses other characters, Mari, Zedka, and Eduard. They were hiding inside the walls of Vilette because they were trying to escape the real world due to similar reasons related to to not being understood by their families and society. Vilette’s environment created a shield from the real world, “society”, and allowed these “insane” people to express themselves and behave the way they want without criticism. At the end… Veronika’s suicide affects them profoundly awakening in them a desire to live outside of Vilette’s walls and also making them to realize that Vilette is just another form of controlled society with its own rules and acceptance. And that at the end the true happiness lies in our own desire and believe, in our own acceptance and willingness to remove any boundaries and allow ourselves to live to the fullest, and be happy!

(Book 90 from 1001 books) - Veronika decide morrer = Veronika Decides To Die (On the Seventh Day #2), Paulo CoelhoVeronika Decides to Die, is a novel by Paulo Coelho. It tells the story of 24-year-old Slovenian Veronika, who appears to have everything in life going for her, but who decides to kill herself. While she waits to die, she cancels the suicide letter she starts to her parents while suddenly provoked by a magazine article.The magazine article wittily asks "Where is Slovenia?", so she writes a letter to the press justifying her suicide, the idea is to make the press believe that she has killed herself because people don't even know where Slovenia is. Her plan fails and she wakes up from the coma in Villette, a mental hospital in Slovenia, where she is told she has only a few days to live due to heart condition caused by the overdose.Her presence there affects all of the mental hospital's patients, especially Zedka, who has clinical depression; Mari, who has panic attacks; and Eduard, who has schizophrenia, and with whom Veronika falls in love. During her internment in Villette she realizes that she has nothing to lose and can, therefore, do what she wants, say what she wants and be who she wants without having to worry about what others think of her; as a mental patient, she is unlikely to be criticized. Because of this new-found freedom, Veronika experiences all the things she never allowed herself to experience, including hatred and love. ...ورونیکا تصمیم می‌گیرد بمیرد - پائولو کوئیلو (کاروان) ادبیات، تاریخ نخستین خوانش: ماه سپتامبر سال 2000میلادیعنوان: ورونیکا تصمیم می‌گیرد بمیرد؛ نویسنده: پائولو کوئلیو؛ مترجم: آرش حجازی؛ تهران، کاروان، 1378؛ در 236ص؛ مصور، عکس؛ چاپ پنجم سال 1378؛ ششم تا هشتم 1379؛ نهم تا یازدهم 1380؛ دوازده و سیزدهم 1381؛ نوزدهم 1386؛ بیست و دوم 1388؛ موضوع داستانهای نویسندگان برزیل - سده 20مدختر جوانی بیست و چهار ساله به نام «ورونیکا» و از اهالی «اسلوونیا»، که‌ به‌ برهان‌ آزادی‌ و فراموشی‌ همیشگی‌، به‌ دنبال‌ مرگ‌ رفته، زندگی‌ را باز می‌یابد؛ او نزدیک‌ یک‌ هفته‌، بین‌ زندگی‌ و مرگ‌ سرگردان‌ است، ولی‌ آگاهیش از مرگ،‌ باعث‌ می‌شود، زندگی‌ کند، و کارهایی‌ را انجام‌ دهد، که‌ پیش‌ از آن‌ هرگز نکرده‌ بود؛ «ورونیکا» به‌ آنچه‌ ندارد می‌اندیشد، و زندگی‌ خود را دوباره‌ ارزیابی‌ می‌کندنقل از متن: (در یازدهم نوامبر 1997میلادی، «ورونیکا» به این نتیجه رسید که بالاخره لحظه خودکشی اش فرا رسیده است! او با دقت تمام اتاقی را که در صومعه ای کرایه کرده بود تمیز کرد، بخاری را خاموش کرد، دندانهایش را مسواک زد، و دراز کشیدچهار بسته قرص خواب آور را از روی میز کنار تخت خوابش برداشت، به جای اینکه آنها را خرد و در آب حل کند، تصمیم گرفت یکی یکی ببلعدشان، زیرا همواره بین تصمیم گیری و اقدام به آن، قدری فاصله وجود دارد، و دلش میخواست آزادی بازگشت از نیمه راه را داشته باشد، ولی با هر قرصی که فرومیداد، بیشتر احساس اطمینان میکرد: پس از پنج دقیقه بسته ها کاملاً خالی شده بودچون نمیدانست چقدر طول میکشد تا از هوش برود، نسخه آن ماهِ مجله فرانسویِ هوم را روی تختخواب قرار داده بود، این مجله اخیرا به کتابخانه ای رسیده بود که در آنجا کار میکرد، او هیچ علاقه خاصی به علم کامپیوتر نداشت، ولی همین طور که مجله را ورق میزد، به مطلبی در مورد یک بازی کامپیوتری رسید (یکی از آن سی دی ـ رام ها) که اثر نویسنده ای «برزیلی» به نام «پائولو کوئیلو» بود که ضمن یک سخنرانی در کافه ای در هتل «گراند یونیون» او را ملاقات کرده بود؛ آنها چند کلمه ای با هم رد و بدل کرده بودند و در نهایت ناشر «کوئیلو» از او دعوت کرده بود تا برای شام به آنها ملحق گردد؛ ولی در آنجا افراد زیادی حضور داشتند و آنها فرصت چندانی برای گفتگوی جدی در مورد موضوع خاصی به دست نیاورده بودندورونیکا از آنجا که «کوئیلو» را ملاقات کرده بود، او را بخشی از دنیای خودش به حساب میآورد و احساس میکرد خواندن مطلبی در مورد کارهای او ممکن است در گذراندن وقت یاری اش دهد، «ورونیکا» در حالیکه در انتظار مرگ به سر میبرد، مطلب مربوط به علم کامپیوتر را مطالعه کرد، او به این موضوع کمترین علاقه ای نداشت، ولی این کاری بود که در تمام زندگی کرده بود: همواره گشتن به دنبال انتخابی راحتتر و در دسترستر مانند همین مجلهبا کمال تعجب دریافت که اولین سطر مطلب او را از حالت انفعالی اش بیرون آورده است -قرصهای آرامبخش هنوز در درون معده اش حل نشده بود، ولی «ورونیکا» طبیعتا فردی منفعل بود-، و او برای اولین بار در زندگی اش با این حقیقت که به صورت ضرب المثلی بین دوستانش رایج شده بود، کلنجار رفت: «در این دنیا هیچ چیز تصادفی نیست.»)؛ پایانتاریخ بهنگام رسانی 21/07/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 21/06/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

One word: liberating!Divided into 27 unnamed chapters, this book talks about Veronica, someone who has got everything in her life that noth8ng matters to her anymore.She thinks she has got everything what a human needs to be happy and gets tired of a monotonous life of having everything.She ultimately decides to end her life as she thinks there is nothing else to want or need more to live by as she already has a good job, being young & pretty, having the best boyfriend, a perfect family.Somehow she gets saved and ends up in a hospital ward to recover after having spent 5 days in the ICU.The story begins after this. She feels like a new being, having liberated from a world of glam & competition.She openly explores her desires, expresses her needs & wants with no fear of judgement.She experiments things what others would hesitate to do so; she lives for herself; puts herself first; learning about herself in the process.She is not afraid of her past, or her future. She just experiences the present moment.In the end, all she does is to live at the moment; loves someone without the fear of being alone.👍 👍 Mental & sexual issues have been presented so well without any fear of judgement.👍 Reading this book is so liberating!👍 If you want to know what ultimate acceptance of being yourself is, just pick up this book👌👍 This book is so different in comparison to other books by the same author.👍 Recommended especially for those who feel like life has nothing more to offer.Just read it!

"The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night.Nietzsche" “I need a sign, that things are gonna change. I need a reason to go on. I need some hope. And in the absence of hope, I need to stay in bed and feel like I might die today.Meredith Grey, Grey’s Anatomy" "An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.""But humans are all alike, she thought. We have replaced nearly all of our emotions with fear."This book allows the reader to reevaluate the importance of life and that each day is precious … not to be wasted.Coelho discusses Conformity, society norms and its danger, Madness/insanity and what they really mean within the chains of society norms, Death and life and how knowing that death is imminent changes your perception of life.===================================“Insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there. We've all felt that. And all of us, one way or another, are insane.” -----------------------“Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other?” -----------------------"She went to work every day, always keeping to the same timetable, always making sure she wasn’t perceived as a threat by her superiors; she was content; she didn’t struggle, and so she didn’t grow"----------------------- “Two of the hardest decisions in life: the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter.” -----------------------“An intense life needs a touch of madness.”-----------------------" A lot of people go through the same difficulties we went through, and they react completely differently. We looked for the easiest way out: a separate reality."-----------------------“I once saw a woman wearing a low-cut dress; she had a glazed look in her eyes, and she was walking the streets of Ljubljana when it was five degrees below zero. I thought she must be drunk, and I went to help her, but she refused my offer to lend her my jacket. Perhaps in her world it was summer and her body was warmed by the desire of the person waiting for her. Even if that person only existed in her delirium, she had the right to live and die as she wanted, don’t you think?”Veronika didn’t know what to say, but the madwoman’s words made sense to her. Who knows; perhaps she was the woman who had been seen half-naked walking the streets of Ljubljana?“I’m going to tell you a story,” said Zedka. “A powerful wizard, who wanted to destroy an entire kingdom, placed a magic potion in the well from which all the inhabitants drank. Whoever drank that water would go mad.“The following morning, the whole population drank from the well and they all went mad, apart from the king and his family, who had a well set aside for them alone, which the magician had not managed to poison. The king was worried and tried to control the population by issuing a series of edicts governing security and public health. The policemen and the inspectors, however, had also drunk the poisoned water, and they thought the king’s decisions were absurd and resolved to take no notice of them.“When the inhabitants of the kingdom heard these decrees, they became convinced that the king had gone mad and was now giving nonsensical orders. They marched on the castle and called for his abdication.“In despair the king prepared to step down from the throne, but the queen stopped him, saying: ‘Let us go and drink from the communal well. Then we will be the same as them.’“And that was what they did: The king and the queen drank the water of madness and immediately began talking nonsense. Their subjects repented at once; now that the king was displaying such wisdom, why not allow him to continue ruling the country?“The country continued to live in peace, although its inhabitants behaved very differently from those of its neighbors. And the king was able to govern until the end of his days.”Veronika laughed.“You don’t seem crazy at all,” she said.“But I am, although I’m undergoing treatment since my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. While I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being crazy, living my life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?”“People who have all drunk from the same well.”“Exactly,” said Zedka. “They think they’re normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I’m going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.”

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.Veronika uses her remaining time to reflect and through her own self-discovery she realizes that she should have been more open to feelings, and more importantly life itself.As with the Alchemist, I read it with a pencil in hand. Below are several of the most poignant parts that I had underlined."But humans are all alike, she thought. We have replaced nearly all of our emotions with fear.""Veronika did a her mother asked, sure that her mother had enough experience of life to understand reality. She finished her studies, went to university, got a good degree, but ended up working as a librarian. "I should have been crazier." But, as it undoubtedly happens with most people, she had found this out too late.""No one should let themselves get used to anything.""You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.""I do have a chance to live. Am I making good use of it?""I've got a lot to do, things that I have postponed for some future date, in the days when I thought life would last forever.""Basically everything that happens in our life is our fault, and our fault alone."... because I need to run the risk of being alive.""No. You're someone who is different, but that wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness.""The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.""An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.""She would consider each day a miracle-which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.""You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.""I do have a chance to live. am I making good use of it?""I've got a lot to do, things that i have postponed for some future date, in the days when i thought life would last forever.""Basically everything that happens in our life is our fault, and our fault alone."... because i need to run the risk of being alive.""No. You're someone who is different, but that wants to be the same an everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness.""The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.""An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.""She would consider each day a miracle-which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences."

5 ‘madness’ stars”An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely."This book is insane!! This is such a spiritual/philosophical book that discusses a lot of issues. 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.The happier people can be, the unhappier they are.Veronica is a 24 years old lady who is graced with youth, beauty, has a loving family, plenty of boyfriends, and a good job. From an outsider point of view, there’s nothing wrong with her life. So why would a girl like her, who has everything, decides to end her life?After taking a handful of sleeping pills, veronica was surprised to wake up In a mental hospital. Where she was informed that the pills had severely weaken her heart and she has only got about a week to live before her heart stops.”Madness is the inability to communicate your ideas. it’s as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there.”“We've all felt that.” “And all of us, one way or another, are insane.”A week in a mental hospital in a state between life and death allowed Veronica to think about a lot of things, where she kind of starts to think about what she had done and whether she’s really ready to die or not. She starts to actually feel a lot of things. Her presence in the hospital had a huge impact on the other patients. Watching a girl like her slowly dying in front of them affected most of them. Some of the hospital patients also had a kind of impact on Veronica where some helped her understand herself and life more. I liked and sympathized with most of the characters in this book (Mari, Zedka, and of course Eduard) How they all took shelter in the hospital to avoid the outside world and the society who defined them as “insane” was heartbreaking. Personally, I think that the psychiatrist, Dr Igor, is the craziest person in this book! Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.This was a such a great spiritual philosophical book that makes you think and feel. I loved the madness in this book and how they talked about it. It’s such a sad thing that some think just because you’re different or think differently then you’re mad. It’s really sad that artistic people are thought to be insane. Even Paulo Cohelo himself was thought to be mad just because he chose to be a writer. Anyone who lives in their own world is mad.Song recommendation:Saint Veronica by Billy Talent*The song was actually based on this book!

I have picked up this book from this year's book fair. My eyes went on this book and I knew I had to buy this book. I have read Paulo Coelho's work before and I have loved it so I was eager to know what this book contains.Veronika is a beautiful, attractive girl, has a basic job and a comfortable living. She finds no excitement in her life and so she finally decides to end it but her attempt was foul. And she ends up in a mental hospital where she finds out that she has limited days to live. But the things that happen in that mental hospital changes her life and she ends up wanting to live again. If you want to find out what happened in that hospital you have to read the book.I loved the character of Veronika and I have also found similarities between her and myself. Her character is written beautifully along with the characters of Zedka who was in the hospital for her depression, Mari who was there for her anxiety attacks but her illness has been long cured but she still choose to be in the mental hospital, and finally Eduard the schizophrenic and also Veronika's lover. The storyline for these characters is spellbound.Although this book does start negatively and you may feel depressed reading the first few pages but I want to tell you that hold on it does get better in the end. Also if you are someone who likes to read peculiar love stories than this book might be it but by saying this that if you think that this book is some romance novel than no but it does feature peculiar romance towards the end. I don't think this book is for everyone, you'll either love it or hate it, in my opinion, I loved this book and I might even read it again in the future.Some of my favorite lines from the book are below.I want to continue being mad, living my life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be.The "mad" always believe in first impressionsAlthough she had always felt loved and protected, there had been one missing element that would have transformed that love into a blessing, she should have allowed herself to be a little madder. ( Favorite of them all)Detailed review link - https://chevusread.blogspot.com/2019/...