
He is to the literature to me what Sachin Tendulkar to the cricket . whatever he writes , words of life for me ,he forces me to redefine the rules of my life. he can lit fire in many of our inner urges. and this all i have understood after reading just two books THE ALCHEMIST and ELEVEN MINUTES
I have just no words for the first one millions of white pages colored only in praise for this.
One day when me and jas were on the nayi sadak in delhi i picked eleven minutes just for shake of having a paulho coelho’s work.After two months when I saw seriously at this book oh! this is a romantic book (personally i don’t like these) but bcoz of 70 bucks i used to purchase this one .i stated reading on a rainy sunday eve.The start has affected me so much
look at the start of the book
“Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria.Wait a minute. ‘Once upon a time’ is how all the best
children’s stories begin and ‘prostitute’ is a word for adults. How can I start a book with this apparent
contradiction? But since, at every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss,let’s keep that beginning.”
afte turning some middle pages(i have this bad habit before reading any book or magzine )
“arey!!! ye to aisi book hai” “mujhe ise ghar walon se door rakhni chahiye”(till that moment no one knew paulo coelho in my home )everybody at home was asking me kiski book hai(which author),kis bare me hai?
aisa title kyon hai?and agony for me that it is based on “SEX” the strictly prohibited subject in indian homes
and the title “ELEVEN MINUTES”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it is the most appropriate title till date,(the calculated one)but what could i say about that!!! ha ha ha
simply a must read for all above 20. sensitively explores the sacred nature of sex and love and invites us to confront our own prejudices and demons and embrace our inner light .
And those extract from maria’s diary ,simply awesome!!! and it is not for every book on the sex you can advice your younger brother to read .(I think this one sentence is suffucient..).