i just finished reading Paulo Coelho's novel entitled ELEVEN MINUTES...

it's really good and i found myself falling inlove with another character of his... what's his name? ralf hart... a young famous painter... what was it about him that made me wish the novel was all about him? oh yes... everything about him was charming... and hellishly likable...

maria, the protagonist of the novel, was amazing as well... she showed great feats of wisdom and courage... her beauty that of woman and a child... her personality of multitudes... made me warm up to her so fast i never let the book go...

just so i could entice you guys into reading the book here's the book's summary off it's flap...

A new international bestseller by the author of The Alchemist tells the story if Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whos first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that “Love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer….” A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune. Instead, she ends up working as a prostitute.

In Geneva, Maria drifts further and further away from love as she develops a fascination with sex. Eventually, Maria’s despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness—sexual pleasure for its own sake—or risking everything to find her own “inner light” and the possibility of sacred sex—sex in the context of love.

In this gripping and daring new novel, Paulo Coelho sensitively explores the sacred nature of sex and love, and invites us to confront our own prejudices and demons and to embrace our own “inner light.”

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i met a rather interesting person yesterday... as usual, i went online out of boredom and set off to park myself in a yahoo chatroom... i opted for one of the anime chatrooms and once in i set it aside to do some research...

i recieved an im from a guy named herotolegend... turns out he was the guy asking about hellsing in the chatroom... a question a answered with something i cant really remember...

we talked for hours about anime to our appreciation of sentai shows to our respective country's politics and so much more... it's nice to be able to interact with someone new and apart from the circles i'm used to...

hope more of those existed in the world...

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i need to get my hands on a copy of coelho's other books... my sister has eleven minutes, the alchemist, veronika decides to die, the pilgrimage and by the river piedra i sat down and wept... i have read most of these books but i havent read the alchemist and by the river yet...

neil gaiman must wait for a couple more weeks before i buy his other books...

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win me over with books and various literature...

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