It's starts off: "The day will come when the problem of hunger can be solved through the miracle of the multiplication of the bread[…]" Lovely story. And I'm sure Valhalla was the female placing the flowers at the si I was so taken by this book.
And I'm sure Valhalla was the female placing the flowers at the site. Was there a story here? If there was then I missed it. The plot is extremely lacking or at best very difficult to decern. The conversations are boring as the characters jabber on about nothing consequential. I'm being generous in giving it even 1 star.
Ugh, just not a good book. Feb 11, Lisa rated it really liked it. The Valkyries is my third Coelho. Coelho, in this memoir, recounts his journey to speak to and see his guardian angel.
It is a process that involves intense spiritual trials and the ability to challenge your inner demons. In these ways, the book excels. In the beginning of the novel, Coelho meets with his master, a man called J. He receives directions to travel from Brazil to the Mojave Desert, to speak to and to meet his angel in person. Coelho brings his wife Christina with him on this day journey, for he fears that his dissatisfaction with married life will be dissolved if he manages to meet his angel and therefore change his flawed personality.
I know that is not true. So where do the Valkyries come in? The Valkyries is a traveling band of leather-wearing, motorcycle-riding women who preach up and down the Mojave Desert and its surrounding areas. Valhalla also tests his fidelity and his dedication to his wife. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently.
She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe.
I felt in the first half of the novel that I had gotten to know Coelho as a man rather than just a novelist or spiritual figure. This novel is like reading a journal. Or a blog ; However, I found myself relating to Christina more than Paulo. Her spiritual journey is less about proving her power than it is about discovering herself and who she wants to be. Her journey was graceful, open-minded, and not the frantic, chaotic journey Coelho has. Reading this novel did shatter that blind admiration I had for Coelho after reading those first two novels, but it also elicited a strong feeling of respect.
Penning this book required a huge amount of courage and self-awareness, knowing that your personal life and past indiscretions will be read by all your fans. This closeness is what separates Coelho from other authors: the work is almost indistinguishable from the man, which makes for an altogether different reading experience. It is a bit like reading a diary, albeit slightly fictionalized.
And while the tone comes off as both apologetic and rebellious, I did gain new insight into a new favorite author and found the experience rewarding.
More Coelho in future. Shelves: award-winning-books , fiction-contemporary. One week later, he and his wife Christina are on the road to the starkly beautiful yet dangerous Mojave Desert to seek "contacts," people that will help and guide him on a forty day quest to look for the Valkyries, leather clad warrior women who cruise around the desert on motorcycle that will show Paulo, and Christina as well, how to converse with their angels.
I believe the book started out quite strong and, to be honest with you, I was moved by the central question it relates to the reader: "Why do we destroy the things we love most? It also seems to me that Coelho talks down to his reader, well not actually him, but this one concerns the Valkyries whose principles I find too preachy and overtly one-dimensional that it all unsuccessfully made an impression to me.
Even so, The Valkyries retains some of the quintessential Coelho elements and has its share of rosy moments: one that really made an impact to me was when Chris learns "to look at the horizon.
As it is, the book is also peppered with nuggets of wisdom here and there, some of which I quote below: "Someone once said that the Earth produces enough to satisfy needs, but not enough to satisfy greed. View all 5 comments. Initially, I had found the book easily-put-downable. However, there were two things that kept me thumbing through the pages. Firstly, this verse: And each man kills the thing he loves, By all let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword.
My first impression to it was, "That's a total lie! It can't be true for everyone. And I, in turn, wanted to see how this would be done. Secondly, it was the character Chris the wife of Paulo who kept me riveted to the book. Somehow, in some aspects, I could see a reflection of myself in Chris and so I wanted to know how does she overcome her flaws.
As in all his other books, Paulo invites the readers to love, be courageous, and dream! Boring, pedantic and pointless. I rated this book with four stars at start, then I thought about and change it to three. I'm not sure, I don't know how I feel about this book. Just as they say it's a biography of the author with a little bit of fictitious events, so that's why it's different.
It's different when you read fiction, because your are prepared for all sort of supernatural and occult events. It's easy to accept them given the account that they are fabricated, that they are suppose to be the way they are and tha I rated this book with four stars at start, then I thought about and change it to three. It's easy to accept them given the account that they are fabricated, that they are suppose to be the way they are and that there is no limitation to one's imaginations.
But when it comes to biographies and REAL life experiences, so it become hard to accept such occult abstractions, more less the events. But I liked the book, for it's simplicity. Paulo Coelho knows how to express all those weird ideas in simple terms, also to make the simple actions and behaviors notable. It doesn't need much effort to understand what he try to convey.
Half of our relationship problem arises from this, because we fail to distinguish between love and infatuation. Besides He mentioned angels. I've always taken all his accounts about magic and angels metaphorically. We call it intuition. Replace them with terms like instincts, sixth sense, divination, revelation etc. He called them angels and I understand but I never thought about their corporeal existence and I'm not sure if he meant exactly when talking about their appearances and that's the problem, because you never know to take it literally or metaphorically.
I'm curious about the Valkyries, if they really exist. I'm intrigue if there are still those sort of people seeking those sort of magic. I'm unable to comprehend how a person leave everything behind in search for the unknown. He talk about following you dreams, but I don't know what that dream is and how are you suppose to find it. He talk about new world and I'm curious what changes it may bring. He talk about the conspiracy and the occult traditions and I'm curious if it really work the way he showed.
I liked the concept of second mind, The convenience behind small difficulties, and the message about forgiving ourselves and our past and believing in our future.
I had difficulties accepting the events but I liked the message and I think that's what actually matters.
The thing I like most about Coelho books is 'The Quotes'. I loved 'Veronica Decide to die' the most among the books of Coelho, Alchemist to some extent but I did not find it a realistic book, Eleven minuets I loved-it has well pitched to earthy realities.
Valkyries, is well written but it was not my cup of tea. I believe that is for a different group of readers. And I do not criticize the book, it was just I did not like it but it well written and demonstrates the extraordinary story telling skills of the author.
In "The Valkyries" i found a different Coelho, one I didn't like. The message of the book appears to be clear and beautiful, but underneath it all the waters are muddy. I found it really challenging to read; had I not been spending so much time in the airport these days, I might not have finished it at all. Maybe I am just a very conservative christian, but it appears to be clearly stated in the Bible, which Coelho quotes so much, that witchcraft is wrong.
It was hard for me to understand how Christianity goes together with esoteric stuff. As my friend stated it, "it is full of New Age crap". Of course, it might be a completely different experience for others, but I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. View all 4 comments. Sep 13, Tucker rated it liked it.
It was okay. But slowly, this set of daily rituals becomes solidified, and takes us over. We like to complain, but we are reassured by the fact that each day is more or less like every other. At least there is no It was okay. At least there is no unexpected danger. When the ritual becomes consolidated, the person becomes a slave.
The book is about how they both relate to the spiritual quest of the hero, with the wife dragged along and by the end appearing to learn more. I found the story similar to other hero quest stories, but this seemed too familiar, reminding me of late night B movies about witches and demons and such.
Mar 26, Ron Wroblewski rated it it was ok Shelves: paulo-coelho. This book seems a mixture of Don Juan and Og Mandino. Paulo says most of it was true. It is his search in the southwest US of meeting his angel. There are mixtures of religion - New Age, Catholic etc - in the search for a new world. But I don't believe that truly spiritual people would act as some of the ones in the story, especially the Valkyries. Not really a good read for me.
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