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3.16 AVERAGE
3.16 AVERAGE
fizaaaa's review against another edition
2.0
This book bored me so much 😠although I loved the title and cover, some of the quotes of the book are worth mentioning but I just can't read it completely.....
The plot for me is very slow!
The plot for me is very slow!
anuragicious's review against another edition
5.0
This book was a gift from my ex. It's quite different from the normal style of Paulo. I loved the story and the themes. A gift to remember
raven_the_clover_moth's review against another edition
Bought the book back in 2015 or so, started it not once but thrice !!! over the years and could not get past the first give or take 15 pages of a pocket book.
The characters are unlikable, all we see is a man, depressed, venting about how the world is unfair to him and rotten. I kinda felt trapped in that doomed-maximalist-emo-teen mindset. I’m not wasting my time on all that.
The characters are unlikable, all we see is a man, depressed, venting about how the world is unfair to him and rotten. I kinda felt trapped in that doomed-maximalist-emo-teen mindset. I’m not wasting my time on all that.
linn1378's review against another edition
1.0
La "moda" no es más que una forma de decir "pertenezco a tu mundo, utilizo el mismo uniforme que tu ejército, no dispares en esta dirección."
Y eso no me interesa en absoluto.
Y eso no me interesa en absoluto.
marirose_wordsmith's review against another edition
3.0
This book had an intriguing narrative that takes you through the perspective of a killer, and the lives of those around him he destroys. It was a good read, but I didn't like the ending.
jasnahwit94's review against another edition
4.0
it was cold at times and so real at others but like Paulo Coelho other books at was all metaphoric and little dark at times but it is worth a read and is gripping.
runslikesnail's review against another edition
3.0
I would have given it a strong four stars, but it lost me in the last 30 pages or so.
viktoriya's review against another edition
2.0
I am a little conflicted about this book. On one hand it kept me interested and I kept reading it, and on the other hand, I was confused most of the time. Was it really necessary to give a lecture on what champagne is? On how money laundering works? On how movies are distributed? I don't think so.
laurtiv's review against another edition
3.0
I love Coehlo...whatever he writes...I love. I enjoyed "The Winner Stands Alone" because of the transcendent themes: love (which is in all of his books), vanity, and ego. The book is set during the Cannes film festival and follows the ego of a Russian-born killer for lack of a better word as he stalks his wife and her new husband and kills a few souls along the way to send her a "message."
My review isn't going to do Coehlo justice, but I love how the character who is the most "true" to herself "Stands Alone" (hence the title) and those that claw or marry their way to the top in essence get what's coming to them. It's a treatise on today's society set in one of the worlds glamorous and opulent events--and it's worth a read.
My review isn't going to do Coehlo justice, but I love how the character who is the most "true" to herself "Stands Alone" (hence the title) and those that claw or marry their way to the top in essence get what's coming to them. It's a treatise on today's society set in one of the worlds glamorous and opulent events--and it's worth a read.
berilheral's review against another edition
read this during 76th cannes film festival and it's stunning how much of the backstage info with the festival is still true...