Name: Adultery
Rating: 3.173469387755102 (49 reviews)
ISBN: 9781101874080

Paulo Coelho

"A woman around her thirties begins to question the routine and predictability of her days. In everybody's eyes, she has a perfect life: a solid and stable marriage, a loving husband, sweet and well-behaved children and a job as a journalist she can't complain about. However, she can no longer bear the necessary effort to fake happiness when all she feels in life is an enormous apathy. All that changes when she encounters an ex-boyfriend from her adolescence. Jacob is now a successful politician and, during an interview, he ends up arousing something in her she hadn't felt for a long time: passion" --

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Adultery

Razi Syed

"I haven't the slightest interest in being happy," he says defiantly. "I prefer to live life passionately, which is dangerous because you never know what might happen next."

Jennifer

This book should be called "Depression and Anxiety". I guess if you've never been depressed and/or had anxiety, here's a book that tries to explain what it feels like, through the lens of an obnoxious, rich, selfish, miserable, white person crying about their perfect life due to undiagnosed mental illness (depression/anxiety) and ennui with everything being so perfect (aka too overly entitled and disengaged for their own good). Then, Coelho begins describing very real thoughts about depression/anxiety in one's day-to-day life. If you've ever been depressed/anxious, you can relate. Mostly with Linda's blatant denial of her situation and her lecturing other people on what is "socially acceptable" to say to someone who admits they are depressed and/or anxious. Linda is a lost, lonely soul in desperate need of counseling. Though yes, she does try to find a therapist at one point, she is unsatisfied with what she finds. A common problem in society, sure, but if you're truly willing to find help, you will make it a priority to find a therapist you like, and not just give up when you've tried 3 out of a whole city of counselors/therapists. Finally, at some point, the adulterous relationship is consummated and it's (expectedly) terrible. I guess if the reader was thinking of committing such an act, this book is a great resource for This Is What Happens When You Cheat, And It's Terrible. This character is one-dimensional and boring. Why was this even written? Aren't there other stories that more artistically and interestingly describe cheating and marriage? This book was painful to read and I finished it out of principle (I told myself to finish the books I read this year). [spoilers removed] TL;DR: Miserably depressed lady cheats. Got bored with boring woman. Stupid ending.

Took me 2 years to finish this book because I didn't want it to end.

Walker Avila

Patrick Book

About so much more than adultery, this is an analysis of the darkest parts of the soul in contrast with the brightest. I don't read much philosophy, but this raises some significant and interesting questions about fidelity, happiness, and love.

Ayesha ahmed

Ok this is a 1.5 to be fair, because I loved the paragliding and the happy ending part. But, if I knew this book was what it was all about I would have not read it at all, it actually made me feel sick.

Fleur van Ravesteijn 

Far less inspiring than The Alchemist to me, but still quite insightful. Interesting detail that we never get to know the husband’s name.

alali moe

I basically bought the book because of all the advertising I saw on the author's page, and another reason was the name of the book. I enjoyed it so much but to be frank the story lost its charm near the end. It started off very interesting to me and I lost interest with every page I flipped until I finished it. I would recommend it to people who haven't read such stories because it gives insight into marriage love and lust.

Hazal Özlem

** spoiler alert **
           Okuduğum bir süre boyunca kitabı Coelho’nun yazdığına inanmadım, basit bir mutlu ev kadını hezeyanı ve aldatma olayı idi, öyle de bitti ama Coelho’nun sona doğru yine yeniden açtığı ışıklı pencereyi açtığını görmek beni mutlu etti. Satır aralarında keşfedilmeyi bekleyen; yaşamın anlamı, sevgi, gerçek sevgi tanımlarını yine sevdim. 
“... zamanı durduramayız, durdurmamalıyız da zaten. Bilgelik ve tecrübe insanı olduğundan farklı birine dönüştürmez. Zaman insanı olduğundan farklı birine dönüştürmez. İnsanı olduğundan farklı birine dönüştüren tek şey sevgidir.”

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Shameera Nair Lin

A hot mess, from start to finish. Don't bother reading this -- the author has written much better books.

Dijan Teymur

It is so disturbing to read what any person can goes through but never talk even admit about.

A woman around her thirties begins to question the routine and predictability of her days. In everybody's eyes, she has a perfect life: a solid and stable marriage, a loving husband, sweet and well-behaved children and a job as a journalist she can't complain about. However, she can no longer bear the necessary effort to fake happiness when all she feels in life is an enormous apathy. All that changes when she encounters an ex-boyfriend from her adolescence. Jacob is now a successful politician and, during an interview, he ends up arousing something in her she hadn't felt for a long time: passion.

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Nicole Sargent-Carberry

I really hated the Alchemist but something about this was alluring to me. I enjoyed it for the most part, I resonated with questioning my happiness and wondering if something is better out there (I have a serious case of FOMO about everything). My issue is that Coehlo always tries so hard to be introspective. I felt like he hid that well for most of the book but the last 50 pages were back to his old ways. I’m glad I read it but probably won’t read it again!

Younes Ben Amara

الترجمة سيئة لكن الرواية لا بأس بها .

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Linda, in her thirties, begins to question the routine and predictability of her days. In everybody’s eyes, she has a perfect life: happy marriage, children, and a career. Yet what she feels is an enormous sense of dissatisfaction. All that changes when she encounters a successful politician who had, years earlier, been her high-school boyfriend. As she rediscovers the passion missing from her life, she will face a life-altering choice.

Adultery a novel

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