evelyn toma

The story is for 12year old girls, nothing more. Got an audiobook to check what was all this hype about - not worth it at all. I'm on the 10th chapter and there were only two scenes with the dragons that were only their description. The rest is a teenage drama. A lot of "f*cks" and "sh*ts". Heroes are so cliche - a girl and two guys, one is bad one is good. While listening to this audiobook I couldn't stop rolling my eyes from the cringe. Do not recommend unless you are 12-ish y.o. girl.

So Eckhart Tolle is just a guy who woke up one night "awakened" and decided to share his "wisdom"? First of all, right from the introduction neither his style nor content of the book gain my trust. My personal opinion is that the whole book feels like some random passer by is trying to teach me about the concept he came up in the night such as "pain-body". Although, many ideas are good and taken from other philosophies and traditions. Well, we should not argue about the tastes and likes but I'm giving it 1/5 stars

Not that I read many books by Dan Brown, ("Origin" being second after "Da Vinci code" that I read), "Origin", I should say, is a good one. Spain and its historical cites and state-of-the-art architecture are described in a beautiful language. Facts and mythology is captivating and as it was said in one of the previous reviews is a reason in itself to read the book. Also I would agree that the Kirsch's discovery was not that satisfying I will say in defense of Brown that we should not expect a whole scientific theory or straightforward evidence of the beginning of life on Earth in a novel. Brown's knowledge of science is as broad as his knowledge of art and he did a great job at coming up with the idea. Sometimes I felt a bit annoyed at the stretch of prelude before learning what the discovery actually was. Taking one star because of that. MIGHT BE A SPOILER: I would like to add that the plot was in some way similar to one from "Da Vinci Code" so it was not hard to guess who was giving the orders to murder, though a bit harder to guess why. Beautiful description of locations, lots of interesting facts, theories and ideas to think over.

When I just started reading this book I thought it was bad. I could not stand the style and the Death being a narrator seemed ridiculous. I read some reviews and agreed with bad ones, but I decided to continue reading anyways and OMG what a great book it is! It is so sad and at the same time so beautiful. The story, characters are deep, full of sense and emotion, language is so exquisite. It's hard to put the book down. Thank you Markus Zusak for your work, it is truly a masterpiece. P.s: I love Rudy so much 😭