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One of the best book I've ever read !! I am french and it was really easy to understand, I was transported by the story of the book !! Just amazing.

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Touchant, profond et incroyablement palpitant

B.Chl

Commenté en France le 29 septembre 2021

Ce livre est plus qu'une découverte, je n'en attendais rien, si ce n'est quelques points positifs déjà mis en avant par les critiques du NYT ou autre. Et pourtant ! Ce livre est une vraie pépite dans son genre, mêlant philosophie, fiction, existentialisme. Je n'en attendais rien et j'y ai trouvé beaucoup, beaucoup plus qu'un simple petit roman de chevet. L'histoire se tient bien, les références scientifiques, géographiques, philosophiques sont d'une justesse à souligner, bien loin d'être seulement une culture de surface (pour le genre qui ne reste, après tout, qu'un roman, le travail de fond y est beaucoup plus important que ce que la littérature moderne nous offre d'habitude).
Concernant l'anglais il n'est ni trop dur, ni pas assez, certaines tournures sont remarquablement jolies même si le fond reste définitivement le plus gros point fort de l'oeuvre moins que la forme.

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Amazon Customer

Trite

Commenté en France le 27 août 2021

I’m sure this book was written to inspire, to show the reader that the grass isn’t greener, that this life is the only one we have and we should live it to the full. I managed to plough through almost half of this book before checking that the end was as predictable as I expected. Sorry - tedious, preachy and predictable!

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Anna K

Inspirational

Commenté en France le 28 janvier 2021

One of the best books I read last year. Perhaps it resonates with confinement and looking for an escape and exploring different possibilities of existence, of daily choices we make, and re-thinking our regrets and hopes. An easy read but inspires many reflections. Glad to have discovered this author.

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LL. (Paris)

Une grande déception

Commenté en France le 12 novembre 2021

Une grande déception. Avec un excellent sujet, l’auteur nous entraine dans la vie d’une jeune femme paumée et dépressive. Toutes les « vies alternatives »qu’elle va traverser sont excessives, avec des personnages ridicules. Les passages « philosophiques » enfoncent les portes ouvertes. On espère jusqu’au bout un retournement interessant, mais c’est franchement un mauvais livre.. Passez votre chemin !

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Cristina Gompertz

An amazing book

Commenté en France le 27 novembre 2020

I loved this book.Not quite a fantasy book nor a conventional one. But an ode to life. Precous in thèse troubled times.

4 personnes ont trouvé cela utile

Well written, thought - provoking book

Rosa Mundi

Commenté en France le 30 mai 2021

An excellent thought - provoking book, which I read in two sittings, I couldn’t wait to discover the end! It made me look at my own life choices again - no bad thing! Highly recommended

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AMRK

Great read

Commenté en France le 22 mai 2022

Not often I pick up a book that captures my imagination but this one certainly hit the spot. Very thought provoking and insightful. I learnt something about myself by reading this well written and delightful story.

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BTPBookClub

Life changing. Powerful. Amazing. Beautiful. Uplifting. A must read.

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 16 août 2020

I don't think I can do this book/review enough justice but I'm going to give it my best shot... If there is one book I would urge you and shout at you to buy it would be this on. Go do it. Treat yourself You will not regret it. I promise. This is going straight into my top twenty of the year reads. I've awarded it five stars and I'd award more if I could! How do I start?

I must admit it's not what I expected at all. But I feel it was just what I needed right now honestly. This book is going to be huge. This book for me was amazing, outstanding, life changing, powerful and thought provoking. Honestly have you ever felt so low you wanted to die? Then this book is for you. It will change your whole perspective on life. It has for me. It's taught me A LOT of life lessons and how I see my life. I actually have fallen in love with this book and I don't say that lightly.

I don't want to ruin this for anyone but if you could view every possible outcome of your life would you? Would you ever be happy? Just wow. It's taught me to open my eyes, appreciate what I have not what I want. Life is life. Life is beautiful. I loved it all. I devoured it in a day. Beautifully told. An easy read for me done in a day but one I felt I NEEDED to read right at this moment in my life. Now this is my review others may feel differently about this book and some may hate it. But I cant explain how much I loved, enjoyed and needed this book. One I can always go back too when I'm feeling low. Uplifting.

So thank you Matt. Absolutely brilliant. Grateful. It's really made me think and I miss it already. Perfection.

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alifabw

Really disppointing

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 8 septembre 2020

I bought this based on all the 5-star reviews and having read and enjoyed Matt Haig's children's books. It was an interesting premise and I found that I was thinking about the story a lot, but not in a good way! I felt that it treated a serious subject (suicide) in a very trite way and I was left feeling that I had just been preached at/lectured about the important things in life. Although I could accept the idea of parallel universes I found it unbelievable that Nora could be a world-class performer in so many different fields and the book actually left me feeling angry at the ease with which everything was resolved at the end.

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Kindle Customer

Bleedin brilliant

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 13 août 2020

I f****** love this book. Matt haig is the most reassuring and comforting author i have ever read. Once I nearly died and after I realised my issue was not with life but with being alive and not living, this book captures so much of that. I read it all today and ironically it is nearly midnight.

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dandelion

Great idea, poor execution

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 8 novembre 2020

After reading the sample I had downloaded, I was completely hooked and bought the book immediately. I found the description of the state of mind of the heroin compelling and convincing. However, 2 chapters later, it was already clear what the morale of the story was going to be, and unfortunately, it was conventional and lazy writing.
***SPOILER ALERT***
The heroin goes from one life to the next realising slowly that, after all, she is important and her life is good and that she does want to live. Admirable sentiment but has been done tons of times before. What could have been a nuanced story about the human condition became a predictable, boring plot. It's a shame, it could have been a fascinating story.

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Patrick F

Predictable, Simple, Ultimately Pretty Boring

Commenté aux États-Unis le 2 octobre 2020

Disappointingly trite.

I was looking forward to this book. In fact, it’s the first book in years that I actually pre-ordered. The premise is interesting enough: there is an ethereal library that exists between life and death. You are permitted to choose any book from the shelves and each book contains an alternative life. Each life is what would have resulted if you changed a single decision you regretted. Interesting, right? Like you could see what would have happened if you’d gone for that coffee date or pursued that master’s degree or kept playing piano. In the midst of each new life, if the life-hopper finds herself disappointed, she winds up back at the library to try again. Eventually, you’ll either find a life that is the best possible outcome or your “root life” blinks you away into death.

Unfortunately, the premise is played out in the most expected way possible. Nora Seed reverses her regrets and realizes that even the best alternate universes have uncertainties and pain and sadness and disappointment. Even when she winds up with her dream job and a great family, she can’t stay to play this life out. Why? Well, because it isn’t really “hers.” So, surprise, surprise, she ends up waking up from her suicide attempt with a new appreciation for the life she once had and longed to depart.

If you read the first 30-40 pages of this book, you’ll probably be able to write the rest of it in your mind. It’s supposedly an opportunity to explore infinite universes, so why choose the most predictable course of actions? To get across the point that you ought to realize the beauty of the life we have around us? Just write a greeting card to convey the message; an entire book is unnecessary. Additionally, it seems like the author either doesn’t understand or chose not to really explore the idea of infinite options. In all her lives, the most remarkably unique one is granted one sentence of exploration, “In one life she only ate toast” (212). Every other life is just variations on themes of work, friends, romantic partners, and family. Of the infinite possibilities available to explore, nothing unexpected happens. It’s maddening as the author keeps smashing his readers over the head with ideas that anything might happen while never delivering on the promise.

The writing style is difficult to evaluate. It just feels there. Sentence after sentence slowly moving the predictable story forward. It’s utilitarian prose lacking poetry and depth--seemingly at odds with a book that is attempting to spelunk the internal caverns of a deeply depressed person. The author constantly quotes philosophers but doesn’t seem to have any real interest in engaging seriously with philosophical ideas. It’s a novel in form but a cheesy self-help book in content. This novel is a seed of an interesting idea which was never cared for and died below ground. Unfortunate.

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