Dec 29, 2009 10:13 AM
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I have read almost all the books of Paulo coelho, but this book is completely different from the other books of the same author. Why would someone kill the others to send a message for the person he love? Celebrity, fame, power and even money, are not the small things. All these things require greater sacrifices.
We all are familiar with the Cannes film festival. We watch it on T.V, read about it in newspapers and there are thousand of magazines filled with the vibrating details of festival. Yet we know nothing about the hardship and pseudo life lived by the stars.
Paulo takes you on a journey where you can peek in the backstage of the stars, directors, photographers, and skinny models.
There are four main characters in this book, and all are interlinked. At one point all stories met at one central point that arises a question, Is life worth to living and why one would ever think of being a star.
The main character is Igor a Russian businessman, who had a troubling childhood and worked quite hard to make a position in the world of business. On the one hand he is a man of principal and ethics, while on other hand he is portrayed as a serial killer, who kill so many people to win the love of his wife.
The book defines a rare question. What do we mean by the term” normal”. Does normal means a right combination of good and bad, or devil and god. At one point we all witness good and evil, so it is a constant war between good and bad.
The book defines another term the super class. Super class has nothing to prove themselves, their decisions matters, they can get away with anything including murder of the innocent. Girls even die to sleep with super classes. The only thing matter is the one yes and no of the super classes. It is just opposite of the images that we have in our mind that a wrong must be punished and right must be rewarded.
The conclusion of the book is good; you should stand for some thing not to fall for everything. Read it for the millions of questions haunted us every day or for the darker side of being celebrity. The million dollar question is all what we try to achieve in lifetime is worth full .
