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Loudest Debute with Silent Patient by ALEX MICHAELIDES

In the world of blogosphere everyone is raving about this book, calling the Perfect Thriller, relentlessly pulls you in and doesn’t let you go, Destined to go as one of the most Shocking, Mind-Blowing twist in the recent times and on and on. In Good reads, 415,737 readers rated it 4.09 stars. So how I can miss this masterpiece and started reading THE SILENT PATIENT.

The book starts with this inscrutable quote from one of the famous Greek tragedies ‘Alcestis’ by Playwright Euripides. – “But why does she not speak?”(In the story  Alcestis the wife of Admetus, willingly sacrifices her life for that of her husband, dying in his place when no one else will and when she comes back from dead she goes silent will never speak)

 In the prologue, we will see the notes from the diary of Alicia Brenson a famous painter married to a fashion photographer (Gabriel). In the Dairy, she expresses how much she loves him and she’ll do anything for him and would never want to distress him or make him unhappy or cause him any pain. It is evident that she’s madly in love with Gabriel.

And then right in the 1st chapter 1st  line BANG! Alicia Brenson killed her Husband shooting 5 bullets straight in the head blowing his brains out, and Alicia got deep cuts from a knife across the veins in her wrists blood flowing out her to death. Right from that moment she becomes silent without showing any remorse or any other emotion, just deep blank dead silence and it passed from days to months and from months to years and it was left to fate to decide when she will speak. At this point Theo Faber a psychotherapist comes in to picture like a Godsend angle, a savior like Hercules in Alcestis to rescue Alicia.

The Michaelides, writer of the book used a number of quotes from Greek tragedy plays, Sigmund Freud, Sartre, Shakespeare in every Part at the start of a new chapter, that subconsciously builds curious and mystifying effect beforehand you begin the chapter.

 “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later, in uglier ways. —SIGMUND FREUD”

So it all started pretty strong in the beginning the setup of the story the impact from the parallels drawn between Alicia’s story and that of Alcestis and the surrounding intrigues is fantastic. (Like the Parasite movie, if we take away the class concept, the economic disparities of high class and low class from the story and just one family is evading the other for survival it wouldn't be universally appealing and become a masterpiece). Similarly, Michaelides tried to induce the mythical concept into domestic crime and played it well for the most part. But after a few chapters, it all started to fall apart missing the logics in crucial times and emphasizing more on deceiving the audience for giving the astounding effect of the final twist. The writer took his chances where ever he wants and wrote it to give effect and impact leaving the fact, if you don’t mind overlooking them then it will be a masterpiece read.

Theo Faber instead of doing psychotherapy for Alicia, helping her to speak and come out of her silence shell and unveil the truth behind her silence and why did she kill her husband, Instead he played detective investigating and questioning around people involved in her life from family to neighbor. 

This is a beautifully crafted thriller that will give you no Chills, and I wished to have that moment where I forgot to breathe holding up intense while reading at least on a page.

Between, I loved a few beautiful quotes from the book....

“Remember, love that doesn't include honesty doesn't deserve to be called love.”

“For some reason, I couldn’t stop thinking about the homeless man. Apart from pity, there was another feeling, unnameable somehow—a kind of fear. I pictured him as a baby in his mother’s arms. Did she ever imagine her baby would end up crazy, dirty and stinking, huddled on the pavement, muttering obscenities?”

“Choosing a lover is a lot like choosing a therapist. We need to ask ourselves, is this someone who will be honest with me, listen to criticism, admit making mistakes, and not promise the impossible?”

“About how we often mistake love for fireworks—for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still. It’s boring if seen from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep and calm—and constant.”

Bleady illusions......Fcukng Realization........!!!

 This is TRUE.............

            The sky is  dark n cloudy like my mind overlapped by fcukig ridiculous thoughts n something inside my heart started startling me as if someone taking control over me and i'm letting this negative ideas eating my mind which leads to couple of questions like  why i should feel like this, Becoz todays horoscope hinted me that i'm gonna met with an accident may be deadly. so,.. as i'm too greedy towards my life i'm feeling like this where i'm strucked and confused like a...... pessimist who sees the difficulty in every opportunity; draining my couple of imp.enjoyable minutes of my life........and got to the conclusion that "these signs of zodiac makes us discover a great deal of irrelevant information about ourself...

       Like an optimist to take a break from freaking out i headed toward canteen of our college as time is runing out 2:30pm, in the way i met  kalpana (this is not her real name.....for some reasons i'm not revealing her name)a very good friend of mine. she companied me to finish my lunch successfully...In the mean of our chat, she pointed out a guy far away from us to say some thing about him like all girls does..


she:do u know him wearing green shirt.

me: yeah..but never spoken

she: hey!! he's  very soft,caring, speaks too sweetly that makes him lovable fellow.

me: do u love him...(laughing)

she: no .....!!!(seeing sharply to me)

me:i know why! becoz these sweet guys head to find new boy friends only right...any ways they were ment for that only(laughing).

she:stop it yaar..!!! my sister n and lot of friends likes him alot u know....
me: ok madam !!!
 {after that for a while we had a small conversation about  her sister n went off}

       In the evening its raining badly to ecape from it i ran and stopped near an old building to halt and there i find kalpana's sister and some of her classmates waiting there,it smell's vile as surroundings look ghastly with a well 10 feet away beside a tree looking blurr.....every one is chatting seriously like the world is not ours,but kalpana's  sister look lonesome as if sitting in the dark that made me to look at her curiously why ? suddenly she stood up and stepped her way towards the well like the rain drops falling over the roof my heartbeat started pounding as she reached and looked back where her face shows she is in the midoff darkness,distant from helping hands some evil in the air manipulating her,as the thoughts were circulating in my mind she jumped in to the well, the moment she fell my legs struck their ,my knees were so weak i couldn't get my self to run and look over..... .............as some one is hitting me on my back i turned back and find it's my roommate who woke me up instructing me ur phone is ringing and i'm in my room with this idiotic nightmare(dream)............

              i got up and taken a deep breath,relaxed for a second and started to note down this ominous dream to get clarify things that..... i met kalpana in college just had a chat and left to my room that's it....may be we spoke about her sister and due to my bad morning  she might come in dream killing herself...............

THINGS


1.After reading fortune what i observed in me is while crossing road every vehicle looks going at 100km speed and even the cycle vala going to hit me ..
2.I observed a snake falling in to the well after she jumped (in dream)
        snake is referred to satan(evil) in bible..

EPILOGUE:


From this i wanna say that both  LIFE  & DREAM  are not, as real as we think.so don't bother to the strange happenings around u.....n....start enjoying every second of ur life thinking the WORLD IS ILLUSION..


PHRASES RELATING :
1.All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them;but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orhaned souls.                                                                        --- Rosalia Castro.
2.Fear is the most damnable,damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
                                                                                                                                      --William Faulkner.
3.He that fears not the future may enjoy the present
                                                                                                                                     --- Thomas fuller.
4.Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true pogress ..
                                                                                                                          -- Nicolas Murray Butler.