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Alex Michaelides

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Alex Michaelides was born in Cyprus in 1977. He studied English literature at Cambridge University and earned his MA in screenwriting at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. He wrote the film The Devil You Know. His first novel,The Slient Patient, was published in 2019. (Bowker Author näytä lisää Biography) näytä vähemmän

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Syntymäaika
1977
Sukupuoli
male
Kansalaisuus
UK
Cyprus
Syntymäpaikka
Cyprus
Koulutus
American Film Institute, Los Angeles (MA | Screenwriting)
Cambridge University
Ammatit
author
screenwriter
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Alex Michaelides was born in Cyprus to a Greek-Cypriot father and English mother. He has a MA in English Literature from Cambridge University and a MFA in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. The Silent Patient is his first novel.

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Fantastic read! Honestly it’s not hard to figure out part of the ending but I certainly didn’t have it all sorted and it was an excellent twist. I really enjoyed Michaelides writing and the short chapters made it seem like a quick read. Great first novel and I hope he writes more.
 
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jbrownleo | 443 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 27, 2024 |
Jeez crumpets, what a miserable collection of flat, awful characters this was. No one was likeable or compelling. I call bullshit on a lot of the "psychotherapy" that happens here, and especially on the attitudes of the doctors and the way the ward is run. (Is this because of the unreliable narrator? Maybe? Who cares?) The story tripped along, but I never felt terribly engaged or particularly confident that I was going to be happy I stuck around to see how it came out. The twist made me go "Wait. Huh? Oh. I guess?" It felt tricksy and cheatsy instead of well-crafted. I felt like the author was being manipulative rather than performing excellent misdirection. What I *thought* was going on was a lot more compelling to me (and less outright twisty) than what really was. And even though I felt cheated by the twist, I'm not even particularly annoyed? It doesn't even rise to that. I shrugged at the thing generally, I shrugged at the twist, and now I shrug at the manipulation. For book club, or I probably would have stopped bothering about halfway through.… (lisätietoja)
 
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lycomayflower | 443 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 26, 2024 |
How do you make a best-selling novel out of a story in which the main character, other than the narrator, remains silent? Alex Michaelides found a way in “The Silent Patient” (2019).

Alicia Berenson, a gifted artist, is arrested for murdering her husband by shooting him in the face while he was tied to a chair. Questions remain, like how did she manage to tie him to the chair before shooting him? But she refuses to answer them or to say anything at all. For years.

Theo Faber is a 42-year-old psychotherapist determined to find answers, if not from Alicia then from others who knew her before the killing. Thus the novel becomes part psychological thriller and part murder mystery.

Theo has personal problems of his own. He discovers that his beautiful wife is secretly meeting with another man. Rather than confronting her, he follows her, as well as the man she is having the affair with. He contemplates murder. Here the otherwise original novel becomes cliche — the psychotherapist may be as crazy as the patient.

Things begin to come into focus when a silent Alicia hands Theo her secret diary, and at last she begins to speak. But Michaelides holds the final surprises for the exciting climax.

This is a nearly first-rate novel that deserves its best-selling status.
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hardlyhardy | 443 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 25, 2024 |
Alicia is found standing over her husband's body with blood all over her and a smoking gun in her hand. The cops charge her with murder. She does not say anything at all. She is remanded to a psychiatric hospital instead of prison. Theo is a psychotherapist who hopes to help her speak again so she can tell what happened the night her husband was murdered.

Wow! I did not think I was going to like this as I am not a big fan of psychological thrillers, but I LOVED it! I don't want to tell too much because I don't want to ruin it. The writing is phenomenal. It draws you in from the first page. There is so much about the book that I liked and that shocked me. Never saw some of this stuff coming.

WORTH THE READ!
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Sheila1957 | 443 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 16, 2024 |

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