The Secret Magdalene, (Paperback)

from AnneWoodbridge

A book to read and read again, to savor and thrill to and learn from. A book to cry over and gnaw off your fingernails too. In short a great read. It also, without trying, teaches you all that stuff other books preach about in the most intriguing and involving way.

from Heremebe

I'd just read Gilbert's "Eat, Pray, Love" and found it both intriguing as well as annoying. I don't have the lovely freedom to just take off around the world. I don't know many who do. But I realize that has nothing to do with Gilbert's journey, that's just me being whiny. So when I picked up The...

from Maris00

This book is the best read I've had in a long time. It's now my favorite modern book. Since I'm not a Catholic or even a Christian anymore, nothing offended me. Actually, it excited me and brought me closer to ideas about reality that any church teaching I ever suffered through. But it's more tha...

from KateNoyes

No point in detailing the plot. Every point in speaking of the effect this book had on me. Things that confused me, seem cleared up. The path I've been seeking seems straight before me. And a bonus, this book is beautifully written, amazingly imagined, and speaks from a mystics understand. I was,...

from MarcusMilton

Didn't bother rating all my other books since they're the best. But this one is an odd one for me. As a scientist, it was a curious read, yet compelling. Einstein said all breakthroughs in science come from a sudden insight, not laborious thought. This book is that insight for me. I'm now furious...