- Hardcover: 352 pages
- ISBN-10: 0679454608
- ASIN: B000067JZL
- Product Dimensions: 36.8 x 22.6 x 15.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
I read a lot. This is one of my favorite books of all time.,
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This review is from: The Rooms of Heaven: A Story of Love, Death, Grief, and the Afterlife (Hardcover)
Mary Allen is a master. I am Jim Beaman, to great extent. I am addicted to most anything I like, and I KNOW how the PULL of the demons feels. Mary captures that...she knows it, as she was addicted to the addictive personality. She loved him. It shows. As does her aching, crying grief. And every point of human emotion along the wide scale. Her love of Iowa...and the University, and writing...all come to life, in this tale of death, despair...and return, recovery. Jim Beaman loved you, Mary. I do too.
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True Love,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Rooms of Heaven: A Story of Love, Death, Grief, and the Afterlife (Hardcover)
Mary Allen could have easily been preachy in this book. "You do drugs?!? Look at what happens!" But instead she concentrated on the love story aspect of it. Although a main part of the book/plot does involve drug/alcohol abuse, it's shown as being integrated with their lives, not as seperate entities. It does lead you to hate drug abuse, but not by Mary Allen telling you to, but by the way you can see the role it played in tearing apart two people who loved eachother. Love was the main theme here, drug abuse and alcoholism were peripheral beings. I liked this book so much, I thought this love story was amazing and would leave anyone longing for their own significant other.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not All I Thought It Would Be - Disappointing,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Rooms of Heaven: A Story of Love, Death, Grief, and the Afterlife (Hardcover)
As a survivor of three suicides, I was eager to read a book with some substance. The beginning of the book was written very well. Mary is an excellent writer, however, she really missed out on the expression of her gut retching pain emotions that result after a suicide. She sort of skipped over those feelings and lived in this denial world. I have grown extremely in my spiritual realm as the result of the suicides that have touched my life. And I can tell you, the aching, can't get out of bed emotions were definitely not expressed in this book. Perhaps they are still too painful for Mary to write about, thus the jumping from one time period to the next. The gift of spiritual knowlege gained from a suicide was not presented in this book. I was quite disappointed.
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