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5.0 out of 5 stars I read a lot. This is one of my favorite books of all time., 26 Jul 1999

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars No New Age Nonsense Here!, 21 Jul 1999

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This review is from: The Rooms of Heaven: A Story of Love, Death, Grief, and the Afterlife (Hardcover)

Mary Allen has written an important book about drug addiction, its effect on the life of not just the addict, and how "co-dependency" makes it all that much "easier" for the addict and those are closest to the addict, continue on their destructive paths. Then Ms. Allen describes to us her own brief visit into the realm of mental illness and her obsessive search for what ever remains of her ill-starred love, Jim Beaman, as a spirit or "shade". To have revealed as much as Ms. Allen has about her own problems took a great deal of courage, I think. If the reader is looking for a lot of "New Age" nonsense about the afterlife and her experiences in attempting to contact the spirit of Jim Beaman, you won't find it here! If Ms. Allen is anything at all, it's thoughtful and level-headed. She is not prone to flights of New Age fancy . But she does show us just how ephemeral the human spirit can be. I can't recommend this book too highly. It may not "satisfy" the "sensationalist seeking" reader fixated on learning all the "nuts and bolts" of Ms. Allen's attempts at after-death communication with the shade of her deceased lover, and just how successful she was. But this book was never intended to be that kind of book. It was written in a "literary style", it raises importatant questions of human spirituality, and is as "down-to-earth" as Ms. Allens' adopted Iowa.

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5.0 out of 5 stars True Love, 5 Jun 1999

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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.