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Title: Virgin Time by Patricia Hampl ISBN: 0-345-38424-5 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Ambivalent recommendation
Comment: Virgin Time is a book that half way in I was nearly ready to toss - the walking trip thru Umbria seemed to have little relationship to her childhood memories of a Catholic upbringing and education. Only at her return to Assisi with a Franciscan study group did the structure of the book begin to appear. Only in the last chapters of the book did the need for the first half of the book become apparent.
As for the internal spiritual journey, Patricia Hampl has a perspective that is useful and uncommon - the problem is not God but is prayer. Her resolution comes on retreat in Northern California - a resolution that has several insightful observations on prayer.
There are individuals for whom Virgin Time should be "required reading" - others will find that it is an interesting one-time read from which they will learn little other than how personal a spiritual path must be - different questions as primary - different aspects of the answer missing.
The best way to learn if this book is for you is to read it.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not worth it.
Comment: Read for a college Theology class. Uninteresting. She has a spiritual journey. It's just not worth reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: A remarkable book about contemplative prayer and pray-ers.
Comment: If you're interested in contemplative prayer, this author knows the subject well. Her years with contemplative nuns as a child, her own intense search, and the contemplatives she runs across in her travels are described with impressive perception and depth. A remarkable book, rich in specific insights and details that will be of particular interest and meaning to contemplatives.
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Title: A Romantic Education by Patricia Hampl ISBN: 0393319059 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory by Patricia Hampl ISBN: 0393320316 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative by Vivian Gornick ISBN: 0374528586 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Pub. Date: 11 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Modern American Memoirs by Annie Dillard ISBN: 0060927631 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 09 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris ISBN: 1573225843 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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