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Summary: Truly, an enchanting read.
Review: "Enchanted Love" is simply a beautiful book. Particularly in the introduction and through the early chapters, it truly is an enchanting journey along a path of romance into a woman's essence. While some of the enchantment seems to be abandoned in the later chapters, where she turns more philosophical, the poetic dialogues that illustrate the book have the ability to carry the reader back into the greater depths of love where enchantment lives, and bring bearing to her more surface, technical beliefs and observations.In particular, I was surprised by her views on monogamy. They seem almost to be an intrusion on the feelings carried earlier in the book; but as she says, she is a complex woman who makes no apologies for being, "high maintenance". She does, indeed, appear to be a woman leading the way into a new era of open expressiveness and freedom, although I'm not convinced through reading this book that her ideas are as independent as they are rebellious, which is where the intrusion is made on the enchantment. Still, from a man's perspective, reading this book has the familiar comfort of laying in a lover's arms for a beautifully intimate moment. Williamson's words often assume the texture of a golden honey being poured into the reader's soul, and bear a sense of authenticity and subject-knowledge reminiscent of her work in "A Woman's Worth" This book is highly recommended reading for anyone who has ever felt in love.
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Summary: What was the point of this book?
Review: "Enchanted Love" lacks clarity. She was so entangled in her flowery expression of words that she must have forgotten the point she was trying to make. This book is confusing more than it is enlightening. In the book she talked about the difference between men and women. How men usually don't lie, unless women proves we're hysterical in the light of truth. Hello! Since when are we responsible for how others behave? If that is the case, women definitely need to do the "right" thing to get men to behave the "right" way. It sounds like manipulation, but she calls it a dance. The two stars are for the prayers in the book. It's about the only part that is worth reading. I wouldn't recommend anyone to waste their time on this book. If anyone wants to read about love, I'd recommend Deepak Chopra's "The Path To Love", or Iyanla Vanzant's "In The Meantime".
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Summary: interesting, philosophical
Review: ---CASE FOR---
she's a smart lady with a lot of good knowledge. I really like her illustration about holding mans dream, that story alone was worth getting the book. She talked about true love that gives, and she says we only get to keep what we give away. I really like her comments on a relationship, that we become united in spirit. She simply throws out few thoughts on a subject of love and relationships. Not a guide to marriage or relationship. Would I recommend this book to a friend? Yes, only because I haven't read other books on relationship, so I don't know what else is out there. But it is an enjoyable reading. ---CASE AGAINST---
She had some things to say and a lot of it seems like she was saying just to fill up her book. I skipped pages where she was simply expressing her thoughts, filling up the book. its a good book, but if you're having problems with your marriage, and need some direct advise to solve your problem, this book only straches the surface and doesn't go it to deapth of relationships.
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Summary: interesting, philosophical
Review: ---CASE FOR---
she's a smart lady with a lot of good knowledge. I really like her illustration about holding mans dream, that story alone was worth getting the book. She talked about true love that gives, and she says we only get to keep what we give away. I really like her comments on a relationship, that we become united in spirit. She simply throws out few thoughts on a subject of love and relationships. Not a guide to marriage or relationship. Would I recommend this book to a friend? Yes, only because I haven't read other books on relationship, so I don't know what else is out there. But it is an enjoyable reading. ---CASE AGAINST---
She had some things to say and a lot of it seems like she was saying just to fill up her book. I skipped pages where she was simply expressing her thoughts, filling up the book. its a good book, but if you're having problems with your marriage, and need some direct advise to solve your problem, this book only straches the surface and doesn't go it to deapth of relationships.
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Summary: Wow, I must be unenlightened
Review: ...because this book, to me, embodies absolute, sexist tripe. The imagery is beautiful - angels, perfumed seas and so on - as are the prayers which are the only things worth reading in the book. The instructions are vague, and the message is lost somewhere in all of that rambling. Not only is this book sexist, it is cruelly insensitive to those not in relationship ("no one gets into heaven alone"), and also ignores those who might have alternative lifestyles. She should have just published the prayers.
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Summary: Maybe you need to be a female......
Review: Although there are some clear sighted ideas here, most of the approach is from a woman's point of view...and a romantic woman at that. I found the book had no true mystical foundation but rather a sentimental one. I'm sure it will appeal to day dreamers and those who watch soap operas and read poorly written romance novels. In general I found the book lacks substance, backbone, balls and vitality.
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Summary: Lots of Fluff, Little Substance
Review: Enchanted Love is a book full of cotton-candy like ideas about intimate relationships.....they are sweet, a little gooey, but in the end not substantive. If you're looking for constructive and useful advice about relationships, look elsewhere.
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Summary: Don't Waste Your Money
Review: For someone who is often referred to as a "new-age" sensation, Marianne Williamson disappoints truly enlightened readers with her stale prose and highly traditional views on male-female relationships. This book puts a seemingly new-age spin on old-fashioned beliefs, namely that men need some enticement to remain interested in their "woman" and in maintaining a monogamous relationship. Although I enjoyed some of Marianne's early books, this one is a big disappointment!
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Summary: A Return to Love far Surpasses this Latest Effort
Review: I am beginning to wonder if this author and Donald Neale Walsch have something in common. They don't know when to stop and leave a prior miracle a miracle. I am very disappointed with this book by Marianne. It is like she didn't write anything new that hasn't already been written by her and written much more clearly in her first A Return to Love. This seems much more like her capitalizing on her reputation and duping those of us who truly thought she might have something NEW to say. A money making venture for her and a major disappointment for me. It appears to me it would have been much more honest of her to re-release A Return to Love than to dupe us with bits and pieces of already published work.
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Summary: disillusioned by enchanted love
Review: I am not one for self help books, I really don't buy in to the dysfunctional ways of our society. I have read every Marianne Williamson book on the market (more than once.) I like what she has to say. I am not a literary scholar..just a woman making it in this world. My spiritual journey has been long, profound, and quite beautiful..I have some questions for her though, I would love to pick her brain. Enchanted love was my favorite of all her work and an awakening to spiritual growth and letting go of all that I was raised with. Most of us believing we have to be strong,get a college degree, and only depend on ourselves. Most of us have a low opinion of men, marriage and have lost the key to what those relationships should mean in our lives. We so desperately want to be married and live the "dream" but that dream has three parts one of our mothers, one of our grandmothers, and one of our own ..we were disillusioned. What I wonder and question is when we have done the work,come full circle, discovered our true selves, and find the key..the key being..loving yourself more, believing in the Word of the Lord, and ultimately surrendering to the Word, and surrendering to that child like state that we all want to inherintly surrender to...I ask only this: Marianne what are we to do when we believe in the power of your words, of His word, surrender, and are ultimately left in pain, that pain we were so afraid of to begin with? I have prayed the prayers and believed in the Word..this has left me in more pain than I have ever known or imagined. To love like this is a very big risk, it is so unconditional, so beautiful, and when this happens it is very few that can reciprocate-even from those of God.. I wish I could talk to her about this book..it has affected my life in a very powerful way. It wasn't the book alone, however,it was all of the actions and the journey prior to reading this book that led me to such a beautiful place of seeing those around me. I see miracles happen every day..I feel the Lord stronger than I have ever felt..but to love like that is very painful. Sometimes I wonder if what our mothers taught us would not be better. "you don't need a man!" I don't want to believe that, but after taking those steps she outlined in her book and being left where I am now..I can not help but wonder who is emotionally better off?
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