The Magic Circle

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Summary: Time well spent
Review: Three books in about 10 years. I read the "Eight" in 2 days and have now finished "The Magic Circle". I enjoyed the depth of detail and the logic to both stories. I appreciate that writers styles and techniques are unique to each individual. I can't imagine how long it takes her to research her books and to write them.

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Summary: I LOVE HER
Review: I have read "El Ocho" (in spanish), now. I am learning universal mythology and cosmogony. I have liked her book very much . I'd like to know her. I have read "El Circulo Magico". She says that it is the novel ('novela', in spanish) del agua; 'El Ocho' ('The Eight', I suposse), was the air. Katherine Neville is my best. I love her.

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Summary: Escape into History
Review: Love her stuff! (MORE!) It's fun and stimulating ("Escape into History" ?) Looking forward to her next book.

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Summary: A Writer's Writer
Review: As a writer and freelance journalist, I recently read a review of "The Eight," and was prompted to go buy the book. I was completely blown away. To read the book and see the connections she made just completely astounded me. Her philosophies and theories set me to thinking, and I am developing some of those thoughts into one of my own new novels. Since reading "The Eight," I've also gone out and purchased her other books, and I have now finished "The Magic Circle." Neville's writings have affected me more than any other writer I've had the pleasure to read (and I've been reading voraciously since I was two). I've always enjoyed the literary masters for their use of the English language, and the way that they use words to mold the story, but she has also touched on a form that causes the reader to *think,* and to explore their own minds. If feel as if I have found a modern day Plato or Galileo in her writing. This is one fellow writer and reader who I will buy everything she writes.

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Summary: Highly enjoyable and very, very important
Review: I am on page 426 of The Magic Circle and enjoying it immensely. To answer major questions regarding G77: solar, wind, geothermal, water, natural gas; those other sources of power which are already in the environment. In addition to the dangers of nuclear power, there is the democratic problem of forcing people to purchase a form of energy they do not want to use, which has happened repeatedly in the USA. I would much rather there be solar panels on the roof of my building. Neville addresses these issues and many others of grave importance. She has clearly spent hours searching out the bits and pieces to create many enjoyable hours of reading!

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Summary: Books we just can't stop reading
Review: I read "The Eight" some years ago for the first time. As of the publication of "The Magic Circle" I was on my 12th reading of her book. Sometimes I feel it difficult to move from Neville's books to another by other authors because I feel a significant drop in quality. I have gone through at least six paperback copies of "The Eight". Some have been read into tatters and the others I have gladly given away to friends with the requirement that they read her fantastic story. My husband was also intrigued with her book as he is an avid and well versed chess player. He, himself, has read "The Eight" about four or five times. I just finished "The Magic Circle" in paperback and I am about to start my second reading. I am so grateful that she has put her stories down for the rest of the world to share.

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Summary: Looking forward to her future works with great anticipation
Review: I have read many books written by many authors throughout my life. Some old. Some new. The topics introduced in this book echo some of the subjects I have read before. It was by chance alone that I discovered this title.

Some say the heart is the seat of the soul. That it contains within it's chambers both the doorway to light and to darkness. I have always believed the voice of reason and knowledge proclaimed from the pulpits of religion, politics, science, and philosophy have been doled out piecemeal to humanity at best and while "The Magic Circle" is classified as fiction, in a literary sense, it struck a chord of symmetry deep within me. I will look forward to her future works with great anticipation.

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Summary: A Book that Transcends Fiction
Review: Thanks to the author for all of her knowledge, experience, effort, wisdom, strength, and grace. I just finished reading her book, "The Magic Circle." Actually, this is the first book authored by her I have read. I am grateful I had the chance to start with it.

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Summary: Interconnections Galore
Review: Kudos to Neville for creating such wonderful works as the Eight. I was a bookstore manager for years and loved to sell that book. I am a major numbers fiend and love the repetition and reoccurence of them throughout cultures, history and nature. I have spent years researching the background of the number 5 and loved the ways in which it pops up within the Magic Circle -- a true grasp of the interconnectedness of it all. She must have one of the most fascinating minds an author can have, able to tie such things together. I cannot wait for the next one now, having read the Magic Circle...

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Summary: The new Vos Savant?
Review: Wow, I am so in awe of Katherine Neville's talent, her accomplishments, her books, wow. Her name should be synonymous with IQ instead of Marilyn Savant. She must get a lot of praise like this--but I just couldn't resist paying homage to her because of the joy she's given me reading her stories. I look forward to the next.