Gooberz [Paperback]

Linda Goodman (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 1081 pages
• Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing Company (March 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571740600
• ISBN-13: 978-1571740601
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #951,975 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #54 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Religious & Inspirational > Visionary Fiction

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An exquisite writer and visionary., October 21, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Gooberz (Paperback)

Linda and I share the same publisher. I had the priviledge of reading Gooberz before most of the country even knew of it. She is an exquisite writer and visionary who literally lived in the mountains and contemplated the deep things of life. Gooberz's tale of love found and lost was drawn from the depths of her own suffering. It was not written with ink but with tears and blood. Though she was famous as a recluse, we shared a common love of poetry, Zen and other spiritual gifts, so she opened her heart to me. Her writing has a beauty and a melody which belies its depth, but I knew she suffered in secret. We often talked on the phone and I visited her in her hideaway. To her many fans I say, if you understood Linda and Gooberz, you know she has not gone away. You're just on the other side of the dream. She wrote the introduction to my book, "The Secret of Freedom," and we had a grand time sharing our visions. Her works are still treasures for anyone. Gooberz is a tour de force...and as I write, a part of Linda Goodman writes through me. I am grateful that she had the dedication to produce such a colossal work but still found time to let me into her intimate circle. Read her. Give her books as gifts. Your friends will thank you.

Vernon Kitabu Turner

Author/The Secret of Freedom and Soul Sword:The Way and Mind of a Warrior

38 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Linda the real, May 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Gooberz (Paperback)

Linda was a true teacher. Her books, every last one of them, are spiritual primers of the highest order and for those, who want to take their seeking to a higher level, her books will give you the required , preparatory grounding and introduction. And from there, you take it to whatever level you want to go to. I cannot recommend them highly enough to anyone. The mysteries of "Gooberz" got to me in the deepest, most profoundest sense, and I desperately needed answers to some of the myriad of questions it raised and was able to locate her former next-door neighbor, Ruth Cook in Cripple Creek, mentioned in that book. Linda passed on in October 1995 from adult onset diabetes and the mystery of Sally as mentioned in "Love Signs" and "Star Signs" was never fully solved. A body was discovered but Linda never accepted the results. Her twin married that cool-sure-Scorpio mentioned in Gooberz. As for her literary legacy, it's in the hands of a company now, which produced "Relationship Signs". Though that book is quite good in understanding the synastry of charts between two persons, reading it, one is immediately struck by the fact that it's not Linda writing. This is further exacerbated by some glaring astrological mistakes, and quite frankly, I don't think Linda would have been so sloppy. Some of the sentences are definitely her's, while the rest of it is patched up together and for the less-discerning reader to come off as Linda speaking. The real Linda Goodman magic, with her innate ability to click with the reader simply isn't there. Which brings into question the authenticity of future Linda Goodman books, my own feeling is try as that company might, those books won't fly. Linda's not here but her spirit lives on and I think she would want us to take her work and push it and take it to a higher level, whatever that level may be. I don't think she meant us to be spoon-fed and perhaps the lesson of her death despite "Physical Immortality" as per "Star Signs" was for us to keep learning on our own. If there is anyone out there with more info. on Linda and her life, please do contact me. GET ALL HER BOOKS, THEY ARE WORTH IT!

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Touched with magic..., December 4, 2005

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Sarah Luciani (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gooberz (Paperback)

It has been awhile since I have lost myself in the treasures of this book.I know my review may sound strange to some, but if you are a Linda Goodman fan you may understand. Linda Goodman both shaped and changed my life. Having gone through a very traumatic time in High School living with a drug addict and alcoholic, with very little love and attention I found a true comfort in the writings of Linda Goodman. I bought this magical book when I was 18, lost and scared, and her sorrow and pain her poetic magic, honestly made me feel that I was not alone. There are not words to describe this book. This is where I may sound a little odd, but it isn't like a book really but a journey. I am not kidding about this, I sware to you that the book will transform itself to your life. I know this doesn't make sense and I wish I could fully articulate what I mean, but it truelly does. I remember one thing that truelly stood out, was I was reading a passage, about how life is a Carousel and we go round and round. I was reflecting on it, that seemed to have meaning to me. And I remember my high school boyfriend, absolutely having nothing to do with that book, not even knowing I was reading it said to me out of nowhere, "You know life is a carousel, we just keep going round and round." Now this isn't something people tend to state everyday. It is not a typical statement at all. This is only one of many, many magical things that happened when I was in the book. It is now many years later, and the book is on my shelf, forever a part of me, a treasure that saved me at a time when I thought nothing could. I grew up, got married, went to college, got a respectable job, but the magic of Linda Goodman forever lives in my heart.