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Title	:	The Fifth Sacred Thing (Maya Greenwood #1)
Author	:	Starhawk
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 486 pages
Published	:	June 1st 1994 by Bantam (first published 1993)
Categories	:	Fiction. Fantasy. Science Fiction. Spirituality. Dystopia. Feminism

The Fifth Sacred Thing (Maya Greenwood #1)

Starhawk

Paperback | Pages: 486 pages

Rating: 4.24 | 5696 Users | 507 Reviews

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11/2015 I live in the sweetness of this book, whether I am reading it or not. There are times when I need this book the way I need air. This has been one of those times. I slipped into it the way Madrone slipped into Sara's pool, unable to resist, entirely yielding myself to the narrative. It's prose that speaks to me on the deepest level, and oh, how glad I was to re-immerse myself.

11/2012 I find more to love each time I come back to this book, this time being no exception. I come to this book like water in the desert and it purifies and magnifies me.

2/2011 Unequivocally, I love this book. I live inside it and believe in it with all my heart. It feels like home, the society depicted herein, with its collective collaborative hippie soul. Sure, it's preachy and even didactic in parts. I find I don't mind preachy, so long as I'm sitting in the choir.

After reading the stark and scary natural histories I've been dipping into lately, this utopia of the possible- although it's a hard-won utopia indeed- feels comforting to me.

I believe that people can work together and create a society which honors the earth and the sacred things thereupon, that people can honor one another and find new ways to relate to their environments. I have to believe it, otherwise I'd give up. This is the book I turn to when I think about giving up.

3/2008 A re-read. I love this book unreservedly. I'm not particularly fond of the whole new age ideology. I'm not a believer in any of the recognizable religions, including Paganism. I worship at the altar of science. And yet I buy this book completely. I inhabit it like a second skin.

This book is the rhetoric of hope, of redemption, of bravery and of transformation. I don't know if it's particularly well-written, I've never noticed in the score of times I've read it. I don't care if it's not. I fall in and am consumed.

It helps that, religious overtones aside, I share the values espoused here. I'm a Utopian at heart, I suppose. Free love and tomatoes for everyone! Never thirst.

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Original Title:	The Fifth Sacred Thing
ISBN:	0553373803 (ISBN13: 9780553373806)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Maya Greenwood #1
Literary Awards:	Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror (1994)

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I loved this story of a near future utopia based on the principles of earth based spirituality and social justice. The combination of the well thought out details of how daily life would look in a post-capitalist society, combined with the rich description of the various locations across California where I grew up, made for an emotional read for me.

I loved this story of a near future utopia based on the principles of earth based spirituality and social justice. The combination of the well thought out details of how daily life would look in a post-capitalist society, combined with the rich description of the various locations across California where I grew up, made for an emotional read for me.

I am reading this book for the third time. I identify with the main character, even though I thought she was a brat the first time through....; ) Look--if you care about the Earth or your freedoms when it comes to clean water and pure food, then read this book. It's a quick read because you won't be able to put it down. The characters are likable, their relationships refreshing.It's the only fiction piece (as far as I know) by Starhawk. Research her work.

This is perhaps the most inspiring book I've ever read about the struggle to create a better society than the one that we have. It provides beautiful imaginings of how we might work for the healing of all, be courageous, build community where we are accountable to one another, expect things of one another, but are still compassionate and forgiving when people fail at living up to our own ideals (and thus we are encouraged to respond the same way to ourselves -- to learn from our mistakes, to

Problematic author but a very engrossing story.

For me, this book wasnt a 'page-turner' but I read it avidly none-the-less. What brought me back to the bookmarked page day after day was the profound ideas inter weaved throughout the book. This book heralds not only spirituality, environmentalism and mythological symbolism but also social change, civil disobedience and revolution. For this reason, this book was inherently different, and exactly my cuppa-tea. It was my scholarly and spiritual minds transformed into fiction.The characterisation

I enjoyed this book (but not the sleep it cost me when I stayed up too-late reading it) -- I've heard of Starhawk, and this makes me curious to read more of her stuff. It's good to get a dose of utopia set in SF, and the writing is compelling. Her characters are complex as are the ways she's envisioned society (and threats to it), and I appreciate the way she wrestles with questions of non-violence vs armed rebellion, though at times the plot asked me to make jumps that didn't actually flow.