This is a heartfelt, thoughtful, and really funny monologue about the author's search for truth. Highly recommended. I just wish it were longer.

I highly recommend this presentation. It'll make you cry and it will make you laugh. Very touching.

extremely intelligent and witty and true. An unfolding of a free mind. Very very worth the time and money.

This book came as part of my search for "Christian" books.
Although Julia is probably a well renowned comedian I do not feel that it is not appropriate to have a book which is categorised in your library as "Christian" when indeed there is so much bad language and insulting messages about Jesus.

Julia is a crack up. Seeing the world thru her eyes, I can see why she does not believe in God. Faith requires convincing evidence. (Hebrews 11:1) I hope she keeps on looking. The truth is out there Julia.

I like learning many views on this subject.

This was entertaining and easy to listen to. It it made me laugh and question. I was intrigued by her catholic upbringing and wonder how much of the catholic teachings led her to Let Go. I hope she continues on her spiritual quest and finds we don not have to believe in a judgmental god, but to look within ourselves first. I would recommend this audio book to anyone exercising their spiritual muscle and attempting to awaken to the spiritual magnificence within us all.

I'd wish my usage of the term "theatricalization" to be taken, not in a negative way, at all, but, rather, in a "neutral" one. Actually, I began considering the word "novelization", but, as the reading is delivered on the stage, and as it works so well in that setting, I consider it to be a better way of describing it.
That notwithstanding, the concept is also useful for expressing my impression that Sweeney did a lot of "adapting" to her, let's say, "spiritual" experiences, in order to drive her message home more effectively. Regarding this, the well-timed aparition of both couples of mormons looks rather suspicious.
But I hardly think this is something to make much of, as it's a well known fact that most writing is "subjective" (i.e., a fiction), in some measure, and rhetoric ought to be expected. In any case, I'd have preferred that Sweeney had avoided over-dramatizing her lecture: it gets too pathetic on occasions, and too teary from time to time -in a noticeable forced way-.
Also, perhaps, I'd have liked the author to comment more about the "imprint" phenomenon, that is, the lasting effects of religion being instilled in young minds. Sweeney refers to it in passing: "once a Catholic, alwasys a Catholic".
Apart from that, I think this is a work worth listening to: it explores the experiential aspect of the free-thinker mind, which is a matter rarely considered on more "technical" atheist books.

Buy this. She's hilarious!

This is a funny book on a serious matter. You can see why so many are still in the closet. It's good to see some humor on the subject.