The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess Book

Huh.

This was intriguing, and covered a lot of the basic underpinnings of generic modern pagan thought, such as the mortal god/immortal goddess stuff, the maiden/mother/crone stuff, and other stuff. I enjoyed all this stuff pretty well. Mythology is fun, even if it's something new pretending to be something old.

But the last half of the book is actually a spell book, with candles and little knives and visualizing the four winds and who knows what else. This part I just couldn't read. It was just so bloody silly. After reading this book several years ago, I realized that, despite my best efforts, I was never going to be a pagan. I'm a born atheist, and I'm finally okay with that now.