Reviews for My Maggie

The average rating for My Maggie based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-06-08 00:00:00 Crebassa Michel Sniff. Sniff. You know what I like about this book, which chronicles a the true story of teen love the matures and endures through numerous tests? It's honest. Rich King does not portray his wife as a saint. He does not portray their relationship as without flaws or challenges. Maggie, Rich King's wife, suffered from Usher's syndrome which caused hearing loss from an early age and later retinitus pigmentosa, which is a progressive, degenerative blindness. Talk about a double-whammy! In addtion, Maggie survived cancer once and years later, cancer came again, but to stay and ultimately take her life. So it's touching and sad, but also uplifting and invigorating because it really shows how tough, resilient and hopeful one has to be to have an enduring marriage, with or without such tremendous challenges. Rich and Maggie are "real." They are not ideal, pie-in-the-sky romantics, but they are romantic and full of love for each other. They are committed. They are good people who recognized that they had a great marriage, with bad days and good days and everything in between. And Rich's narrative was refreshing because it was like he was sitting down for coffee with me, or a beer,and just talking to me and telling me like it was. It was very readable. It's hard for me to give this book 4-5 stars. Maybe because I am a literary snob and when I think 4-5 stars, I am think of literary greats. It gets 4 stars from me for being real and honest. 3 stars on literary merit, which is still quite good. Folks who are facing challenges in life would benefit from reading this book.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-12-10 00:00:00 Charles D. Spar This was a touching, if not well-written, story about Rich and Maggie King. Rich writes a biography about his late wife, who suffered from Usher syndrome- a progressive disease causing blindness and deafness. She also gets breast and, fatally, ovarian cancer. Overall the story is uplifing, a story of perseverance and courage.