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A young man struggles to reconcile God, faith, and sex as he stumbles toward finding his life in this frank and beautifully written memoir.
Since childhood, David Schickler has been torn between his intense desire to become a Catholic priest and his equally fervent desire for the company of women. Growing up in a family of staunch Catholics in upstate New York, Schickler s..more
Published September 12th 2013 by Riverhead Books
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Jun 25, 2013
Michael rated it
it was amazing Shelves: 2013, memoir, favourites, religion, non-fiction
If I was Catholic, I would want to be a Jesuit; they seem to be the most pretentious of all the Catholic congregations. Not that I would want to be a priest as I’m married but for David Schickler the desire to be a priest was a driving force in his life. The Dark Path is a memoir of Schickler’s struggle between a call to priesthood and his attraction to women. A memoir that explores his faith, sex and the internal conflict, The Dark Path is a funny and boldly honest look at his struggle.
I grew u..more
Every good Catholic boy thinks about the priesthood at some point. Normally before he meets girls. So a book selling itself (on the advance edition anyway) as an epic internal struggle between these two paths sounds really interesting. The Dark Path is not that book.
David Schickler talks about his spiritual struggles as he moves through university and his early career. He gets as far as the eve of formally applying to the Jesuit novitiate, but at no point did it really seem likely he would go do..more
Oct 08, 2013Angela rated it really liked it
Good book. It was a timely read for me. I really do not like to give stars, but I will. I would like to give this 4.5, but I cannot.
Thanks David Schickler.
Nov 11, 2013
Literary Vixens rated it
it was amazingRecommends it for: fans of memoirs and engaging feel-good stories
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Reviewed by: Melissa
“When I swallow the wafer, I wait for God to bloom to life in my stomach, to give me muscles or wisdom. God doesn’t seem to do this, but I’m hoping that one day He will.”
David Schickler’s memoir, The Dark Path, candidly outlines his very personal inner struggle between his love of God and his lust for women with comical, poignant and sometimes uncomfortably bracing honesty. With sharp wit, keen insight and poetic detachment, Schickler retells his most revealing life experienc..more
David Schickler, author and co-creator of the ever-so-dark Banshee series, writes a very readable memoir describing his efforts to determine his path (priesthood vs. teacher/author). He retells stories from his youth and blend them well providing a picture of how his experience mold him into his college years. His college years were pretty epic.. I'm kinda jealous - but again, Schickler very deftly shows how his actions/decisions molded what comes next. He continues in this vein throughout the..more
Aug 02, 2013Shannon rated it it was amazing
Raised in a strictly Catholic family in upstate New York, author David Schickler long dreamed of being a priest. But as he grew older, he realized that his love and desire for women might prove to be a challenge to his goal. Schickler recalls this personal battle in his hilarious, heartfelt memoir The Dark Path.
Schickler had me from the first page of The Dark Path, as a ten year-old sitting in a pew, staring at his 'wife', tagged as such because she also has a four syllable last name ending in -..more
While I have no doubt after reading this memoir that Schickler felt (and suffered) mightily about his struggle between the priesthood and women (and really, that is the limited choice that he mentions throughout the book), I felt that his writing about it was overwrought, immature, and mind-numbingly dull. (Hey, look, Ma! I'm writing!)Personally, I was put off both by his treatment of women in real life and in the summation of his novels as recorded in this book, and his seeming lack of the perc..more
The Dark Path
a Memoir by David Schickler
First of all, this has been on of the best books I've read in a
very long time. I grabbed it from the New Book section of the
library. I did judge this book by it's cover. I was not
disappointed and stayed up nights reading page after page.
Starting from David Schickler's childhood, he was raised
in a devoted Catholic family. He was comforted by a
darkened space in the trees behind his home. He felt
the Spirit of God. It influenced his life.
David always wanted..more
Aug 29, 2013John Wood rated it really liked it
In reading the book you soon find that 'The Dark Path', although ominous sounding, is not at all what you may imagine. This book reads like fiction and I had to keep reminding myself that it isn't. I can definitely empathise with the Catholic, anxiety and depression issues. It is a quick, fun read and the author makes normal everyday happenings seem interesting, making the reader want to discover what comes next. It did get a bit old that he imagined every girl as his wife. His basic struggle, a..more
Over and over again, Schickler describes his youthful disdain for the 'bubbly-safe' version of religion practiced by the adults around him--'all chipper and scrubbed too clean.' He professes to prefer the dark path--a God who's unknowable and fearsome. What's so weird is that this entire memoir is bubbly-safe. In its language and its thoughts, it's juvenile, it's cutesy. It presents a series of un-funny, unsophisticated prayers ('Seriously, are You off talking to dying kids in distant lands, and..more
I was impressed with author David Schickler's ability to write about such an intensely personal subject, managing to be both forthright and insightful at once. It deals with his struggle to hear God's voice and so know his true life path, and culminates in an identity crisis when he finally recognizes that he will never become a priest as he had long-thought since childhood. The inner self-talk running throughout the course of the narrative captures his conflicted state remarkably well. I found..more
This book was pretty dark, an aspect in books I usually try to avoid. However, the Catholic themes kept drawing me in. (religion nerds unite!) I was excited to read about the discernment process for the main character between marriage and the priesthood. While these themes were present, I soon felt I was simply reading a memoir of clinical depression instead.
You will be laughing from the first page. You will want to be one of the girl's that David imagines could be his wife. You will not be sorry you picked up this book.
A great memoir that takes us on the journey of an internal battle between desires to be a priest and to love women- is it one or the other?
Read it in a day, and rated it 5 stars. And texted two friends excerpts while I was reading. That should be enough to figure out what I thought about it.
Aug 17, 2019Jennifer Hallock rated it it was amazing
In so many ways, this author's life mirrored mine in superficial ways:
• We went to the same program of the same university and lived in the same freshman dorm (three years apart).
• We both taught (and I still teach) at boarding schools in New England.
• We both had similar back/hip/leg problems.
• We both write sexy stories.
These overlaps could have made me a tougher critic—I would know if something seemed off—but I devoured this memoir. It was raw, clever, and funny. I have not read anything else..more
Jul 25, 2019Clint rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Hard-to-put-down memoir of a writer who felt as a young man he was being called to be a Catholic priest. His love of women and his doubts get in the way, though, and those and some physical ailments offer him a dark time as he attempts to come to grips with it all. Unlike with many memoirs, the writing feels real and not forced. I felt his pain as he struggled with many life dilemmas and wondered how, or if, he’d come out the other side.
Mar 31, 2019Katie rated it really liked it
I read David Schickler's Kissing in Manhattan a long time ago, and I remember there being a priest, who was a sympathetic character, in the book. I didn't realize until fairly recently, though, that Schickler had written this memoir about his struggles with faith and vocation and how he once contemplated becoming a Jesuit. I like his writing style a lot, and it's a rarity among religion-centered memoirs in that it genuinely is more about his journey than his endpoint.
I dislike many memoirs. This is not most memoirs. It is sui géneris and it is a goddamned masterpiece. It may not mean quite as much to those of us who haven't struggled with Catholicism or with faith in general, but honestly anyone who's ever been mystified and stymied by love, life and family will find something here.
Unlikable in almost every way.
Shick, a young, sincere Catholic boy especially concerned with hearing God, is likable from the start. He describes communion as waiting “…for God to bloom to life in my stomach, to give me muscles or wisdom. God doesn’t seem to do this, but I’m hoping that one day He will.” Vulnerable and innocent, the boy finds comfort in the titular dark path near his home where he gazes into trusted, wooded shadows that he feels “were put on earth so that I wouldn‘t miss out on something special.” As he grow..more
The downside of this memoir is that Schickler leans too heavily upon summary. I wish he would have let us dwell in the discomfort and pain of his scenes, made it so that we couldn't help but sympathize and suffer with him. Sadly, he summarizes too much and the scenes we do get often feel glossed over--which is a shame because the writing is pretty good and there are numerous lines where Schickler digs knives into the hearts of his scenes. It made me want to grab him by the shoulders and shake hi..more
Aug 29, 2013
Desiree Griffin rated it
it was amazing Shelves: books-i-own, first-reads-giveaway
I have to admit that I was a bit skeptical about reading this book. I have no real interest when it comes to religion. But I took a swing at it and was instantly hooked. This book was hilarious and addicting. It was hard not to put it down because I wanted so badly to find out what was going to happen next. This book was definitely not a disappointment. I loved the story-line and how it felt like I was connecting with the author and the situations he was dealing with. I could really see the situ..more
I really have a hard time understanding why other reviewers have taken issue with the perceived 'straightforwardness' of this memoir, one of the best I've read in a few years.
It is not excessively emotional, Shickler's is not nearly as 'self absorbed' as 99 percent of writers who take the dip into 'me me/excessive emotionalism' of memoir writing, and has a gorgeous simplicity to it that I admire.
Shickler was born in my area, or near my area, of course--a nice section of Upstate NY, if a bit smal..more
Aug 12, 2013Jeffrey Tretin rated it it was amazing
The Dark Path opens the readers eyes to how a conflict that percolates through adolescence and early adulthood can have devastating consequences for the individual. The author came from a stable loving family that would seem to have given him the ingredients for a successful transition from child to adult. Yet, the dichotomy between his desire to be a priest and his desire to have a loving relationship with a with a wife and children strained his ability to maintain his mental stability. The int..more
For the first 10 pages or so, this memoir was of a 10 year old boy, and it was written in a kind of Junie B. Jones way, precocious. Then the sex began. This turned into the memoir of a foul mouthed horndog who hears voices in his head compelling him to be a priest and, when that doesn't turn out (sex again), those voices become quite disturbed. Schickler has some very funny lines and a number of good stories, but spends a lot of ink writing what is in his head, and that is a bit repetitive. Some..more
I am always interested and intrigued by people's journey to (or from) religious faith and spirituality. As I struggle with my own personal understanding of God, faith, etc I hope that others that write eloquently and honestly about their path will help me understand mine. David Schickler has done exactly what I hope to get from a memoir such as this. Did it help me? Yes, in that David always thought that God could only speak privately and personally directly to him and not through someone else!..more
Started out slow, but then I was glad I gave it a decent chance because the middle part moved along at a more reasonable pace, but then, as many writers do, Schickler lost it with the ending. Not bad, but not great. It's also hard to categorize this book, since it isn't exactly a rumination on faith, so I'm not sure it would appeal to that audience, but it's also not the story of a 'Catholic boy gone bad' either. I think a good solid rewrite of this book after some heavy discussion with friends..more
It really helped me understand the offspring of a believer, their possible struggle with their own faith, and what is shoved down their throat in regards to religion. I wonder if this is what my first born is going through as he sifts through what he was raised with or what he hasn't made his own yet. I liked how the author's parents still stood their ground, but loved their son regardless of his behavior. There is redemption in almost anything.......I think this book has taught me this t..more
This is like Silver-linings play book, except the dude is creepy and full of himself.
I was so intrigued to read a memoir by someone who contemplated the priesthood, something I can never relate to. But all references to this vocation remained superficial, and instead I got a detailed account of all the girls in his life (amazingly, each one is a knock-out 'hottie') who he hooked up with or wanted to hook up with.
So .. He's pretty much an average Joe who happens to be obsessive. Why did this wa..more
To have sex or become a priest—this is the dilemma at the heart of David Schickler’s memoir. As a child, he spoke to God in dark places—in shadowed corners of church, in his basement bedroom at night, but mostly on a wooded path, which he visits daily in hopes that God will speak back and give his life direction. His “priesthood ache” is stymied when he goes to college and falls for a passionate, agnostic woman. This memoir is a cup of meditative punch spiked with the boozy thrill of wild and gr..more
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David Schickler (born July 30, 1969 in Rochester, New York) is an American author and screenwriter. He is the co-creator and an executive producer of the new Cinemax television series Banshee, premiering in 2013.
David Schickler is a graduate of the Columbia M.F.A. program. He lives in New York. His stories have appeared in 'The New Yorker,' 'Tin House' and 'Zoetrope.' 'From the Hardcover edition.'..more