I don't know what enticed me to choose this particular book to read, what I do know is that it is not a book that you read once and then set aside to collect dust. "Pilgrimage for Ecstasy" is a story about finding yourself, through adventure, through love, through change, and through pain. This is the first book I have ever read that has been able to collectively combine, humor, sadness, adventure and love into one story, that reads incredibly smoothly. I am 21, my Dad is near sixty, he started to read my copy and burst out into laughter, followed by him requesting a copy of his own. Point being, there is so much variety in the story that everyone can relate and enjoy it.