Thumbs Down For A Million Miles
Sep 29th, 2009
Thumbs down for A Million Miles In A Thousand Years!
I’m writing a negative review for my latest Thomas Nelson book review project. While I appreciated the point of the book, which was that we should make an effort to live a more meaningful life by making choices that challenge us, the author calls it ‘living a better story’, I have to ask a few questions.
- Why would a Christian author choose to include sensual imagery of his teen years (pg 4, 7)?
- Why would a Christian author say he was listening to ‘spirits’ whisper what he should write (pg 81) and those spirits suggested that he write about his character trying to have sex with his girlfriend? This wasn’t the HOLY Spirit he was listening to!
- Why would a Christian author choose to illustrate the point of his book with a cartoon telling the story of a father using his daughter’s vocal talents to make a better life, and this better life included ditching his old wife and getting a skinny, young, new wife (pg 126 – 134)?
- Why would a Christian author write that his desire to live a better story made him want “some make-out sessions and perhaps a little trouble with the law” (pg 98)?
Although the meat of the book was insightful, and it inspired me to live a better story by ‘pointing to the horizon’ and overcoming some obstacles to get there, I just can’t neglect mentioning the fact that some of the content in this book is inappropriate, and it should have been edited out. If the writer wasn’t mature enough to know better, then the editor of Thomas Nelson, a Christian publishing company, should have taken care of it.
Keeping it real,
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I enjoy reviewing books as a member of Thomas Nelson’s Book Review Blogger program.
This is my personal review of A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life, written by Donald Miller and published by Thomas Nelson.
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