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| Original Title: | A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life |
| ISBN: | 0785213066 (ISBN13: 9780785213062) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Full of beautiful, heart-wrenching, and hilarious stories, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years details one man's opportunity to edit his life as if he were a character in a movie.
Years after writing his best-selling memoir, Donald Miller went into a funk and spent months sleeping in and avoiding his publisher. One story had ended, and Don was unsure how to start another.
But he gets rescued by two movie producers who want to make a movie based on his memoir. When they start fictionalizing Don's life for film--changing a meandering memoir into a structured narrative--the real-life Don starts a journey to edit his actual life into a better story. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years details that journey and challenges readers to reconsider what they strive for in life. It shows how to get a second chance at life the first time around.
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| Title | : | A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life |
| Author | : | Donald Miller |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 255 pages |
| Published | : | September 29th 2009 by Thomas Nelson (first published April 15th 2009) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Christian. Religion. Faith. Christianity |
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This month, I read my first-ever Donald Miller book. Donald Miller is best known for Blue Like Jazz. His new release is A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. The book describes how Miller discovers what makes a good story while co-writing a script based on his popular book, Blue Like Jazz. Miller is transformed by the realization he could live a "better story." As he begins to make changes in his life, he encounters pain, joy, and a sense of purpose.Miller's writing style is conversational. He isWOW! If five stars and that exclamation didn't tell it, this was a great book. Donald Miller manages to tell us a lot about our story through his story, especially because he is so honest about his own flaws that have persisted or have even been magnified through his previous success. He is one. He is candid. He is able to maintain a tone that makes the reader believe he is "just talking", all the while choosing figurative language that is so perfect that he must have come through dozens of
I have a love/hate relationship with this book. At times, he had me frustrated with his writing about himself, and sometimes he hooked me with how he applied his stories to the point of the book. The 4 stars is an average: 5 stars for the point of the book (Life is a story, what kind of story are you living?). It really got me thinking and I have probably thought about this book everyday since I read it at some point or other. But, I gave it a 3 for the rambletastic ridiculousness of his stories
An average of a (low) 3 for general story structure & some lazy writing in the second half (sorry, yeepers) but a high 4 for the not-unique yet still poignant reminder that we are the authors of the stories into which we have been placed. Narrative included some clever humor and clean prose early on.Did I cry toward the end? Idk, probs. But my reaction was more likely a case of reading the right book at just the right time, rather than a testament to the emotional impact of the denouement.
It's really more like 3.5 stars. I enjoyed this book a fair amount, and found portions of it both or found and beautiful. The portions between those portions was a little flat for me - not bad, just kind of empty. Still, a worthwhile read.
It took me almost half the book to get into it but it had so many gems in it! It gave me a lot to think about. I love how he compares God to "the writer that isn't me".
I can't quite recall how I first heard about the books of Donald Miller--whether it was through a friend or a web site recommendation. However, I do know that I read his book, "Searching for God Knows What" before the book for which he is best-known, "Blue Like Jazz." And while I like "Jazz" a great deal, it's always been "Searching" that has stuck with me and been my favorite book that Miller has written.Until now."A Million Miles in a Thousand Years" may have replaced "Searching" as my
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