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A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
Donald Miller
4.05 AVERAGE
359 reviews for:
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
Donald Miller
4.05 AVERAGE
I really loved this book although it got a little stale in some places. He has a truly unique outlook on life. I found it had me re-reading certain parts to really take in what he was saying-in a good way. I felt it had a powerful message about taking control of your own life and not waiting for things to happen to you. I'll be interested to read more of his work.
Such a good discussion on the importance of story on many levels. Although Miller is a "Christian Non-Fiction" writer, in media, I would suggest this book to people of ANY belief/religion or non-religion. SO GOOD. One of my favorite reads of the year.
I heard Donald Miller speak last weekend at the World Domination Summit. I could hear his actual voice and personality throughout reading this book. His presentation was moving and inspiring, and made me want to read this book to learn more about him. I'm a fan of his writing, but more so a fan of him as a person.
A life changing perspective on Life itself. It can have so much more meaning if we let it. "Nobody gets to watch the parade", so give them reason and chance to participate!
I really liked this book. I don't feel it's life altering as some reviewers do, but maybe it begins that i had low expectations. I read his famous book turned into a movie, "Blue Like Jazz" a few years ago and remembered not liking it. I looked and I only gave it 2 stars...However, I was on vacation w/o my kids and read 2 other books, so I picked this one up as a last resort. I enjoyed the short stories and was inspired by many of them. I realize that although I get tired of cleaning cleaning cleaning, the story I'm living right now is raising my children and it won't always be this way. I also had a realization that we can get in ruts. One part I re-read was when the author shared something he heard on the radio (starting on page 100 about abused women) "People fear change. Though their situations may be terrible, at least they know what to expect. The women in these situations are afraid to choose a better story because, though their current situation might be bad, at least it's a bad story they are familiar with. So they stay." Interesting. Although I chose to quote the negative story that stuck w/ me, there are many more positive stories :)
This may or may not be life changing. I'll let you know how it works out.
emotional
funny
reflective
fast-paced
This was an enjoyable and quick read. I appreciated how the author took on a nonchalant tone, yet the topics discussed were still very relatable. Despite the religious elements, I found it very engaging overall.
I love the way he writes. Always have. It had been several years since I'd read any of his books and I don't think I realized how much I'd missed him!
Blue Like Jazz made me want to move to Portland. It was fun to read in this one about Portland places that I not only know, but places I have been to multiple times.
It made me laugh out loud several times. It brought a couple of tears to my eyes. It made me want to live a better story.
Keep writing Don. I will keep reading.
Blue Like Jazz made me want to move to Portland. It was fun to read in this one about Portland places that I not only know, but places I have been to multiple times.
It made me laugh out loud several times. It brought a couple of tears to my eyes. It made me want to live a better story.
Keep writing Don. I will keep reading.
I don't know how I ended up reading this book other than all the (unwarranted) stars. I'd never heard of the author before.
I really liked the idea behind this book- living your life as if it's a story so that if anyone ever decided to make a movie of your life, it would at least be compelling enough to want to watch. But this book read as if he were sitting down to free write and then never looked back. It rambled a lot, mostly about things I didn't care about. (I don't know this guy and he never gave me ANY reason to care about him, which is funny because at some point in the book, one of the screenwriters told him that in the first 20 minutes of a movie, a character has to do something good, or the audience won't want things to work out for him.)
And the God shit.
Wow.
Chapter 15, Listen to your Writer, was unreadable to me. Ramblings of his ideas of God and the role he plays in your story and blah blah who gives a shit? I skimmed that chapter.
Chapter 20, the author starts talking about a friend of his, Kathy, who had a "hard relationship with God." She decided to go to Rwanda because church, I assume. And she went to a genocide museum and started to question God. But then she went to a genocide site that was in a church. And looking at all the bones and bloody clothes and horribleness, it was then and there that she decided that this is what happens when God's "compassion and love leave a place."
SERIOUSLY??
I couldn't even read after that and it's not even because I'm an atheist. In my Bible thumping days, that would have had me disgusted too.
Gross.
I really liked the idea behind this book- living your life as if it's a story so that if anyone ever decided to make a movie of your life, it would at least be compelling enough to want to watch. But this book read as if he were sitting down to free write and then never looked back. It rambled a lot, mostly about things I didn't care about. (I don't know this guy and he never gave me ANY reason to care about him, which is funny because at some point in the book, one of the screenwriters told him that in the first 20 minutes of a movie, a character has to do something good, or the audience won't want things to work out for him.)
And the God shit.
Wow.
Chapter 15, Listen to your Writer, was unreadable to me. Ramblings of his ideas of God and the role he plays in your story and blah blah who gives a shit? I skimmed that chapter.
Chapter 20, the author starts talking about a friend of his, Kathy, who had a "hard relationship with God." She decided to go to Rwanda because church, I assume. And she went to a genocide museum and started to question God. But then she went to a genocide site that was in a church. And looking at all the bones and bloody clothes and horribleness, it was then and there that she decided that this is what happens when God's "compassion and love leave a place."
SERIOUSLY??
I couldn't even read after that and it's not even because I'm an atheist. In my Bible thumping days, that would have had me disgusted too.
Gross.
What makes a good story?
What makes a good life?
Perhaps these questions are too simplistic and have no clear answer but what is interesting is just how connected they are.
Don Miller, an author of several books, leads a relatively ordinary life by modern-day standards, one without much risk or adventure. However, when he is contacted by up and coming filmmakers to help produce a romantic classic, he is forced to explore the idea of what makes an exciting, meaningful story which results in him also self-evaluating his life.
Don manages to explore these topics through a serious of small personal anecdotes. Throughout this book, the author changes and develops into a more “heroic character” taking risks, going on adventures and getting out of his comfort zone. It’s an easy read that will make you laugh and tear up while evaluating your life as a whole.
Be the hero of your own story.
What makes a good life?
Perhaps these questions are too simplistic and have no clear answer but what is interesting is just how connected they are.
Don Miller, an author of several books, leads a relatively ordinary life by modern-day standards, one without much risk or adventure. However, when he is contacted by up and coming filmmakers to help produce a romantic classic, he is forced to explore the idea of what makes an exciting, meaningful story which results in him also self-evaluating his life.
Don manages to explore these topics through a serious of small personal anecdotes. Throughout this book, the author changes and develops into a more “heroic character” taking risks, going on adventures and getting out of his comfort zone. It’s an easy read that will make you laugh and tear up while evaluating your life as a whole.
Be the hero of your own story.