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Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back by Todd Burpo
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
3.25
Heaven Is for Real by Todd Burpo
I got this book from a friend, and it's been on my reading list since 2022, but I didn't get around to finish it. So I decided it's time to just started this very short book - a little over a 160 pages, or a little more than 4 hours if you listen to it.
Short synopsis: this book is about a little boy who was very sick and he had a near death experience, and then he lived to tell. While almost passing to the other side, he saw Jesus, he had conversations with Jesus and God and angels and his dead relatives, or his unborn sister, which his parents actually miscarriaged. If the whole story is true, it's a very interesting concept, however, I feel that it delves too much into the religious part of the whole experience and trying to get depict the fact that, in order to go to heaven, you have to believe in Jesus. It's also worth mentioning that the father of the this little boy is a christian pastor and his beliefs and his way of thinking might have influenced his son's mind to the point that he took a different approach on this experience. I don't know, and it's not very clear in a book, but this is my personal feeling. I also don't want to talk about religion and stir any controversy. I just wanna say that I don't know how I feel about that, but it's a concept that it provoked so much controversy throughout the history, and it's a concept that is still very disputable with many, many controversies about it.
Overall, of course being a nonfiction book, and being written by the father of this little kid, I can say this is not a literary masterpiece, but I have to give him credit for how well he wrote this book. I'm not talking about the structure, which is a little all over the place, and I'm not talking about the chronological illustration of the events, which I wasn't a big fan of either, but the way he actually uses English language to write the story. I have to say that this was way better written than most of the memoirs or autobiographies that I read so far. But I still don't know if I would recommend it. I mean, if you're into this kind of books, yes - I'm not. But, overall, if you want to see a different perspective to this whole subject of near-death experience, maybe you want to read it?
Happy reading, everyone! 😊
I got this book from a friend, and it's been on my reading list since 2022, but I didn't get around to finish it. So I decided it's time to just started this very short book - a little over a 160 pages, or a little more than 4 hours if you listen to it.
Short synopsis: this book is about a little boy who was very sick and he had a near death experience, and then he lived to tell. While almost passing to the other side, he saw Jesus, he had conversations with Jesus and God and angels and his dead relatives, or his unborn sister, which his parents actually miscarriaged. If the whole story is true, it's a very interesting concept, however, I feel that it delves too much into the religious part of the whole experience and trying to get depict the fact that, in order to go to heaven, you have to believe in Jesus. It's also worth mentioning that the father of the this little boy is a christian pastor and his beliefs and his way of thinking might have influenced his son's mind to the point that he took a different approach on this experience. I don't know, and it's not very clear in a book, but this is my personal feeling. I also don't want to talk about religion and stir any controversy. I just wanna say that I don't know how I feel about that, but it's a concept that it provoked so much controversy throughout the history, and it's a concept that is still very disputable with many, many controversies about it.
Overall, of course being a nonfiction book, and being written by the father of this little kid, I can say this is not a literary masterpiece, but I have to give him credit for how well he wrote this book. I'm not talking about the structure, which is a little all over the place, and I'm not talking about the chronological illustration of the events, which I wasn't a big fan of either, but the way he actually uses English language to write the story. I have to say that this was way better written than most of the memoirs or autobiographies that I read so far. But I still don't know if I would recommend it. I mean, if you're into this kind of books, yes - I'm not. But, overall, if you want to see a different perspective to this whole subject of near-death experience, maybe you want to read it?
Happy reading, everyone! 😊