Joey O'Connor
Autor de You're Grounded for Life!: And 49 Other Crazy Things Parents Say
Obras de Joey O'Connor
Heaven's Not a Crying Place: Teaching Your Child About Funerals, Death, and the Life Beyond (1997) 41 copias
I Love You Unconditionally...on One Condition: Everyday Choices for an Extraordinary Marriage (2=1 Books) (2004) 24 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- male
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 18
- Miembros
- 350
- Popularidad
- #68,329
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 24
- Idiomas
- 2
As it was, this book was very much taking the characters and giving them the modern equivalency of what the characters in In His Steps had, while, at the same time, stripping all the hard morality away.
This book tosses out the backpedaling of one character, the death of another, and the disowning of another for washed-out versions of these plots. None of the characters in this book walk away from their promise, the only death is a character introduced in the middle of the book and not mentioned until the chapter where he dies, and the disowned character simply finds somewhere else to lived without any of the emotion of the original.
As far as Christian books go, this wasn't badly written. Unfortunately, it didn't capture the spirit of the original and settled for a simple plot rehash in the modern day where all the moral quandaries of a spiritually dead life can be solved by the fixing up of a local shelter and throwing money at your problems if you're rich.
Additionally, the girl who's a singer gives up her career in this one to keep singing at the local church. No mention is made of her trying to do anything else with her talents and she's apparently happy to stick with the answer "give up a career" as the answer to the question, "what would Jesus do." I don't really get it.… (más)