I'd say that when I read this book in high school, I would have given it 5 stars; and now, after 3 years of listening to the capitalistic, moderate, reformed Donald Miller's podcast (primarily a tool for selling his own marketing products and setting up his political platform), and knowing that at the time he wrote this he owned a whole publishing house that he was trying to turn into a multimillion dollar company (and the book was probably a marketing tool for that, too), I'd probably give it a 1 star for disingenuity and pretentiousness. So, I'll give it 3 stars to balance it out. Maybe I should re-read it to give it a more fair score. ( )

Loved this book. It was an easy read, but made me think.

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This book was initially recommended to me in High School. I read it then, considered it a good read that provoked several thoughts & thought I agreed with some of it while disagreeing with other parts. Overall, I could see why a lot of people liked it, but never felt my life should be based on it. It was simply a good read, but not worthy of being placed on my "Re-read Annually" list.

I read it a second time as I began college. I just finished re-reading it now as I am in the middle of Grad school. This time was...

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It took me awhile to get the flow at the beginning of the book. It's very different than other books, in that, I'm struck trying to find the point of the book. It just seemed like thoughts pieced together to form a book. Each chapter could have easily been a blog post.

With that being said, the "Christian" ideas brought up in this book challenged me greatly (in a good way). It was a very open and honest look at a man's life coming to truly know God. If this did one thing for me it was to show what it's like to be honest with God. Quite the idea, if you ask me.

Other than that, I think this was a fantastic book, once I got the flow. Wish more people would read it. ( )