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A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years What I Learned While Editing My Life
Author: Donald Miller
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 a 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 un...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780785213062
ISBN-10: 0785213066
Publication Date: 5/5/2009
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD
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Donald Miller was down on his luck. The success he achieved by writing the elusive best seller did not bring the happiness he desired. Donald was avoiding life. He simply could not face the music. Eventually with the help of a few friends and a couple of movie producers Miller realizes that life or your "story" is what you make it. However, instead of facing the music, Miller embraces it.

This book was an amazing reading experience for me. Every once in awhile a book comes along that makes you re-examine yourself. This was the book for me. Miller puts his heart out on a limb throughout the book. Good stories don't always have happy endings but Miller reinforces the fact that its the journey not the destination that is most important.

This book is a must in any library. I highly reccommend this to everyone.

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This book is fantastic. This book follows up Blue Like Jazz in a sense, since any of the ideas in this book have to deal with what happened as a result of writing a movie counterpart. A MUST READ for fans of Don Miller or Christian Nonfiction.
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When Miller turns his first memoir into a movie, he learns some interesting things about what makes a good story. In this memoir, he takes those lessons and applies them to real life. Unfortunately the wonderful things he has to say about getting out there and living your story instead of sitting on the couch watching tv all day are sullied by his forays into excitement for the Christian after-life. A good example of such a wandering is the time he states that people who have bad lives will enjoy the after-life the most, so they're actually lucky. It's such a logical fallacy that I was left distrusting everything he had to say. It's too bad Miller is so caught up in the after-life. His life now would be even better if he wasn't.

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