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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

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Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Book Type: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 120
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ISBN-13: 9780785213062 - ISBN-10: 0785213066
Publication Date: 5/5/2009
Pages: 288

Book Description:
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 unsure how to start another.

But he gets rescued by two movie producers who want to make a movie based on his memoir. When they start fictionalizing Don's life for film -- changing a meandering memoir into a structured narrative -- the real-life Don starts a journey to edit his actual life into a better story. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years details that journey and challenges readers to reconsider what they strive for in life. It shows how to get a second chance at life the first time around.

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Michael M. (mickmckeown) wrote on 9/29/2009...


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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