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|  | Author: Donald Miller
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
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Rating:  295 reviews
Sales Rank: 554
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 288
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0785213066
Dewey Decimal Number: 277.3083092
EAN: 9780785213062
ASIN: 0785213066
Publication Date: September 29, 2009
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 Million Miles: decent but not great February 12, 2010
Bryan Dormaier (Portland, OR USA)
I received a copy of Donald Miller's new book A Million Miles in a Thousand Years a while back, and was excited to read and review it. I've been a big fan of Donald Miller since reading Blue Like Jazz and Through Painted Deserts, and so I had quite a bit of anticipation about his new book.
As I started to read it though, I got about halfway through the book and started to comment that I was unenthused about it. Miller's beautiful memoire style is in full display and his voice continues to be great, but I found myself being pretty disappointed in his approach to story. In as broad a stroke as I can paint, Miller uses lessons that he learns about story while trying to turn Blue Like Jazz into a movie as a means of looking at life. What follows is a combination of exploration into the art of story through the lens of movies and personal anecdotes from Miller about how he's seen the facets play out in his life. I found myself in the end thinking that he had covered for a lot of complaints that I'd had earlier, I just felt that looking at our lives as stories through the lens of movies was the wrong approach. For instance, books rarely transfer well to movies (as Don illustrates through his story). So my problem was that we end up using the bastardized version of story for movies as providing insights into how to live life.
In the end I found myself looking at it more positively than I had about halfway through, and I can see it being a great read for someone who needs an extra thought into how they might live their life more meaningfully, but it just wasn't that impacting for me.
 What a story. February 12, 2010
M. Everson
This is one of those books that makes you want to dive headlong into life. As the author says, nobody wells up at the end of a story in which a person finally saves up enough money to buy a Volvo. In scripting his own memoir, Don learns about the components that make a great story and strives to incorporate them into his own life. It's a brilliant idea, really - find out what makes a good story and then become it. Absolutely loved it.
LIVE a Great Story! February 12, 2010
Jeffrey Voeltner (Atlanta, GA United States)
Potentially life-changing! Donald's story will help you not only find what goes into crafting a great story, but how to LIVE a great story. As Robert McKee says... "Story is metaphor for life"; and you will find out why when you read how Donald woke up and inserted himself into living a story. An outstanding book and I absolutely recommend it!
Good, but not great February 12, 2010
Coffee Snob (cincinnati, ohio)
I like Miller's writing style. It is very comfortable and easy to read, like chatting with a friend. I really liked "Blue Like Jazz", but this book never really seemed to get anywhere. I did like the part about God being the author of your book, and you should let the author do the writing.
Perhaps, I expected too much of this one. I have to admit that I get quite annoyed when an author, actor, or singer gives advice on how to live life to the fullest. Not everyone has a job where they could take a month off work to ride a bike across the country, or go hiking in Peru. I am pretty sure I would have a more adventurous life if I didnt have to drag my butt to work 40+ hours a week.
All in all, it was a good light read, but given the 5-star reviews, I had higher expectations.
One read is not enough February 11, 2010
Samuel Schoutko (Mansfield, OH)
This review is long overdue...as is my second read through of this book. I finished it back in October and have ever since been recalling bits and pieces that relate to various things in my life. I know for a fact that I need to reread it, I have just been busy with school. The minute I finished it I wanted to read it again to memorize more of what it had to say and catch anything I missed. Don Miller is an amazing author and one of the best story tellers I have ever encountered. His insights creep up on you as you read and hit you sometimes minutes, hours, or days after you have read them. Some of the points he makes are so subtly woven into stories that you don't even catch it at all the first time through, I know I missed a lot. He also writes in such an inspiring style; he makes you want to go out and live your life and make your life into an incredible story. He turns the mundane in life into something exciting and worth doing. He also makes you want to go past that mundane and do more than the boring status quo. I know this review is full of cliche's but its all a good description of this book. I am hesitant to say it is his best work yet, as Blue Like Jazz and Searching For God Knows What are two incredible books, but it even including it in the same discussion as those titles should tell you about its quality. Overall, everyone should read this book at least twice to even begin to explore the depths that are present.
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