blue like jazz
I don't think I have done a book review since middle school, and i am not claiming that this is one, a jejune attempt at best.
i have currently been reading a book by donald miller called "blue like jazz." ’ i cant tell you how many times i thought this guy had stolen my life story to paste into his own book. every other page was filled with amazement, as i felt i was the only one who had been through/thought about what he has. blatantlytly honest, mr. miller tells what people really think instead of what people really say. someone once said "‘the true test of a mans character is what he does when no one is watching," ’ well don miller wrote word for word what one thinks when no one is listening.
anyone have any other books they recommend?
i have currently been reading a book by donald miller called "blue like jazz." ’ i cant tell you how many times i thought this guy had stolen my life story to paste into his own book. every other page was filled with amazement, as i felt i was the only one who had been through/thought about what he has. blatantlytly honest, mr. miller tells what people really think instead of what people really say. someone once said "‘the true test of a mans character is what he does when no one is watching," ’ well don miller wrote word for word what one thinks when no one is listening.
anyone have any other books they recommend?
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I'll just stick with what I'm reading right now.
The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky is quite possibly one of the most brilliant books I've ever read. Once you get over the initial shock of the fact it's nearly 1000 pages long, and immerse yourself into the backstory that begins the tale, you're hooked. It portrays the story of three brothers (duh, title) and how each is in some fashion or another involved in the circumstances surrounding the murder of their father, Fyodor Karamazov. The three brothers coincidentally, while each have their own personalities in emotions, represent the three main aspects of man: emotion/passion, intellect/logic, and faith/spirituality. The protagonist is Aleksei Fyodorovich Karamazov, who is almost like an observer to everything, and for a short time is a monk. Ivan Fyodorovich, his older brother, is the logical side, and an atheist because he cannot reconcile the idea of God and suffering (especially children). Dmitri Fyodorovich is their older half-brother, representing passion as he is driven solely by sensuality and his love for a loose woman nicknamed Grushenka. Smerdyakov is also involved, but to what extent would ruin half the book.
Their father is murdered, and Dmitri is immediately made prime suspect, as Fyodor also was a suitor to Grushenka, and unlike Dmitri had the money to back up his promises. All the while runs a subplot centered around the Christian faith that adds a depth to the story that absolutely astounds me. A murder mystery and psychological novel all in one, it's worth all the time it takes to read.
oops...that was long. Long book, long rant, I suppose.
C.S. Lewis - Mere Christianity
C.S. Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia
Frank McCourt - Angela's Ashes
Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
by Jim Wallis.
It opened my eyes actually, I think you'd like it too.
moni, va
Leigh
Joscelyne
a story from the point of view of a fifteen-year-old autistic boy. just a great read.
Also Good, Good Reads!:
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and When Bad Christians Happen to Good People and Bring 'Em Back Alive: A Healing Plan for Those Wounded but the Church by Dave Burchett equally as insightful as BLJ
-Hannah S.
anything by oscar wilde...a fabulous writer
Then again, I have yet to turn 18, and there are a plethora of books to be read in my lifetime :)
The front of the book says this
"A Forensic Anthorpologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo"