I am reading this book, again, because it is just a really good book all around. The author, Donald Miller, knows how to make readers laugh while at the same time get a good message across. I would have to say that he is one of my favorite contemporary authors. For example here his a passage he wrote concerning money:
“Writers don’t make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don’t work either. We sit around in our underwear until noon then go downstairs and make coffee, fry some eggs, read the paper, read part of a book, smell the book, wonder if perhaps we ourselves should work on our book, smell the book again, throw the book across the room because we are quite jealous that any other person wrote a book, feel terribly guilty about throwing the schmuck’s book across the room because we secretly wonder if God in heaven noticed our evil jealousy, or worse, our laziness. We then lie across the couch facedown and mumble to God to forgive us because we are secretly afraid He is going to dry up all our words because we envied another man’ stupid words. And for this, as I said before, we are paid a dollar. We are worth so much more.”
Like I said, he is one interesting guy. But the book is so crazy and yet very knowledgeable. So I would highly recommend this book, especially since this is my second time reading it.
