around the blogs

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here’s some glimpses into what’s being said about Don around the internets…

+ Whoever it is that blogs under the title Living With Joy just finished Blue Like Jazz and thought “…there were some good pieces…and a lot of mediocre pieces.” They also said:

However, in the end, I still hold to my first impression that the book is more about Donald Miller than it is about God.

+  Bryan Weins (great name! i love to see Bryan spelled correctly) left a comment at Living With Joy linking to his February 2005 review of the book in which he states:

It seems to me that what the author, Donald Miller, has to say can be summed up in a few ideas. In sharing your faith and living your life, be in community, be yourself and don’t be judgemental (be accepting). I learned all that stuff from Papa Smurf way back in the day. And how could you argue it? The guy doesn’t use a single Bible reference in the whole book. Two hundred forty-two pages and no attempt to back up any of his blog-worthy ramblings.

+  On a more positive note, Joe Misek just finished Blue Like Jazz and had this to say:

I loved it because it is so unconventional compared to other Christian books. Donald Miller comes across as such an authentic, flawed, regular Christian guy, and that’s why I was looking inward so much. He walks the reader through how he learns as a Christian and as a person, with incredible insight and humor… Miller’s book caused me to hunt for hypocrisy within myself.

+  On his blog Jellyvision, Andy Jellison writes about finishing To Own a Dragon, saying

What an eye opening book! It was all about men and how they somehow feel less of a man or no man at all when they don’t have their fathers affirmation. It is amazing to me at how deep this issue is in my life. Going in, I thought that I would just read it because I love Miller and maybe it will give me some pointers for when I have kids (none on the way, so don’t ask!). Boy oh boy was I wrong.

+ Travis Mamone shares his Best and Worst of 2007 Reading List and Don’s Through Painted Deserts makes one of the lists. He also plans on reading Searching For God Knows What next year.