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"I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. . . . I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened." In Donald Miller's early years, he was vaguely familiar with a distant God. But when he came to know Jesus Christ, he pursued the Christian life with great zeal. Within a few years he had a successful ministry that ultimately left him feeling empty, burned out, and, once again, far away from God. In this intimate, soul-searching account, Miller describes his remarkable journey back to a culturally relevant, infinitely loving God.
Item Specifications...
ISBN 0785263705 EAN 9780785263708 UPC 020049024874
Pages 256
Dimensions: Length: 8.6" Width: 5.54" Height: 0.66" Weight: 0.6 lbs.
Binding Trade Paper
Release Date Jul 17, 2003
PublisherTHOMAS NELSON ACT#541160193
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As a baby Christian, I was fascinated with this book - that someone so far in his walk with Christ could be so very candid & down to earth - not flying high like a special angel, but as a human being. A person who almost any down to earth person could relate to. It's such an easy read; it's funny, heartwarming, & familiar. If you're looking for something to help you get closer to our Maker, you shouldn't leave this book off your list....If you just appreciate wonderful writing skills & like to laugh, read it....maybe you'll get closer to God whether you plan on it or not!
Blue Like Jazz is a darling book Mar 29, 2007
Don Miller possesses the amazing talent of carrying on like a nut and then saying something so profound that you wished you had paid more attention to what brought forth all that profundity.
Don writes about himself and the world he inhabits, which is filled with wonderful people who are very easy to love because they all say deeply profound things. I have a friend like that. His name is Rene and he is a writer too. But I have only one friend like that; Don has many. And they live in the woods with him, they go to Reed College with him, they talk to him on the phone for hours and they share his Christianity which, like a miracle, seems to exist all by itself and feed off the air. There is as good as no talk about the Bible in Don's book, but no page swishes by upon which Don doesn't treat us with his insights on Bible-based (we hopefully assume) Christianity. And that's why it's a bit difficult to believe Don all the time. As a matter of fact, Don is probably a lot more serious and contemplative than he lets on.
Blue like Jazz is a journey across planet Don, where the government is comfortably corrupt, the US is all that exists and people lovingly smoke dope, lovingly cuss and lovingly radiate a warmth that reminds of sitting on a bar stool that someone just got off of. On Planet Don nobody dies of cancer; nobody gets stabbed; nobody gets raped. Don's world is teaming with effortless adolescents that crowd a readily available army of wise men and one lesbian in churches and other arenas. I wish my world was like that. I wish I could talk to Rene more (but he's in the Netherlands and I'm afloat on the Pacific with a bunch of promiscuous drunks). I wish I had wise men and lesbians galore to listen to. But I don't. Instead I have 240 pages of Planet Don, which I devoured in frenzy because it reminded me that there are enclaves of people that cherish the profundity of every day's most quiet need and are perpetually amazed by both the world around them and their own response to it.
Blue like Jazz is an important book, especially for the younger crowd that ask the questions that Don tangos with. And for old farts like me it's important too, if only just to be endeared by Don's strange velvet world and his strange velvet mind. Nothing scholarly but all campfire quality storytelling and baffling honesty, Blue Like Jazz is a darling book. I wish the world was such that it could only bring forth books like Don's.
If every book were an academic masterpiece, most people would not read.
Life, Love, and the Meaning of it All Mar 27, 2007
Donald Miller reminds me of one of my favorite writers, David Frisbie, who writes about relationships and brokenness. Miller has a similar voice, so open to the world and yet clinging fiercely to hope. I don't know if Don Miller has written a book about marriage and relationships yet, but I hope he does, and soon! Meanwhile, reading "Blue Like Jazz" reminded me of the little essay that opens Happily Remarried: *Making Decisions Together *Blending Families Successfully* Building a Love That Will Last one of my favorite books.
an unusual Christian book Mar 25, 2007
This was recommended to me by a friend from church. I normally do not read Christian books written any later than 1963 (when C S Lewis died) but this made me think. I was reminded of the fervor of my early days as a Christian, and although I don't agree with everything the author says, I think this is a wonderful book. Highly recommended.
Amazzzzing Mar 23, 2007
Donald Miller is real. He tells you the truth even when it might make him look bad. Its so easy to relate to this book. It is a must read for anyone who has ever struggled..... to be a better person, with decisions, with relationships, with life. So basically, everyone should read it.
