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A Million Miles in a Thousand YearsDonald Miller 
Years after writing a best-selling memoir, Donald Miller went into a funk and spent months sleeping in and avoiding his publisher. One story had ended, and Don was unsure how to start another. But he gets rescued by two movie producers who want to make a movie based on his memoir. When they start fictionalizing Don's life for film--changing a meandering memoir into a structured narrative--the real-life Don starts a journey to edit his actual life into a better story. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years details that journey and challenges readers to reconsider what they strive for in life. It shows how to get a second chance at life the first time around.
I love Donald Miller. He is a man after my own heart. —Anne Lamott, New York Times best-selling author of Traveling Mercies, Grace (Eventually), and Bird by Bird. If someone tells you they've read this book and they "enjoyed it" or they "liked it" or they think it's a "good hook" then maybe they didn't read it - it's well written and funny and interesting and all that, but it's also disturbing. Really, really disturbing. Don is into provocative territory here, wrestling with The Story and the role each our stories play in it . . . this is very convicting, powerful, unsettling writing. I felt like this book read me more than I read it. —Rob Bell, author of Velvet Elvis I've never been in Donald Miller's living room, but this book makes me feel that I have. The stories compel, the humor works, and Don's wisdom stealths its way on to the pages. I already want to re-read it. —Max Lucado, New York Times best-selling author of 3:16 and Fearless. Sly, soulful, and deeply affecting, Donald Miller's A Million Miles in a Thousand Years is an indispensable road map and travel companion for readers seeking not only to experience better stories but to live them as well. —Allan Heinberg, Executive Producer, Grey's Anatomy Only Donald Miller can mill the glorious wreckage of the human experience for the hue of jazz and the hope that we can live out a story worth sharing. His premise will haunt you until you set out to discover if memorable lives, like unforgettable books, often require several drafts and a loving editor. —Steve Duin, The Oregonian In the first few chapters of Don’s new book, Don got me thinking about Don and his interesting life. Then for several chapters, he got me thinking about my own life. And then for the rest of the book, I couldn’t help but think about God and other people and the kind of future we’re creating together. That sounds like solid evidence that this uniquely talented and sagely writer/thinker/storyteller has given us another wonderful and life-enriching reading experience. —Brian McLaren, Author, Speaker, Activist, brianmclaren.net There are some writers who simply don’t have it in them to craft an inelegant sentence. Donald Miller is one of them. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years proves in story form how stories define us even more than our genes do. Read this book for an experience of sheer beauty, or for help in living a well-storied life. —Leonard Sweet, Drew Theological School, George Fox University, With great honesty and insight, Don Miller issues a simple and profound challenge: live a better story. In A Million Miles in a Thousand Years Don opens up his life, struggles, triumphs, and insecurities and shows the reader how to do exactly that. The world is full of great challenges, terrible tragedies, and overwhelming joys—there is simply too much going on to be a part of a boring story. For anyone who knows that life should more than what we see on TV commercials and billboards, this is a book for you. —Jim Wallis, President of Sojourners and Author of the New York Times bestseller The Great Awakening Page Count: 288 Customer ReviewsWrite your own review of this item.Average Rating:  5 out of 5 (based on 1 review) You're the Inspiration - 9/29/2009It’s been a long time since I’ve been inspired. We use the word “inspired” way too often and most of the time we are referring to things that aren’t inspiring at all. According to Merriam-Webster, inspire means “to influence, move, or guide by divine or supernatural inspiration.” Donald Miller’s new book, Million Miles in a Thousand Years, has inspired me. This book influenced me; it caused me to move. I believe it will cause you to move as well. As always, Don tells a story, his story. However, this time, the story is about story. I know that sounds confusing but stick with me and we’ll try to clear it up. The basic outline for the book is Don working with new friends Steve and Ben to come up with a storyline for Blue Like Jazz the movie. Seeing as how Don’s books are based in his own story, he ends up editing his own life, writing about a fictional Don Miller. Along the way, he learns more about the concept of story. He has to find out what makes a good story and then allow the fictional Don Miller to walk through them. Then he starts to wonder about the story the real Don Miller is walking through. I laughed all through the first half of the book because Ben is a real person and he’s a friend of mine. As I read each line, I could hear him saying those things. As an added bonus, Steve was in one of my all-time favorite bands. So I was definitely invested in this book from the beginning. Add to that Don Miller, who is an author I really enjoy. I doubt that I’m in his Tmobile Top 5, but I think he would recognize me if I walked up to him on the street. If I had a nametag on. I love Don because he sees the comedy and the value in his own life, in his story. And he relates it in a way that I connect to it. Don looked at what it takes to have a great story, what it might look like to live that way, met people that did live like that, and re-examined how he was living his own life. Along the way, he inspired me to do the same. Todd Agnew 8 out of 20 visitors found this review helpful. Did you find this review helpful?  |  Other titles by Donald Miller
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