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Title: Really disappointed...
Review: I'm normally quite a fan of Donald Miller, but I found Through Painted Deserts, as another reader put it, too self-conscious. While he has some occasional pithy comments (I've been haunted by the "how" vs. "why" question since I finished the book), he sacrifices the actual narrative for his own ramblings. As a caveat, though, I've read the original Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (which this book was an editing of), and found it to be much more spiritually honest and narratively raw. There's more Jesus in it, I thought, which is unfortunately the point that Through Painted Deserts kind of misses.
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