Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller

I've been reading this book, along with a few others, for a while now, and I hope to finish a few of them soon so I can move on to more interesting reading material. I must confess that I skipped much of the last few chapters of this book because it was beginning to drive me crazy. I understand and agree with a lot of what Donald Miller says, and a few things I read will probably change the way I see my relationship with God, but the self-help nature of this book wore on my nerves, as those types of books always do. There's very little in these kinds of books that I don't already know, and sitting around reading about stuff that I know but don't practice is never beneficial for me. The conversational style of the narrative also bugged me a bit. I like prose that is straightforward but not conversational. Anyway, I'm planning on reading Blue Like Jazz soon since that's the book Donald Miller is most known and most praised for, so we'll see if it has the same effect. We'll also see what I think of him when I hear him speak at the The Festival of Faith and Writing later this month.

Edit after seeing him speak at the Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College: My husband and I both saw Donald Miller this past weekend, and we really enjoyed hearing him speak. He spoke about a lot of the same topics he wrote about in Searching for God Knows What, and the ideas were a lot more appealing to me coming from a real person instead of a written page. We have both started Blue Like Jazz, and we're both really enjoying it. So I'm glad I went to see Donald Miller speak, and I hope to maybe revisit this book sometime to actually read the last few chapters instead of skimming.