Through Painted Deserts, Donald Miller
Through Painted Deserts, Donald Miller
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Through Painted Deserts
Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road

Author: Donald Miller

Narrator: Donald Miller

Abridged: 4 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Harper Horizon

Published: 06/30/2009


Synopsis

From the author of Blue Like Jazz comes a road-trip memoir about three months spent crossing the country in a Volkswagen camping van, wondering out-loud if there is more to life than nine-to-five jobs, than the ruts the entire world seems to be stuck in. Follow Don and Paul as they dive headlong into the deepest of human questions and find answers outside words?answers that have to be experienced to be believed.Day 1: "Trips  like ours are greener grass left unknown for fear of believing trite sayings; sayings that are sometimes true. But our friends back home live an existence under the weight and awareness of times; a place we are slowly escaping; a world growing fainter by the hour and the mile."Day 13: "It feels again that we are leaving who we were, moving on into the people we will become, hopefully, people with some kind of answers, some kind of thing to believe tht makes sense of beauty, of romance. Something that would explain the red glow against Paul's face, the red glow that seems to be coming off the console . . . 'Did you notice the engine light is lit, bud?' I ask . . ."Day 83: "I sit in the van, waiting for her to come out when I notice a window in one of the classrooms open, and a backpack comes falling out, spilling a few books onto the lawn. After the backpack comes Elida, falling atop the pack and laying low, peeking back into the window to see if the teacher noticed. She gathers her books, reaches into the classroom and closes the window, then runs toward the van as though this were a prison break."As you read Through Painted Deserts, you'll soon realize this is not just one man's account of finding light, God, and beauty on the open road. Rather, this book maps the journey you're already traveling . . . or soon will be.

About Donald Miller

Donald Miller is the CEO of StoryBrand and Business Made Simple. He is the host of the Coach Builder YouTube Channel and is the author of several books including bestsellers Building a StoryBrand, Marketing Made Simple, and How to Grow Your Small Business. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife, Elizabeth and their daughter, Emmeline.  


Reviews

Goodreads review by Israel on February 17, 2021

There is perhaps too much to say about this book, and at the same time too little that could be said any better than Don Miller has already penned. To the people on the brink of life’s next chapter, or to the people who drown in the internalized existential musings of their overactive questions, or......more

Goodreads review by Danm on June 28, 2016

About life. Great story. Real. Only complaint is unrealistic dialogue (humans talk in contractions). However, the adventures and messages in the book more than make up for that one continuous error. Debated about putting on Favorites shelf, but if I have to debate about it, then it's probably not a......more

Goodreads review by Mike on May 03, 2024

As a new Christian I’m currently on the prowl for Christian prose, so when I discovered Miller’s memoir at my local used bookstore and briefly skimmed the description, which piqued my interests given my full-time RV lifestyle, I grabbed it up. Within the first few pages I concluded that I was readin......more

Goodreads review by Joel on August 09, 2021

Here's the thing. I revisited this in audiobook form while driving a worrisome older car north. As I went, Don's wondering certainly reminded me of a younger self: experiencing the generosity of strangers, quantifying the mysteries of life, love, belief and doubt. It's certainly youthful and a bit i......more