Unabridged Audiobook
After listening to the preview I almost un-bought the audiobook. The accent Wilder used for the friend at the top was grating. Given I had to get the book read for a project I bought it and found the body to be in a completely different voice. Unlike the candid and transparent content, the voice-over sounded shallow and sometimes smug - the very opposite of the message. Still... I GOT IT and found it very good material adequately presented.
Donald Miller at his best: frank, honest, insightful and illuminating. The only down side was the lack of pauses between chapters so you could stop it easily and quickly.
Brilliant! Such a timely, gracious, and honest book.
I really liked the book itself. It was an interesting cross between Miller's autobiographical narrative style that I'm used to and like from him, and a useful self-help marriage/pre-marriage counseling book. The narration, however, was annoying and distracting. The narration was rushed, and the editing left no pauses whatsoever between chapters and sections. It left me no time to realize a transition was occurring or to think about and absorb the authors culminating statement. Donald, I wish you had read this one yourself too!
This was an incredible and engaging book that was also very vulnerable as the author shared his own personal experiences about relationships. I learned quite a bit and left feeling refreshed at the end of the book.
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