Father Fiction: Chapters for a Fatherless Generation
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- ISBN13: 9781439169162
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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CHAPTERS FOR A FATHERLESS GENERATIONWith honest humor and raw self-revelation, bestselling leader Donald Miller tells the tale of growing up lacking a father and openly talks about the issues that befall the fatherless generation. Raw and candid, Miller moves from self-pity and brokenness to hope and might, highlighting a path for millions who are floundering in an age lacking positive male role models.
Language to both men and women who grew up lacking a father—whether that father was physically absent or just emotionally aloof—this tale of longing and essential hope will be a source of might. Single moms and persons whose spouses grew up in fatherless homes will find new understanding of persons they like as they travel along this literary journey.
This is a tale of hope and promise. And if you let it, Donald Miller’s journey will be an informal guide to pulling the rotted beams out from our foundations and replacing them with something upon which we can erect our lives.
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Written for men, this book is a rambly collection of memories about how Don Miller was hurt by not having a father in his childhood, and also about how he learned about healing from various men in his adult life. Many of the tales are touching, but it can be hard to grasp what point Miller is trying to make. His pseudo-spirituality is also a bit weird. Some of the best lessons he mentions are persons he learned from chess: have a strategy for your life (set some goals), be uncomplaining, examine your decisions to imagine how they will impact your life in the future, learn to reflect before you react, and control your emotions.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Donald Miller grew up lacking a father, and it affected his life in powerful ways. In FATHER FICTION, he tells the tale of how not having a father caused him to not feel like a man, and what he did to overcome it. WARNING: This book was previously published as TO OWN A DRAGON. Parts of it were updated, but this is not an original book, so you may have read it.
Miller writes the book to men who may have grown up lacking a father, but anyone can read it because it offers powerful lessons on who and what a man should be and the roll God plays in making and fathering men. I grew up in fantastic, stable family tree, but the chapters on work ethic, integrity, sex, how to treat woman, sprituality and others were very helpful to me as a man.
While Miller touches on the tragedy of children growing up lacking fathers, most of the book is spent covering what it means to be a man and how you can find your own “manhood” through God if you didn’t have a excellent worldly role model.
I recommend this book to all men. Miller’s casual writing style is fun and simple to read. My only complaint would be the four or five instances of terrible language. Not because you can’t be a Christian and say persons words, but because they weren’t necessary to the tale.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
This book hit me in some very tender places. Aimed at persons who grew up lacking fathers, I recognizable some of my journey and some of my daughters’ journeys in this book. Miller, who grew up lacking a father has a real commitment to helping to undo the hurt done by a generations devestated by divorce, absence and abandonment. His writing is brilliant, his analysis spot on and his tie to the broken places many of us have canhelp provide healing. I highly recommend this book
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I originally thought this book wouldn’t be significant to me as my father wasn’t absent in my childhood. I was incorrect to assume that! Having read the book, I now have a better understanding of the importance of a father figure in everyone’s life and the unique way in which God the Father is offering to father us all. It’s a fantastic book to give young men or women as it opens up the truth about growing into maturity in a language that is understandable and acceptable to them.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I feel like I cheated, because I was abandoned by my father at about the same age as Donald was when his dad took off. As Donald Miller waxes eloquently in Father Fiction he regularly reflects thoughts that I’ve learned through living in the pain, but then he sometimes gets me right between the eyes with an insight. He’s particularly strong at revealing his “fatherless” thoughts and comparing them to how others act; he openly shares his weaknesses, explaining them but not excusing them.
When he first starts to grasp God as a father through observing a child’s temper tantrum and how a father waits patiently knowing he has a better thought of what is excellent for his daughter though she writhes on the floor crying out that she is really the one who is right. How regularly must God the Father patiently observe us as we throw irritability about jobs, relationships or circumstance. I don’t know if I can ever be disgruntled again lacking picturing myself as a child throwing myself on the floor, kicking and screaming while my wise Father patiently waits for me to “get it”.
Kelly Ryan Dolan narrates this book so well that I presumed it was narrated by the leader and the leader had taken acting and speech lessons. As amusing and irreverent in expression as the leader is in prose, they’re a perfect match.
I give Father Fiction by Donald Miller 5 out of 5 stars.Father Fiction: Chapters for a Fatherless Generation
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5