Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
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- ISBN13: 9780849919107
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
A treacherous, homeless drifter who grew up alternative cotton in virtual slavery.
An upscale art dealer accustomed to the world of Armani and Chanel.
A gutsy woman with a stubborn dream.
A tale so incredible no novelist would dare dream it.
It starts outside a burning plantation hut in Louisiana . . . and an East Texas honky-tonk . . . and, lacking a doubt, in the heart of God. It unfolds in a Hollywood hacienda . . . an upscale New York gallery . . . a downtown dumpster . . . a Texas ranch.
Stark with pain and treachery and cruelty, this right tale also shines with an unexpected, life-changing like.
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This book had a HUGE 50% off mark stuck on the front of it like somebody bought it at a 1/2 Fee Book store; yet, charged me full fee for it. I am not pleased about it. There’s no way I could give this as a gift to a name else. The mark could not be peeled off lacking tearing the take in up.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Here’s the gist of this book: I’m so rich, I made so much money, people who are different than I are less than I, especially if they are poor and black. Oh, look! I learned compassion! Yay me!
Ho hum. I suspect he is pilfering the money from the book because he is white and better than everyone, while his “New Best Friend” gets a McDonalds gift card, and a clean piece of cardboard. What a tiresome creep!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I read this book because it was chosen as the ONE CITY/ONE BOOK choice for my city. Literature, it is not. Thoughtful? No way! This book reminds me of when I was a teenager lying on the couch fantasizing about climbing Mount Everest as I read the National Geographic with my feet propped up. I expect its readers will fantasize about developing a meaningful cross-cultural relationship and go on to something else in a few weeks. Ron Hall is a very rich art dealer whose wife Debbie befriended an illiterate street man and more or less involved Ron before dying of cancer. Rumor has it that Ron wrote the tale while dealing with his grief, added Denver’s words (partly in dialect) using a tape recorder or something, got a third person to fix it up to some extent, and published it as a vanity publication. How, why, or on what terms Thomas Nelson later selected it up is not clear. I personally was uninspired by the way it glossed over all the hard and meaningful social questions and by the apparent ego-trip for Ron. I also establish it poorly written and really fuzzy when it came to details about things like whether Denver ever learned to read and what can be done about today’s deprived children. On the additional hand, I did eventually climb mountains in Nepal. Maybe this book can plant the first seeds of some worthwhile questions for young people who would not have otherwise thought outside of their bubble.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This was highly recommended, but after 3 pages I knew it wasn’t for me
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Did I read the same book as the rest of you people?
It was 150 pages too long, it was preachy and simple-minded and it was really, really terrible writing. The main narrator of the tale struck me as a used car salesman in an Armani suit. He was a vain, worldly man who altered his moral compass only when it met his own supplies. When will people learn that over-using the words CHRISTIAN and JESUS doesn’t make them any more moral than an atheist, or a Jew or a Muslim?
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5