Book review - Same kind of different as me

I was able to have the opportunity to read this book and blog about my reactions to it.

This is the story of two men, one a black man who was a sharecropper in the Deep South, the other a white man who was a self made millionaire. About how they got to be where they are and how their lives intertwined and mixed.

The story of Denver is a gut-wrenching story about a man raised in such complete poverty that I am not even sure that I can understand it.

Ron on the other hand starts with next to nothing and finds a calling in selling artwork and makes quite that life for himself and his family. His wife really drives him to get involved in a homeless ministry and to reach out to Denver.

This becomes a defining moment for each man, and the changes that come over them as they share life together. The outcome of all of this is quite remarkable.

As powerful as the story of each of their lives is, this wasn’t the most enjoyable book to read. I really wanted to like this book, to be pulled into this moving story but it just didn’t happen. I am not sure if it was in the alternating ‘voices’ as each man tells their story in different chapters, or what it was. But it seemed that while this was a very moving story it was told at kind of a surface overly ‘spiritual catch phrase’ manner rather then really exploring their lives.

So while I am grateful for the opportunity to have gotten to read and review this book it was overall just ok for me.