Dare to Desire

This was another cheap, hardly-counts book. However, I've been pretty good so far and haven't even resorted to my backup plan of reading juvenile fiction if I get far behind. This book was a devotional book anyhow, not an attempt to bolster my book count with an easy read.

Dare to Desire is a mini-book by John Eldredge, author of the popular Christian book for men, Wild at Heart. Eldredge loves to extol male stereotypes and enjoys explaining how they connect to Biblical themes and characters. If you are the "stereotypical" male, you will connect to his books quite well. In this book, he also attempts to connect to the stereotypical woman.

I don't think he's trying to be sexist, but if you don't fall into the stereotypical models he shows, then you will not connect to his books. That's me. I don't like violence. I don't need to be a big adventure hero. I hate the movie Braveheart. So I struggle to connect with his books. Others might enjoy his perspective.

My biggest problem with this very trite book is its message: Jesus wants to fulfill your heart's desires. Sometimes, yes, but there's a lot of issues with that kind of mindset. The book comes of as being very self-centered and largely not Jesus centered.

If you like Eldredge, you'll find yourself largely disappointed at this short book that recycles a lot of his previous material. If you aren't a fan, you really won't like this book.

Rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars

57/100 books...I'm closing out the month 7 books ahead of schedule!