Through Painted Deserts

This is probably the least overtly religious of Millers books. In it Miller recounts a journey from Texas to Oregon that he took with his friend Paul in a Volkswagen van. The experiences they have and the people they meet along the way are described and reflected on often with much humour. Miller's description of the journey also forms the basis for wider refection on life. Along the way he discovers that life is simultaneously simpler and more complicated than he had previously believed. \\r\\n\\r\\nReading this book will have young men thinking about the future and old men reflecting on the past. Those like me stuck someplace between being a young man and old man will do a little of both. I'm not really sure what a women (young or old) will make of it. \\r\\n\\r\\nThis is a decidedly male book but not in any kind of chauvinistic way. It's just a bloke's book about a bloke's journey told in a genuinely blokey way. I think this is part of the reason I'm coming to enjoy Millers books so much. It's unusual to find someone who writes so well about spirituality in a narrative style who's writing does not feel neutered. \\r\\n\\r\\nIn the end this book is just a great road trip story told well.