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Title: No Ordinary Lives: One Man's Surprising Journey into the Heart of America by David Johnson ISBN: 0-446-52639-8 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 09 July, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: a new appreciation
Comment: I read this book in just two days! It's enjoyable to read with plenty of light humor, but it also touches on deeper issues like love, family, faith, and personal loss. The author relates the lives of the people he interviews with his own life, and he shows that seemingly 'ordinary' people have something important to share with others. This book gave me a new appreciation for the people I come into contact with everyday.

Rating: 2
Summary: Enjoyable stories but tends to self-promote
Comment: I found many of the stories enjoyable but the author tends to inject his own life into too much of the work which is distracting. The book would be better served by a cursory introduction followed by the many wonderful stories of everyday people (stories that I find much more enjoyable than any Hollywood could produce). Instead the author wraps his own life into many of the stories which creates more of a story about him instead of about the people. It would be better to get this book from the Library and try to skip over the self-promotion.

Rating: 4
Summary: Everyone really does have a story
Comment: I have been a fan of David Johnson's newspaper columns for more than 20 years, but I always viewed them as isolated stories. By collecting them in a book -- and tying them together with his own life story -- Johnson shows them as part of a larger narrative. The setting is northern Idaho but the themes -- love, family, hardship, compassion and success -- are universal.