Product ReviewsSame Kind of Different as Me : A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together by Ron Hall and Denver Moore (2008, Trade Paperback)

A Beautiful Story of Faith and Friendship

The remarkable story of how two complete opposites become close friends and what they learn from each other. It is a story of faith and how it is tested and strengthened. This was a book club selection from my local club. The reason I joined was to take me out of my reading comfort zone, expose me to new authors and get my mind stirring in different directions. This book met all three of these goals.Read full review...

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A book that has changed the way I look at life

I have always liked autobiographies and "hearing someone else's life story" and finding out what they learned from life's experiences. I bought this book because one of the authors was coming to my favorite church in Springfield, Missouri (Second Baptist Church), and I wanted to find out why they supported him. This book was really touching in a convicting sort of way. It centers around a very wealthy woman's ministry to the homeless in Fort Worth, Texas: a ministry that served to win the homeless to Christ by simply loving them: through total non-judgmental selflessness and friendship on her part, and by making each realize that, no matter what they'd been through, each was worthwhile. Nothing was too dirty a task for her to do for someone else. Even while dealing with a very aggressive form of cancer, Deborah still was thinking of others. It was inspiring to read of the practical ways she touched other's lives and to hear direct testimony of how such seemingly simple everyday things can show people who have buckled under the strain of life the love they need to feel like someone cares, and thus, to motivate them to be ready to hear about the love of Jesus Christ. I would recommend this book to every Christian who is interested in true evangelism.Read full review...

same kind of different as me!

I've read it before. Excellent book. A good friend of mine loaned it to me to read. I gave it back to him a couple of years ago. He passed away several weeks ago, at 91 years old. Navy and Air Force Veteran from WWII, and Korea. His daughter took his books. I wanted a copy, as a memory. The Movie is supposed to be out, sometime this month.Read full review...

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Same Kind of Different as Me

Love this book. How every other chapt is written from each of the authors point of view. How from the vast differences between the two men comes together.

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Same Kind of Different

This is one of the best books I've ever read. A real game changer!! I loaned my original copy to a friend and never got it back, so this is a replacement. It's the kind of book that you will want to re-read!! Heartwarming '❤️Read full review...

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Amazing Journey of Friendship, Faith, and Fidelity

I bought this book because I belong to a Book Club that is reading it. We chose the book partly because the authors live in our community.

It is the most amazing story ~ or several stories intertwined ~ the chapters alternate from one author to the other ~ their points of view & style are different ~ and both so honest & wonderful. The stories are really three journeys, intertwined. This true story addresses faith, friendship, and fidelity. It gives an inside view into homelessness & also addresses cancer & death, which opened some old wounds for me - but was healing for me as well.

Easy to read, yet full of substance & depth. I highly recommend this book.Read full review...

Same Kind of Different as Me

First of all, the primary author is RON Hall, not Dawn. Had become tired of checking out the book from the library and wanted to loan it out to my friends! This is one of the best books I've EVER read...and everyone should read it! Being made into a movie, it's listed as inspirational, but that creeps up on you. The setting is Ft Worth, my home town, so I could follow every twist and turn...even recognized some names, but how it touched my heart was what was unique. I gave away 20 copies of Rick Warren's Purpose Drive Life. Wish I could afford to give away a copy of Same Kind of Different as Me to everyone I see!Read full review...

Very good book

Two people from very different lives tell their history and become best friends through experience of joy and tragedy. A refreshing read.

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Same Kind of Different as Me

A great and inspiring account of how God changes lives!
Interesting interchange in style between standard American English and everyday street talk as used by an illiterate person

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"Same kind" is WAY different!

I am a journalist and literary non-fiction writer, so I am fairly difficult to impress. This book flows incredibly well, and builds to an unexpected climax. I literally cried on the flight home while reading some passages - and I am a pretty tough character.
Linguistically, the (eubonics)voice of one of the characters can be a tad hard to digest, but it is well worth the challenge. I was so impressed with this book - and its unique view of the African-American plight in the south - that I started reading it aloud to one of my neighbors (an 80-year-old illiterate black woman.
She can't wait to see me walk across the street, book in hand. I think that's the best thing this book accomplishes - it helps to instill a sense of duty and community in those who consume it. This paperback version makes it easy to offer up as a gift!

Happy reading,

Timothy

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