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Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together - Community Reviews back

by Ron Hall, Denver Moore
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Momster Bookworm
Momster Bookworm rated it 10 years ago
Just as idolatry can take many forms, bondage comes in different guises as well. Slavery is one extreme, as can be something as seemingly simple as a comfort zone. This is a true story of two diametrically different men, whose lives would otherwise never have crossed, but for one woman. This hearten...
My Never Ending List
My Never Ending List rated it 10 years ago
This is a true spiritual story that will definitely move you. Recommended to me by my sister-in-law she warned me that I would need tissues by the time I finished the book but I don’t think I have cried this much over a book in a long time. The story is centered upon two gentlemen whose unique frien...
Carpe Librum
Carpe Librum rated it 11 years ago
Same Kind of Different as Me is sort of a dual memoir of Ron Hall and Denver Moore. Both grew up in the 1940s-1960s but their lives could not have turned out more differently. Hall becomes an investment banker then art dealer, horrifying his wife with an impulse purchase of a Rolls Royce. Moore is r...
52 Book Minimum
52 Book Minimum rated it 12 years ago
3.25 Stars. If you're a lover of spiritual books, this one will probably be a 5 on your list. In comparison to The Shack and Heaven is for Real, at least I can say I was more interested in this one. The writing was WAAAAAY better than those two. The first half of this book was good. Ron and Den...
Party of Five
Party of Five rated it 12 years ago
This book was very well written. A memoir, it tells the story of Dever Moore, a former sharecropper, homeless and untrusting of white folk ever since he stopped to help a white lady broken down on the side of the road and received a beating for his effort. Ron Hall is a man who is wealthy and egotis...
Jessica's Random Book Ramblings
Jessica's Random Book Ramblings rated it 12 years ago
This book...What can I say...It just really moved me. What a great friendship these two had.
Inklings
Inklings rated it 13 years ago
I found this book to be quite engaging and more moving than I would have expected. Due to circumstances I had to read the second half of the book in a single sitting, and I wasn't prepared to ball like a baby. This book reminds me how much of life we miss out on because we hide dying people quietly ...
ladydi
ladydi rated it 13 years ago
I loved this book and would highly recommend it as a moving and inspirational read.
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it 13 years ago
I'd rather read a book that didn't focus on Debbie, or God, but on the artist, Denver.
For the Love of Books
For the Love of Books rated it 14 years ago
I think that this was one of the best most insprialtional books I have read in a very long time...I love the approach of how God works and even if you do not follow a particular religion you will find this book very uplifting
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