I hated this book! I had to force myself to read every page. If I didn't feel committed to this MS book study, I would have quit it about 10% into the book. I decided to try to figure out what it was that I didn't like. Here's what I cam up with:

I believe most of what he says. But the words in this book came across as shallow, preachy, incongruent. They felt like nails on a chalk board. Could he really be that obnoxious?? I'm wondering if the problem is because this book is a rewriting... a modern, dumbed down version of the book. In the original language or at least in an early translation, it is possible that his words would have come across as loving and helpful. Here, however, they just pissed me off. ( )

The Message meets/crashes into/intrudes into a wonderful classic. Get the original; this edition is too jingoist. ( )