Monsters Addiction Hope Exgirlfriends and Other Dangerous Things edition by Daniel van Voorhis Health Fitness Dieting eBooks
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This is a story of a historian turning his craft to the story about which he is most afraid his own. This is a book about fighting the monsters of addiction, severe anxiety, depression, and crippling self-doubt. But more than this, it is about a fight against hope. And how the author fought for thirty years against hope. He fought that dreadful proposition that there might be something else out there that offered some kind of reprieve. He fought, and hoped against hope.
And lost.
This is a story about a crooked family tree, bent and twisted by suicide, alcoholism and abandonment. This is a story about carving out an early career in television, radio, and comedy and then walking away for a girl. This is the story of a decade spent in the hallowed halls of academia by day, and the gutter by night (and the terrifying things found in both places).
This is a story about a string of girlfriends and almost girlfriends, about breaking up and being broken up.
The narrator is not the the hero, nor is he the only author. For a couple to agree on anything can be hard enough, but especially so when the things upon which they must agree took place more than twenty years ago. And so throughout the story, when ex-girlfriends and his wife come into play, they have had the opportunity to write unfiltered and unedited footnotes about what they believe actually happened. It is his story, but it is theirs too.
The monsters are real. They are addiction and chemicals and fear and angry ex-girlfriends. But the real monster is one much scarier... and the one the author still can't shake.
Monsters Addiction Hope Exgirlfriends and Other Dangerous Things edition by Daniel van Voorhis Health Fitness Dieting eBooks
This book is amazing. Dan wrote in the forward that he would have preferred to stand in the middle of the city complete naked than write and public this book. He's right. He writes with naked honesty and an unfliching accountability.Hope in Christ and Intimacy are what helped him with his monsters. You don't need to read the book for that little bit of advice.
But that's not why you absolutely should buy this book. It's one thing to abstractly know that things can get better, but it's another thing to experience it through the words of Dan van Voorhis.
I highly recommend it for anyone struggling with addiction or despair or someone who has darkness in their life and is looking for a good narrative that shows hope is real and things can get better.
I think most people should read it, especially young Christians. Not because they need to be scared away from bad behavior, but because they need stories and examples like this that it's possible for things to hang in there and believe that everything is going to be okay.
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Monsters Addiction Hope Exgirlfriends and Other Dangerous Things edition by Daniel van Voorhis Health Fitness Dieting eBooks Reviews
After waiting a long time for this book to be released, it is now one of my favorites. From the 90's cultural references to the playlists for every chapter, van Voorhis has meticulously crafted a work that will have you laughing out loud one minute and crying the next. (Really--I read this book with my wife, and she teared up throughout.) At times it seemed I was reliving my own childhood, and at other times I couldn't believe this actually happened. Everyone has monsters to face, and even when they seem to be defeated, they can spring back up in surprising ways. Highly entertaining read for sure.
This book is not for everyone. I think I confused my wife when I read it all in one day; I giggled stupidly at teenaged antics, and fell very melancholy in the next paragraph. The closest feelings it invoked were ones I got reading "A Clockwork Orange" or "Kaffir Boy" when I was probably way too young to properly digest its contents.
The foreward (proper) is to be taken really quite seriously after finishing chapter one, you could quite easily skip parts of it and still receive the intended message. To ground myself, I found myself re-reading the front cover up to pg 8 a couple times. After the author gives you a few topically-organized peeks at his life, I would feel the same angry gnawing in my gut that you get passing a particularly gruesome automobile accident. What was this book supposed to be about again? Oh yeah; hope, and hoping against hope.
The way it's organized is a little confusing until you acquire some familiarity with the whole of his life (I sorta wish I had drawn an annotated timeline or something to bring a little more coherence). But I think the organization is necessary. People are messy and complicated and fighting simultaneous impossible battles all the time. Thanks for the peek into yours.
Very easy-to-read account of the author's life and his need for grace and mercy. I think it has become virtuous in recent history to write and speak in an "authentic" way, and this is supposed to make all of us feel better about our badness. Essentially, this trend is the lowering of the law to our high anthropological aspirations. This book doesn't focus on authenticity to make it a new law, but honesty and authenticity are the fruit of a worldview that understands the mercy and grace that is available in the message of Jesus. The book doesn't connect the dots on this very explicitly, but it is there. Besides the deep stuff, as someone who was born in the same year as the author, and who grew up on the west (best) coast- it was fun to read about the 80's and 90's.
When someone asks me how I’m doing, the most honest response I can give is, “How much time do you have?”
We do not live simple, one-word-answer lives, and “Monsters Nobody Reads the Subtitles” by Dan van Voorhis is not a simple, one-word-answer autobiography. There is not a linear progression from sinner to saint, no tidy summation at the end about lessons learned and battles won. I actually thought he was going to wrap things up several different times, only to be surprised by another chapter. Kind of like a Mars Volta song or the film version of “The Return of The King”. In fact, it sometimes reads like he dropped the manuscript before the book went to the printer, said, “F&%# it”, and now the chapters are all out of order. As long as you don’t go in expecting that everything flows from event to event you’ll be fine.
I enjoyed the book more having listened to Dan over the past few years on the “Virtue in the Wasteland” podcast. His humor and way of speaking come through in his writing. There were several points where I cackled like a maniac while sitting in the car by myself. The footnote about deciding how to describe a lady of... debatable morals (my term) was particularly delightful (in a deplorable, not suitable for church or mixed company kind of way).
This is not to say that the book is an easy read. Even the process of writing it led to a serious crisis in Dan’s own marriage. There is real sorrow here, but it is hope-tinged. We do not defeat our monsters, rather we can learn to live with them. Dan’s desperate reliance on grace and the Gospel resonated with me, reflecting my own journey away from modern evangelicalism into a more liturgical based denomination.
My takeaway has less to do with the particulars of the story, because the details are specific to Dan. Rather it is the reminder that even after recounting a life of triumphs and failures, after weighing the scales and finding that they are decidedly balanced against us, if we can still crawl to the Lord’s table, if we can still take comfort in the shadow of the cross, then we can say with confidence that somehow, someday, everything is going to be okay.
This book is amazing. Dan wrote in the forward that he would have preferred to stand in the middle of the city complete naked than write and public this book. He's right. He writes with naked honesty and an unfliching accountability.
Hope in Christ and Intimacy are what helped him with his monsters. You don't need to read the book for that little bit of advice.
But that's not why you absolutely should buy this book. It's one thing to abstractly know that things can get better, but it's another thing to experience it through the words of Dan van Voorhis.
I highly recommend it for anyone struggling with addiction or despair or someone who has darkness in their life and is looking for a good narrative that shows hope is real and things can get better.
I think most people should read it, especially young Christians. Not because they need to be scared away from bad behavior, but because they need stories and examples like this that it's possible for things to hang in there and believe that everything is going to be okay.
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