A Day with a Perfect Stranger

This book was great! It was very inspiring just like the book Dinner with the Perfect Stranger. I could not put the book down. Just like the first book I had tears in my eyes on the last page. It moved me that much. I have given this book to all my friends to read and we are all in agreement that there has to be a third book written to see what happends to Matti and Nick.

Just as in the first book (Dinner with a Perfect Stranger), "A Day With a Perfect Stranger" is a very easy and quick read. However the depth of the content will satisfy those who read it. I would say that anyone who has a friend, a mate, a family member, or a whatever who has had a major life changing experience that others cannot comprehend or relate to will be grabbed by this book. The lead character is the wife of Nick (who was the central character in the first book besides Jesus Christ). The wife is now struggling with the new found passion for the Lord that Nick has found after the alarming news that he had dinner with Jesus Christ. The Lord? Thoughts of craziness and questions raced thru her mind. Is this true? Why has her husband made such a drastic change? And why did he do so without explaining it to me so I may have input in the drastic transformation? Her means of coping was to instead hop a plane to head out for a business trip - which was more to the liking of a means to get away and prepare for a divorce. However, who should sit beside her in her escapism? Jesus Christ, of course. Feel good book and one that I highly recommend. To fully grasp the depth, reading the first book lends itself to a more complete picture.

First the book,'Dinner With a Perfect Stranger', then the movie, 'The Perfect Stranger', now another book -'Day With a Perfect Stranger'. David Gregory (along with the filmmakers) has successfully mastered this means of telling the world about a kind-hearted Jesus who loves each of us like his own child....so far from the scary, fire-and-brimstone, guilt-and-judgement view of religion so many of us grew up with. Jesus was not only a Savior, but also a teacher - and these stories bring out that fact with warmth, compassion, and wit. Read the books, watch the DVD, wait for another movie...whichever you do, you'll be the better for it.

Small books with big promises just don't do it for me. I'm usually left disappointed and wanting more. In the case of "Dinner With a Perfect Stranger," I was caught off guard, pleasantly so, by the writer's easy wit and clear--if somewhat simplistic--views of Christianity compared to other worldviews. The story was wrapped up in a single idea, worked to its fullest, in the form of a fictional tale. It was one "Dinner..." I enjoyed. So here comes a follow-up, and I wasn't sure whether to expect leftovers, or something fresh. "A Day With a Perfect Stranger" can be read independently of the first book, yet gives some continued satisfaction to those of us who enjoyed the debut. Whereas the first book followed a man and his chance to ask theological questions of Jesus, this book takes us into a day with that man's wife. She's wrestling with her husband's new "religious" fanaticism. Her frustrations seem real, and her questions are less theological, but important ones nonetheless. When she encounters two strangers on an airplane, they work as a foil for the story's overall theme: a relationship with Jesus versus a stale form of religion. Like its predecessor, this is a light read, somewhat fluffy with an emotional twist, yet it seems to grapple with real life along the way. You can read it in an hour or two, but it's worth much more than "A Day..." of your time.