I received a free copy of Same Kind Of Different As Me from Thomas Nelson publishers to read and write a review for them. This is a facvtual book but while reading it you get the feeling that it could easily be fiction. It is about two friends and each person takes turns telling their part, Ron tells his part and then Denver takes over and tells his part.
Now Ron Hall is an Art Dealer that travels all over the world to buy and to sell his expensive pieces of art. In living in this manner he has become very wealthy and very self-centered. He is growing away from his family and his wife thought it might help him to do some volunteer work at a homeless shelter so he could see how others have to live.
Now while working there he meets a man, Denver Moore, that grew up in Louisiana as a sharecropper, which as it turns out is not much different than the way his older relatives had lived. But he decided to leave Fort Worth, Texas as perhaps life would be easier for him. The two men meet as one is serving food and the other is there to receive it.
It is hard for Ron to get Denver's personality to break but they finally do make friends even though they are two men from two different worlds. They go through a tragedy together and as it ends up each man ends up teaching the other man about his own life.
This books ends up making you feel like it is a novel because it ends up being just too good to be true. Everything the men write let you know that their worlds are almost completely opposite and this shows what can happen if we all open our minds and our hearts and just give each other a chance.
