Run With the Horses: The Quest for Life at Its Best

Short Review: I am not particularly sure how to review this book in a short format. Through out most of it I was frustrated with the focus on excellence and activity (even if it was more about a redefinition of those terms.) Peterson used Jeremiah (both the book and the person) as his jumping off point and skips along through the book in the way that he does. I am not really complaining about Peterson's exegesis, he is good as normal. But instead my complaint is that it seems that he asked by his editor to write something that might be marketed to the Christian leadership market.

At the end though, after being frustrated throughout the book, I went back and looked at my highlights (I have a number of quotes in my main blog review) and realized that while I didn't really enjoy the book, I did highlight an awful lot of a book that I didn't particularly think spoke to me. So maybe I got a lot more out of it than I thought I did initially. But that leaves me still unsure how to give it a number rating or whether to recommend it or not.

For the most part I think I would recommend Peterson's Practice Resurrection instead. I think it is a better book, covers a lot of similar material, feels less dated with Christian leadership jargon and it more corporate church focused and less individual Christian focused.

But I don't want to suggest that this is not worth reading. I think that if you like leadership books, this might be more up your alley.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/run-horses-quest-life-best-eugene-peterson/