A Delicate Fade

by Benjamin DeVries

The only sense I ever made out of life was when a man told me the kingdom of God is placed between this world and the one to come. he said it hangs like a curtain between what I can see and feel (everything fragile and fading, like me) and everything whole. as weak as I am and as blind, it's here waiting to show itself. . . . ---Ben deVries What do you do when your experience of life doesn't match up with what you thought it should be? A delicate fade offers an intense, stream-of-consciousness narrative as a twenty-something writer wrestles with this and other questions. including quotes, snippets of poems, and a detailed and sensory exploration of the world around him, Ben DeVries chronicles his struggle to live between what is and what should be. an intensely personal journey of doubt, faith, and hope, a delicate fade is an honest chronicle of one person's exploration of Christianity, postmodernism, and the meaning of life. A lifetime and I saw you, I can see you change I remember everything (except what I am now) I remember how I spent all this time looking A lifetime watching, but I lost myself somewhere I found myself between what is and what was meant to be.

128 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2004

Reviews

[Jamie King · Rating 1 out of 5]

I couldn't finish this book. The author tried really hard to explain just exactly how he felt, and how he hurt, and how insecure he was, etc., but 55 pages into the book, I still didn't know anything about him... I just wondered what were these events he kept referencing that made his life so bad?...

[Kevin · Rating 2 out of 5]

I like his writing style, but man, he doesn't say anything in the whole book except for a few isolated paragraphs that I thought were good. The rest of the time, he's too vague to have any meaning. He does put words together well.

[Steve Veasey · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my favorite books from the past 15 years.
it profoundly impacted my views on faith and being okay to live in the uncertainties of daily life.

[Erica Gilliam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall, I enjoyed reading it. There were some very good ideas, theories, thoughts, etc that the author brought up which made me think. However, I felt like they were never really complete thoughts. The ideas were never brought to that next level and talked about in more detail. I felt like he was trying to say something meaningful, but he just couldn't really express himself enough. I wish he would have given more descriptive stories of his past or why he was in such a depressed state. He was very vague on a lot of things, but I believe the book has great potential. You just have to start reading it with an open mind.

[Mike · Rating 4 out of 5]

Stream-of-consciousness thoughts from a twentysomething on wrestling with his faith in a postmodern world. (7.5)