In The Great Good
Thing, Andrew Klavan shared his life story and how he grew up to be Jewish.
He didn’t really believe in Christ. Throughout the book, he walks readers
through how he came to discover Christ and how he built a relationship with
Him. Andrew Klavan grew up in the luxurious suburbs, Great Neck of Long Island.
His parents taught him that he was supposed to dislike the town and not to be a
part of it. His father was a DJ in New York. He would treat Andrew different
from his three brothers. His father would ridicule him, hit him, and he
believed that his father was always against him. His brothers even noticed that
he would be treated differently. When he was caught reading the New Testament part
of the Bible, his father freaked out and was very angry and he told him that he
would be disowned from the family.
From a young age, Andrew was always a dreamer and he would
craft stories to help him deal with his life. His father would constantly give
him advice and introduce him to people who would purposely misguide him. He
would try and sabotage when Andrew was typing up a story and he hated the idea
of Andrew writing a story. Andrew eventually wrote a couple of famous novels, “True
Crime”, “Don’t Say a Word”, “Empire of Lies”, “The Homelanders Series”, and “The
Mindwar Trilogy”.
I would recommend this life changing book to anyone who
enjoys reading an autobiography about how a man came to know Christ. I have
read the entire The Homelanders Series, The Mindwar Trilogy, as well, as a few
of his other standalone books. I was curious to see how one of my favorite writers
became an author and how he pursued his career. I was shocked to read about how
harsh his father was on him and how bad he treated him because he was afraid
his son was going to outshine him. I also connected with how open he was in
revealing how he battled depression and suicide. I love how he shared how he
came to know Christ and how he began to write Christian fiction novels.
If you
would like to purchase a copy of The
Great Good Thing, check it out on Amazon.com:
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