Piper Bestseller

[Lauryn]

In the strange but true department, there's a non-fiction paperback on the NYT Bestsellers List by a Don Piper called "90 Minutes in Heaven." It's about a Baptist minister (Piper) who gets in a traffic accident, is pronounced dead, and goes to heaven for a while, and then back.

Whoa, what if that would've happened to Donald Piper on RS? Maybe he started to take that freeway off-ramp one day to hurry home to Frances and the little Pipers, but rebelliously veered off at the last minute and caused his own semi-fatal traffic demise. As long as he didn't make her miffed by telling her why it happened, Frances would just be bursting with curiosity.

Frances: Donald... what's it really like?

Donald: Aw, honey, heaven can wait! All the kids have straight teeth and no cavities.

Frances: Poor thing. You know, I could find something to keep your hands busy.

Donald: You little devil! [Frances squeals] I think I chose the wrong afterlife.

[Ace]

LOL!!!!!!!!!!

Donald was my favorite Holt relation by far and if he could own a chain of athletic footwear stores and be a dentist -- why not a writer?

[Yuliya]

Really, why not? Writing is a hobby, dentistry - a profession, and stores - an investment. And if he died and came back, then he may not even need a ghost writer, just a good editor. No pun intended. ;D

I'm a bit fuzzy today, so I just want to make sure I read this right. This is not a fiction, correct? So what does it make it - an autobiography? I'm so confused...

[Lauryn]

yuliya said:

Really, why not? Writing is a hobby, dentistry - a profession, and stores - an investment. And if he died and came back, then he may not even need a ghost writer, just a good editor. No pun intended. ;D

I'm a bit fuzzy today, so I just want to make sure I read this right. This is not a fiction, correct? So what does it make it - an autobiography? I'm so confused...

I really have no idea other than it's about the writer's 90 minute experience in the afterlife. As to whether that would make it fiction, I guess we'd have to leave that question to the faithful and the philosophers. I haven't read it but it's finding a big audience, especially among those who read "Christian" fiction and non-fiction -- not surprising since Piper is a Baptist minister and his perceptions will no doubt be filtered through his faith.

The Donald Piper of RS might be less theological and more fun, eh?