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Title: High Points and Lows

Subtitle: Life, Faith and Figuring It All Out

Author: Austin Carty

Narrator: Austin Carty

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-26-10

Publisher: Oasis Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

For readers who loved Blue Like Jazz, comes inspiration and advice from Survivor contestant and Christian speaker Austin Carty

Figuring out who you want to be in life is never easy. In High Points and Lows, Austin Carty traces his own stumbling journey toward adulthood and true faith, drawing on lessons from pop culture and Christianity. In these funny and moving essays that address questions on faith, goals, and vocation, Carty offers an uplifting message for religious and secular audiences alike.

By turns amusing and endearing, Carty's essays explore everything from misguided evangelicals who treat salvation as a cottage industry to the real danger of cheating in school-everyone will think you're brilliant and then you've got a real problem. Whether he is failing miserably at his first real job as a nightclub gofer, explaining how Saved by the Bell has ruined our youth, or struggling to come to terms with the death of a beloved friend, Carty demonstrates how finding the courage to be ourselves is the best way to forge a genuine connection with friends, family, and God.

Members Reviews:

Shatters the formula of many Christian books

This is a truly refreshing book, something for everyone, not just Christians. I have read it twice already. Do not let the "Religion" category turn you away if you're not religious, because it is still a great read! While going to a Christian high school, I was so swept up by the "popular" Christian books written by big name pastors/evangelists that put the weight of the world on your shoulders. Those stress radical obedience, gauged by the level of physical suffering (emotional does not count), over-seas missions (domestic missions do not count), and how many "unreached" people you save. Those authors are passionate, but formulaic, and they assume you should copy their lives exactly or else face the intense and easily capitalized fear of being lukewarm. Carty instantly shatters that formula in the first chapter, writing about his disillusionment with the standardized altar call (how many Christians can remember those from their teenage years?). It is both enraging and funny, because it confirms what we probably already suspected of altar calls anyway. Carty brings this seriousness and humor to the rest of his book by just talking about different moments of his life. Of course, some would say this book is too comfortable or not radical enough because it does not tell you to suffer a specific way or take up a prescribed cross and follow Jesus. However, if it removes the paralyzing fear of not living up to the standard of the elite, experienced pastors and evangelists of our day, then maybe it is actually quite powerful. Now I am just waiting for his next book like this

Wonderful Read!

This book showed up in my life at the perfect time (years ago). It's amazing. I always keep a stash to give away and it's our go to gift for graduates.

One of the strongest "conversational" writers has delivered

Austin, either in person or on the page, is so effective as a communicator because he's so charmingly eloquent as much as he's a passionate and down-to-earth storyteller. Never has that been more clear than in High Points & Lows.