by Kevin Roose, Joshua Ferris
In this book Kevin Roose charts his journey as a transfer student at Liberty University (“Bible Boot Camp” according to Liberty’s founder Reverend Jerry Falwell). Roose is from a quintessential liberal family. His parents are Quakers and the family’s church activity was limited. He has two lesbian...
I have to give him credit. Going into it I thought it would be more biased than it actually was. He did a great job of separating himself from what he already knew and trying to understand the things he didn't. I don't know if I could have been so forgiving to some of the things he witnessed. Also I...
Started reading this last night and I am enjoying it. I'll offer a more in-depth review after I finish this.
I'm a little torn on how to rate this. I thought about giving it five stars because I thought it was so well done for such a young man. (After all, I have a mental stack of books I've promised myself I would write, and I'm twice his age.) I decided I wouldn't tack on the bonus points for age.I th...
I loved this book! As a former fundamentalist Christian myself I felt like I was able to appreciate both sides of the story, and the grey areas, and even the compelling craziness of hyper-conservative Christianity.
I love immersion journalism when it's done well. I'm mightily impressed by this Kevin Roose kid. He's funny, respectful, bold, thoughtful, and a darned good writer. At age 19, Roose decided he wanted to cross the "God Divide" that separates secular kids from ultra-religious ones. After a crash cou...
Evangelicalism frightens the hell out of me and this book has thus far really only served to reinforce that point of view. Roose is a fantastic writer, though, and I'm enjoying reading this book almost more than I enjoyed The Year of Living Biblically -- which I had no idea Roose had worked on until...
It felt a little one sided, albeit expectantly as the author is male, leaving one wondering what a female perspective of the same premise would be. (Though it doesn't surprise me that it was a male to first go through it...)But that is not much of a review. Coming from a liberal/agnostic background,...
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