The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781594132957 (159413295X)
Publish date: September 1st 2008
Publisher: Large Print Press
Pages no: 595
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Funny,
Book Club,
Religion,
Biography Memoir,
Christianity,
Spirituality
Well, ouch.
I saw the book mostly as contrived. He seemed to have only picked and chose the parts of the bible he wanted to take literally and didn't seem to do most of them. I wouldn't really recommend this book except as a library loan and if you have nothing better to do for that weekend.
I'm a big fan of social experiments, documentaries and the like. I came across A.J. Jacobs' book The Year Of Living Biblically (complete with a picture of him dressed all Moses-esque on the cover) one day during one of my secondhand book shopping binges and immediately chucked it into my husband-cri...
Actual rating = 3.5 because I Iiked The Know It All better and I gave that one 4 stars.
A.J. Jacobs is hilarious, and honestly so. He made Leviticus so much more interesting than I ever thought it could be.
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