I’ve read the Bible. No, seriously. Read it. A lot of people say that but that’s because they are afraid God is listening and will strike them down for not saying they’ve read it.
If you read the Bible, you probably thought about one thing that myself (and many others) have pondered… Where are all the stories of Jesus from infancy to age 33. Surely he did not live an uneventful life, doing nothing but his carpenter thing until his early thirties and then all the sudden decide that since he could heal people that maybe he should. Wonder no more. Christopher Moore has shown us the light.
Christopher Moore’s book “Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal” fills you in all all the great god stuff that the Bible forgot about. If you take your churching real serious like, you might want to pass over this book. I myself found this book to be laugh out loud funny in a number of parts of the book.
It’s got everything you love from the Bible (whores, bestiality, violence against children) and it adds some Kung Fu, more whores, . If you are religious, you should still enjoy the story. The story takes a humorous attempt at explaining the life of Christ but it isn’t exactly flat out blasphemy. The closer the book gets to the crucifixion, the more serious the book gets. There is also a multiple page afterword by the author where he gingerly steps through how he wasn’t trying to offend (and where he did his research).
Oh, and the image used of the cover of the book comes from maubrowncow’s flickr account and, yes, I am using under fair use as per the CC licensing that applies to it.
