The Year Of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

Humorous

This review is from: The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible (Trade Paperback)

10 months ago

This book was pretty good. I found it alittle boring at times, mainly because I am not a religious person, so reading parts from the bible weren't that exciting to me. However, the fact that someone actually took the bible to the most literal sense and tried to live their life that way is pretty fascinating and courageous I would think, especially in this day and age!!!! It also had some humorous parts to it. Overall not a bad book to read.

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Thought-Provoking

12 months ago

The Year of Living Biblically is the second experimental memoir by Jacobs. Even though the idea behind the book is very similar to his encyclopedia quest - to conduct a study and record the observations - the final result is absolutely different. It does carry Jacobs’s quirky humor and sarcasm, but the monologue behind those is much more serious and personal. Maybe it is so because of the subject matter, but I found The Year of Living Biblically to be more deep. Jacobs is doing it again. He… + read more

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Educational!

This review is from: The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible (Trade Paperback)

11 months ago

This book was a great read! I am not a very religious person, so I have very little knowledge of the Bible. It was very enlightening while being humourous as well. It was an adventure following A.J. Jacobs through his journey.

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A Must Read!!!

17 months ago

This book is a must read if you really wnat to know some of the more obscure parts of the Bible like not wearing mixed fibres. He might have driven his wife crazy at times, but it does give a lot of understanding as to how someone should live if they truly want to follow the Bible.

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Hilarious & Insightful

This review is from: The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible (Trade Paperback)

12 months ago

A.J. Jacobs set out to follow the Bible's words, as literally as possible, for an entire year. As ambitious of a task as this seems, it is not entirely uncharacteristic of Jacobs, given his previous book, “The Know-It-All”, which documents his reading of the Encyclopedia Britannica from A to Z. With the guidance of Rabbis, Priests, professors and friends, Jacobs sets out on his quest and ends up learning a lot about himself along the way. He explores a number of religious sects and groups… + read more

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Fantastic!

2 years ago

I highly enjoyed this book. Couldn't put it down and finished it in under a week. Good humour, insight and makes you think (rather you're a believer or not). Agreed, he should have delved more into Catholicism, etc. I got it from my library, but I'm going to buy it to add it to my collection.

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Funny, Informative -great book!!

This review is from: The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible (Trade Paperback)

13 months ago

I bought this book for a friend and ended up reading it myself. I thought it was great--I'm not a super religious person, more of a believer but don't like all the 'our church is better than your's' This book talks about the origins of both the Old and New Testaments. AJ is a really funny writer but also informative. The situations he found himself in were amusing. I was sad to finish reading it.

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Cafeteria Christians

2 years ago

I love reading about the flaws in religion. In saying that, I really enjoyed this book. I like how he does (almost) everything by the Bible, even going so far as to more-or-less sacrifice a chicken. I also liked the term "Cafeteria Christians" meaning they take what they like and leave what they don't, even fundementalists do it because in the Bible it says that a woman is not allowed to speak in church. There are so many obscure rules, you're not allowed to wear mixed fabrics and break the… + read more

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