Thursday, April 22, 2010

Lamb: Book Review by Me...

...okay, so I've totally slacked off on reading. My prime reading time is deer season so I started this book when we went to Florida and couldn't put it down then I got home and forgot all about it. I FINALLY finished Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore last night. Don't get me wrong, just because it took me 4 months to finish it doesn't mean it's not a good book, it just means I'm easily distracted. So here goes, my thoughts without giving the book away:

*Wow! Not at ALL what I expected. I am not a highly religious person so I would really like to hear the thoughts from someone that is or more so than I, which is probably anyone. I mean I thought it was a good book and I think it would be a little more clear if I had a better understanding of some of the things that went on (I found myself during our trip asking my mom a lot of questions) but I'm not sure how they would take it...like would they consider it to be sacrilegious?

*Can we just say there is a lot of fornication going on in this book? WOW!

*Mary Magdalene not how I pictured her from the Bible. She kind of reminds of woman power-Mary rocks!

*I really came to love Levi throughout the book. I mean he's an awesome friend to Joshua AKA Jesus and he's hilarious plus he marches to his own drum. I was really sad with Levi at the end of the book but happy in the epilogue.

So overall, good book...would definitely recommend it. I know there's some of you out there that have read it so please let me know what you thought of it.

3 comments :

Slamdunk said...

Deer season reader eh? Makes sense. It is more difficult for us to read as well when the weather is warm.

Meredith said...

I LOVED Lamb. I didn't have a problem with it, even though I'm religious, but I also haven't had a problem with the movies Dogma or Saved...so I might be in the minority.

FWIW, I went to a religious college, and almost everyone I knew read and loved the book!

Faith said...

I LOVED the book too. It cracked me up every second that I read it. I also have a 13 year old boy sense of humor though.