Tuesday, November 6, 2012

#0113A The Year of Living Bibically - AJ Jacobs

This is one man's humble quest to follow the Bible as literally as possible for a whole year. All of A.J. Jacobs books are him studying up on a subject and living out that subject for a year. He's done one with having his life experimented on, one about reading the entire encyclopedia and so on and so forth. I get on kicks of reading religious book and since I hadn't read on in awhile this one was interesting. 

Not only was this book hilarious but while Jacobs was doing this, you could see him "changing" throuhout the book. Not saying that he converted to Christianity, but becoming a better person in general. For most of the year he followed the Old Testament. He didn't wear clothes that were of mixed fiber, he didn't cut his beard, he wouldn't sit where unclean women sat, and he stoned people. Although I don't know if you could really call it "stoning" people if you just drop a pebble on a person's shoe. Not sitting where unclean women have sat was probably the most funny part. His wife was getting tired of some of the things he picked up, so she sat on every service that you could possibly sit on in his house. He ended up carrying around a type of stool so he could sit down. 

I give it 4 stars because I enjoyed it and I know that this book isn't for everyone. 

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