A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University.While I was reading A Year of Living Biblically, by A J Jacobs, he mentioned that he gained a kind of intern during his year of living biblical, who turned out to be Kevin Roose. I looked Roose up and found that he had written his own Jacob's type of book himself, after interning with AJ.
Roose grew up in a Quaker family and he started going to Brown University. He was a writer and was completely interested in going undercover as a student at Liberty University for a semester. While there he tried his best to blend in and took the correct classes as any Liberty student. He prayed when everyone else prayed, he went to Bible Study, and had his group of supporting friends and counselors. He even began courting a girl he was interested in.
Like Jacob's book, you could start to see a "change" in Roose. While not converting into a conservative, far right, Christian, he took a lot of respect to those Liberty kids with him. He showed everyone who has read this book that they are people too and are not as bad as everyone thinks they are. The only problem I had was the realization of how much the word "faggot" gets used. You would think that people were past that now. I guess a lot are a little slow to catch up with not judging and actually being nice to people who are different than yourself.
Anyway, I enjoyed it. I probably won't read it again, but 3 stars nonetheless.
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