Lamb Special Gift Ed: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Lamb Special Gift Ed: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal | Christopher Moore | Lamb, pure comedy

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	Lamb Special Gift Ed: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal Christopher Moore William Morrow, 2007 - 432 pages average customer review:based on 21 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Possibly the funniest book ever written

Okay, I'm old (over 50) and have been an avid reader all my life, so the number of books I own or which have passed beneath my gaze is way beyond counting. And if one played the old game of "You're on a sinking ship and can grab a handful of books to take with you to that desert island over there where you'll be stuck for who knows how long... what would you take?" then Lamb would definitely be in the handful (others, in case you're interested: Virginia Woolf's "The Waves", Dostoevsky's "Brothers Karamazov", Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" and an anthology of poetry, heavy on the romantics).

I should issue a warning, however, which is that this book is dangerous. If you're someone who doesn't like embarrassing yourself by laughing out loud in public places like subway trains or at boring baseball games, then this isn't the book for you. It's one of those rarities, the book that makes you guffaw whether you want to or not.

I've read most of Moore's work (and have met him a couple of times - he's a very funny guy in person too), and this is easily his best novel. It is hysterically funny at many points, and yet manages to always protect the central character of Joshua (Jesus). Moore treats Joshua with respect throughout. He's never the butt of the many jokes directly; his best friend Biff is always the comic and the fall guy - but oh my, how gloriously he plays that role.

Offhand, and despite my extensive reading experience, I can't think of a funnier book than this one. True, you have to have a somewhat sick sense of humor to fully appreciate it, but those of that persuasion will love it and will find it one of the best reading rides of their lives. Buy it and treat yourself.

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Lamb, pure comedy

So, when I first saw this book, I knew I needed to read it, just from the title. What did I think? I was laughing my face off the first few pages!!! Who wouldn't? The books is through the eyes of rough yet suave young childhood friend, Levi called Biff. Biff accompanies Jesus on his journey to meet the three wisemen and the both learn some interesting stuff. It goes all the way until Jesus' death.
I think a lot of christians themselves are probably freaking out about this book, but remember it is simply fiction, not fact. However, being christian myself, it gave a very explicit message: Jesus was human, too, and experienced just as much temptation as we do today. It made that concept more believable.
The author did research history and culture very well, and you get right into that time frame. You fall in love with Biff immediatley and it's a really light-hearted book. I recommend it to everyone. Just remember it is ficiton, but there is a message that Jesus was just as human as the rest of us-and we can relate to him cuz he went through the same crap we did. Thank God for that and thank God for this book! Go read it!

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Jesus - The Growing Up Years

Like the title suggests, this book is a proposed story to the "missing" years that the Bible doesn't contain. The author attempts to fill in the missing years namely from his birth till about 30 using a lot of humour, some profanities and skills of a novelist to re-create Jesus's growing years.

I have to admit that even though i am not a believer of Christianity, this book does offer a good introduction to the subject; not that its the authority on this subject but its definitely a more gentle one compared to having over-passionate believers coming up to my face asking me to "Repent! Repent! OR Burn in HELLLLllllllll" yeah that's right they particularly emphasize the HELL that it almost made me drive a fist through their face.

But nonetheless, it's a good book and perfectly good read :-)

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A TOTAL HIT!!!

I bought this for my mom for christmas, its her favorite book, and she LOVED that it resembled a bible! Not only was the product itself perfect, but the price was just right for this broke college student and shipping was so fast!!! Bravo!!!

Excellent, light hearted read

Lamb is a great read. Especially in this holiday season when the discussion is (kinda) centered on jesus' life. The book is well written, it isn't very reverential, nor is it disrespectful. Moore does a wonderful job painting a fictional life of Jesus without being presumptuous. I was looking for a fun fictional work and this worked!

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