Good Book : The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible

from dchaikin

50. Good Book : The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible by David Plotz (2009, 322 pages, read Nov 9-27) The next book in my prep for starting the Bible in January. This is chapter by chapter summary of the Hebrew Bib...

from manatree

Wasn't bad, wasn't great. Would have been better if the author didn't fancy himself to be a comedian. Too many of his jokes were forced at best. Would have been funnier if he wasn't trying so hard. However, it did make me want to go back and re-read the Good Book cover to cover, something that I ...

from bendersgame

David Plotz described himself as a proud, if unobservant Jew. He had his curiosity piqued by the macabre story of Dinah and so set out to read the entire Old Testament. Plotz does what he sets out to do which is to create a journal of an amateur reader of scripture.

from bendersgame

David Plotz described himself as a proud, if unobservant Jew. He had his curiosity piqued by the macabre story of Dinah and so set out to read the entire Old Testament. Plotz does what he sets out to do which is to create a journal of an amateur reader of scripture.

from jjvors

Alternately amusing, insightful, and frustrating, this book by David Plotz, editor of Slate emagazine recounts his impressions as he read through the Bible for the first time, as an adult. Plotz, a non-observant Jew, read just the Old Testment, but had plenty of comments good and bad on God and t...