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Ladies And Gentlemen, The Bible! (2009)

by Jonathan Goldstein(Favorite Author)

3.36 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1594483671 (ISBN13: 9781594483677)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Riverhead Trade

review 1: Read this as part of a church group. It fostered good discussion in small groups and made more interested in the stories of the Old Testament that I hadn't studied much since Sunday School. It was nice to go back and see God's love revealed over time in the Old Testament. While often witty, and the Biblical characters were given modern personality quirks and motivations, each short story seemed to lacking as compared to the previous. The first stories are such different character analyses of the first books of the Bible that as the format continues, it gets a little old and gimmicky by the time the book is finished.
review 2: Eh. Like the idea of short stories cast as humorous modern retellings of the Bible, but there’s not enough creative spin to add some le... morevel of originality and insight to these well-known tales to make this book a worthwhile read. It’s cute and funny, but I wanted more and wish that, mixed with that humor, Mr. Goldstein had kept some of the deeper meaning of these stories. There is, after all, a reason they are well known – even if, on the face of things, the plots are a bit ridiculous. Not recommended. less

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