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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
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bookshelves: genre-comedy, myth-folktale-fable, wordsmith, favorite, z-christopher-moore, want-to-own, genre-fantasy, 2002
Dec 09, 2014
bookshelves: genre-comedy, myth-folktale-fable, wordsmith, favorite, z-christopher-moore, want-to-own, genre-fantasy, 2002
One of the funniest books I've ever read!
This book brought me to the brilliance of Christopher Moore. I have read all his books save his latest. He always entertains me. This is his books book to date. I simply love it.
This is about Biff, Jesus's best friend growing up. He is an earthy, live life to the fullest type of guy who loves sex. One of the funniest scenes is Jesus was asking Biff about sinning, he was having sex. Biff was like, it feels great, etc. Jesus spends the 15 years between his childhood and when he was 30 and started his ministry going to China and studying with the Buddha where he learned much of what he took back to preach to the Jews.
There is a great scene when Jesus and Biff are in Tibet and Biff is freezing and I love how he moves the monks around. Jesus is bright eyed and innocent while Biff is worldy and knows the secrets of the flesh.
All these stories intertwine into the stories of the bible and Christopher squeezes out all the funny from these situations. If you need a book to make you laugh, this is the book for you as long as you can accept a little irreverence with these well known scriptures.
This book brought me to the brilliance of Christopher Moore. I have read all his books save his latest. He always entertains me. This is his books book to date. I simply love it.
This is about Biff, Jesus's best friend growing up. He is an earthy, live life to the fullest type of guy who loves sex. One of the funniest scenes is Jesus was asking Biff about sinning, he was having sex. Biff was like, it feels great, etc. Jesus spends the 15 years between his childhood and when he was 30 and started his ministry going to China and studying with the Buddha where he learned much of what he took back to preach to the Jews.
There is a great scene when Jesus and Biff are in Tibet and Biff is freezing and I love how he moves the monks around. Jesus is bright eyed and innocent while Biff is worldy and knows the secrets of the flesh.
All these stories intertwine into the stories of the bible and Christopher squeezes out all the funny from these situations. If you need a book to make you laugh, this is the book for you as long as you can accept a little irreverence with these well known scriptures.
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Reading Progress
Started Reading
February 22, 2004
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Finished Reading
December 9, 2014
– Shelved
October 12, 2015
– Shelved as:
genre-comedy
October 12, 2015
– Shelved as:
myth-folktale-fable
October 12, 2015
– Shelved as:
wordsmith
November 5, 2015
– Shelved as:
favorite
June 14, 2017
– Shelved as:
z-christopher-moore
June 21, 2017
– Shelved as:
want-to-own
August 31, 2017
– Shelved as:
genre-fantasy
January 21, 2019
– Shelved as:
2002
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Dec 08, 2020 05:29AM
How much does Moore's covers play a part in wanting to read him? I've seen covers I've hated and can't even start them. Others I fly through.
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Raven wrote: "How much does Moore's covers play a part in wanting to read him? I've seen covers I've hated and can't even start them. Others I fly through."Hmm, Raven, not sure. His covers are colorful and some of them are fun like his Pocket series, but his older ones are rather simple and colorful. I've never thought them bad. His latest is great.
