It pains me to give this a poor review. I am an A.J. Jacobs fan from The Know it All and from Drop Dead Healthy (lesser from My Life as An Experiment).
Disclaimer: I am not a religious person, I bought this because I am a fan of Jacobs. This book meandered all over the place and despite his sense of humour I found it pretty dull and in many parts irritating.
Four takeaways that bothered me:
1. Like many who say they are going to "live biblically", picking and chosing passages that work for them and ignoring anything that they don't want to do...drives me insane.
2. The chicken incident, that's all I'm saying.
3. Thanks for the big Anna Karenina spoiler, some of us haven't read it yet!
4. There is a comment following his visit to a church based youth group that said something like "you rarely see atheist youth groups". This irritated me as it assumes only youth in religious affiliation gather together to do good. Let's just ignore all of the non-denominational youth based groups that do great things on their own...not because they are following the bible or doing what they think is expected of them by a higher power. Same can be said for adult groups of all sorts.
This book just irritated me and his wife is a saint! I should have bailed but I finished it.
Until Next Time
Helene
The Canuck Reader
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