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

464 sidor

På English

Publicerades 4 februari 2003 av Harper Paperbacks.

ISBN:: 978-0-380-81381-0

The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years -- except Biff, the Messiah's best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely hilarious yet heartfelt work "reminiscent of Vonnegut and Douglas Adams" (Philadelphia Inquirer).Verily, the story Biff has to tell is a miraculous one, filled with remarkable journeys, magic, healings, kung fu, corpse reanimations, demons, and hot babes. Even the considerable wiles and devotion of the Savior's pal may not be enough to divert Joshua from his tragic destiny. But there's no one who loves Josh more -- except maybe "Maggie," Mary of Magdala -- and Biff isn't about to let his extraordinary pal suffer and ascend without a fight.

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Björn recenserade Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal av Christopher Moore

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Fun, respectfully (though occasionally a little to respectfully) irreverent, reasonably clever. If you only want to read one book in which Jesus learns kung fu, I'd recommend this over the shooting script for Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter. I especially like how Moore has, in essence, made Jesus' teachings not the product of some divine inspiration but from, in his own words, "logical and moral conclusions that any person in search of what is right would come to", and having Jesus pick up bits and pieces from Greek philosophy, taoism, buddhism, hinduism and other ideas floating about at the time. And the relationship between Levi, Yeshua and Mary, once you peel back the worst fratboyisms that poor Biff gets stuck with when he's given "the gift of tongues" and then locked up with a dim angel and American TV for his only inspirations, is really nicely done. The rushed ending …

Fun, respectfully (though occasionally a little to respectfully) irreverent, reasonably clever. If you only want to read one book in which Jesus learns kung fu, I'd recommend this over the shooting script for Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter. I especially like how Moore has, in essence, made Jesus' teachings not the product of some divine inspiration but from, in his own words, "logical and moral conclusions that any person in search of what is right would come to", and having Jesus pick up bits and pieces from Greek philosophy, taoism, buddhism, hinduism and other ideas floating about at the time. And the relationship between Levi, Yeshua and Mary, once you peel back the worst fratboyisms that poor Biff gets stuck with when he's given "the gift of tongues" and then locked up with a dim angel and American TV for his only inspirations, is really nicely done. The rushed ending lets it down, though.

All in all, not my favourite Bible rewrite, but ... fun.

Ämnen

Jesus Christ -- Fiction.
Jesus Christ -- Friends and associates -- Fiction.
Bible. N.T. Gospels -- History of Biblical events -- Fiction.