Book Review: Good Book

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

Author: David Plotz  

Publication by: HarperCollins e-books

Publication Date: March 3rd 2009

Source:  E-Book owned by Reviewer

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Audience: Anyone with an interest but not for those who are devoutly and religiously lacking a sense of humour

Synopsis

Like many Jews and Christians, David Plotz long assumed he knew what was in the Bible. He read parts of it as a child in Hebrew school, then at-tended a Christian high school where he studied the Old and New Testaments. Many of the highlights stuck with him--Adam and Eve, Cain versus Abel, Jacob versus Esau, Jonah versus whale, forty days and nights, ten plagues and commandments, twelve tribes and apostles, Red Sea walked under, Galilee walked on, bush into fire, rock into water, water into wine. And, of course, he absorbed from all around him other bits of the Bible--from stories he heard in churches and synagogues, in movies and on television, from his parents and teachers. But it wasn't until he picked up a Bible at a cousin's bat mitzvah--and became engrossed and horrified by a lesser-known story in Genesis--that he couldn't put it down.

Teaser Tuesday: The Immortal Highlander, Halfway to the Grave, Good Book

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read 
• Open to a random page 
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page 
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!) 
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

She was sleeping in his arms. Had been for hours, easy as could be. Her face, in repose, was sweet, youthful, innocent, and utterly beautiful to him. He traced a finger down her cheek, studying the subtle, soft planes, wondering at what made beauty.

~ The Immortal Highlander by Karen Marie Moning, pg 111 

"Off so soon, pet? The evening is young" He looked at me with a glint in his eye and a devilish curl to his lips. "Maybe for you, but I'm going home. Go find yourself a nice neck to suck on."

~Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost, pg 101

That’s why this is a story I’m not sure I want to teach my own [son] Jacob. Beneath its surface of filial forgiveness is a deplorable moral: don’t bother treating loved ones right, since the suckers will always forgive you. 

~Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvellous and Inspiring things I learned when I read every single word of the Bible, by David Plotz (50% on Kindle)