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Rent Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published: Feb 2003
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Retail Price: $18.99
Pages: 416
Synopsis
An audacious and irreverent novel...guaranteed deeply to offend all right-thinking Christians....The style is a bizarre mix of serious and sometimes brutal historical fiction laced with black humor, wordplay, in-jokes, and sharp one-liners worthy of a good stand-up comedian.
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Reviews
Moore's books are like sipping helium -- they make the simplest things funny and the burden of life lighter for just a little while. Raised as a Catholic, I thought the many paradoxes and eccentricities of the Bible would shine with a good-humored light in this book. And so they do. What I wasn't expecting was that along with the schtick, scatology, the satire would be a deeper interest and sympathy with the story itself. Moore takes the time to sift out some of the historical details and write a story that, behind the jokes, is a deeply humane consideration of what daily life might have been for Jesus -- and his best friend. As with the musical 'Jesus Christ Superstar', you come away from the telling of Christ's life not with a more superficial but rather a more visceral, thoughtful reaction to the events of that time. The music and the humor work with the plot -- not against it. Highly recommended.
This book is so fun and this is one of the only authors I find myself laughing out loud to when reading any of his books. The only way I can describe this book is: Lamb is to the bible what Wicked is to Wizard of Oz. Fun, fun, fun and very creative. Kudos Mr. Moore! Do yourself a favor and read this book. It's great!