Book 31 - Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, by Christopher Moore
I'm really kind of sorry that I've been so late to the game in discovering Christopher Moore. I started out by reading his most recent book, The Stupidest Angel, over the Christmas holidays as I was kind of looking for a story that was appropriate to the season. After completing it, I was won over and decided that I should try to pick up a couple of his other works, and I'm sure glad I did. Lamb is a satirical look at what happened during the life of Jesus Christ *before* the years that are primarily covered in the gospels. Naturally, the story is told by Jesus's best friend Levi who is called Biff. The two grow up together as children, head out in search of truth when Jesus (or Joshua as he is called in the book) decides that he doesn't know how to be Christ. In their journeys, they visit the three wise men who had attended Joshua's birth - one of them a mystic magician well-versed in the ways of the Chinese, one a Buddhist monk, and the other a minimalist hermit of sorts. The book is funny and probably sacrilegious, but if a person is so shaky as to let a story like this rattle their faith, they might be in trouble anyway. Moore's writing reminds me of Carl Hiassen, one of my favorite writers, and while I wouldn't say he's been perfectly consistent so far, I've really enjoyed both his books. For some reason, his portrayal of angels as some of the stupidest beings ever really tickles me.
On a wholly separate note, Bruce Campbell's new book Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way hits stores today. Go buy it. You know you want to.
I'm really kind of sorry that I've been so late to the game in discovering Christopher Moore. I started out by reading his most recent book, The Stupidest Angel, over the Christmas holidays as I was kind of looking for a story that was appropriate to the season. After completing it, I was won over and decided that I should try to pick up a couple of his other works, and I'm sure glad I did. Lamb is a satirical look at what happened during the life of Jesus Christ *before* the years that are primarily covered in the gospels. Naturally, the story is told by Jesus's best friend Levi who is called Biff. The two grow up together as children, head out in search of truth when Jesus (or Joshua as he is called in the book) decides that he doesn't know how to be Christ. In their journeys, they visit the three wise men who had attended Joshua's birth - one of them a mystic magician well-versed in the ways of the Chinese, one a Buddhist monk, and the other a minimalist hermit of sorts. The book is funny and probably sacrilegious, but if a person is so shaky as to let a story like this rattle their faith, they might be in trouble anyway. Moore's writing reminds me of Carl Hiassen, one of my favorite writers, and while I wouldn't say he's been perfectly consistent so far, I've really enjoyed both his books. For some reason, his portrayal of angels as some of the stupidest beings ever really tickles me.
On a wholly separate note, Bruce Campbell's new book Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way hits stores today. Go buy it. You know you want to.
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