I didn't really get this from the library. A friend loaned it to my wife, she read it, and then I read it. Now it's on the way back to said friend.

I'm glad I didn't pay any money for it, but it's an okay read when you're not paying anything. My main complaint is this: many of the arguments by the various writers aren't very good. Some make no sense. Some are contradictory. Some are plain wrong.

An example: In discussing Rick Warren's Purpose-Driven Life, the author contends that Moses didn't receive his life's purpose on Mt. Siani (as Warren claims), because Moses already got that from God via the burning bush. But that's not right. Moses got his first purpose at the burning bush - to free the Jews from Egyptian slavery. On Mt. Siani, God gave Moses another purpose: lawgiver.

Such shoddy reasoning is rife throughout the book, to the extent that even though I agreed with the author's overall contention, I disagreed with most the reasons supporting the contention.

A few chapters were better argued, and those were among the most enjoyable. But there weren't enough of them to give this a higher rating.