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Moore excels at his social satire gouging every religious culture and accomplishes the task of separating the wheat from the tares in religious thought. The book is ostensibly a new gospel by Christ's pal Biff who is resurrected two thousand years later to write his version of the gospel. The book excels in the areas where Josh (Jesus) and Biff traipse across the East for the untold years of Christ's life from 12 to 30. When it was tied into the Biblical narrative it slowed for me, but all and a
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What's wonderful about this one is the deft and surprising way that Moore gives his potentially blasphemous story a great sensitivity and humanity, and his humor prompts much genuine laughter along the way.
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I absolutely loved this book. It's totally hilarious. I found myself laughing out loud through much of it.
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fun! right up there with A Confederacy of Dunces
Oct 08, 2009
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