![]() ![]() ![]() Offhand, and despite my extensive reading experience, I can't think of a funnier book than this one. He's never the butt of the many jokes directly his best friend Biff is always the comic and the fall guy - but oh my, how gloriously he plays that role. Moore treats Joshua with respect throughout. It is hysterically funny at many points, and yet manages to always protect the central character of Joshua (Jesus). I've read most of Moore's work (and have met him a couple of times - he's a very funny guy in person too), and this is easily his best novel. It's one of those rarities, the book that makes you guffaw whether you want to or not. If you're someone who doesn't like embarrassing yourself by laughing out loud in public places like subway trains or at boring baseball games, then this isn't the book for you. I should issue a warning, however, which is that this book is dangerous. what would you take?" then Lamb would definitely be in the handful (others, in case you're interested: Virginia Woolf's "The Waves", Dostoevsky's "Brothers Karamazov", Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" and an anthology of poetry, heavy on the romantics). And if one played the old game of "You're on a sinking ship and can grab a handful of books to take with you to that desert island over there where you'll be stuck for who knows how long. Okay, I'm old (over 50) and have been an avid reader all my life, so the number of books I own or which have passed beneath my gaze is way beyond counting. ![]()
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