A.J. Jacobs – The Year of Living Biblically

A.J. Jacobs spent a year living the Bible as literally as possible. At first, I thought this book would be a tedious playing of the same musical note over and over (in this case, that note would be a joke about the ridiculousness of trying to follow the Bible literally).

However, I was pleasantly surprised to find there is a constant question, a tension, running throughout the book, which is, “Is this guy going to convert or not?” And so the book actually has a lot to say about the anticipation, and the fear, involved anytime you step off into the unknown, and that it’s that unknown factor that makes a quest worth undertaking.