Living a “correct” life
can be hard to distinguish because everyone believes something different, and
it’s hard to categorize a lifestyle as good or bad. Yet A.J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s
Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, decides to write
a humorous documentary on his experience of trying to change his lifestyle to
be complimentary to the Bible and try to figure why people have involved
certain morals from the Bible into their own personal life and in today’s
society. His journey doesn’t come easy though because everything that was written
in the times before Christ is difficult and rare to obey in today’s society.
Although he had no experience with any religion, he still researched and
experienced what the Bible commands man to do.
I would rate this book a 4 out of 5. Not only because is
it surprising on how someone living in New York drops his everyday routine to
strictly follow every saying in the Bible and apply it in his personal life and
out in the open, but it’s easy to follow and understand his journey. This book
is not always serious but it contains a lot of astonishing stories that the
author goes through to obtain his goal of living according to the Bible for a
year which makes it more interesting to read. Therefore I believe that this
book is directed to people that are curious on how someone can fully devote
themselves to live by a “history book,” or interested in what the Bible
actually orders people to live like.
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