The Year of Living Biblically - A.J. Jacobs

"The year of living biblically" is one of a new breed of books that I think might best be described as "quest books". Unlike the traditional approach to authorship where a writer pens a book based on something they have already done, the quest book is sold on a proposition of something that he (and it is invariably a he) will do. Ideally, this has to be something nobody has ever done before, and better still, should be something they would only do if they could then sell a book based on the fact they have done it. The works of Dave Gorman and Danny Wallace are prime examples of this genre, for instance. Normally, they are not the sort of thing that I ...  Read the complete review