Lamb - Gatti Ninja

English language

ISBN:: 978-0-7481-1448-1

(2 reviews)

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal is a novel by American writer Christopher Moore, published in 2002. In this work the author seeks to fill in the "lost" years of Jesus through the eyes of Jesus' childhood pal, "Levi bar Alphaeus who is called Biff".The original edition of Lamb was issued in hardback and paperback and contains an afterword by the author explaining some background of the novel. In 2007 a special gift edition was published, with a second afterword by Moore, recollecting his trip to Israel for research. According to the author, the producer-director Peter Douglas (with Vincent Pictures) optioned the film rights to the novel.

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Alex reviewed Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

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4 stars

I recently hung out with Christopher Moore for about the better part of an hour and he was genuinely one of the funniest human beings I've ever been around. But I'd never read any of his books. So, recently, I picked up Lamb at an airport bookstore (Milwaukee's airport has a GREAT bookstore) and read it over a trip to New Orleans. The premise is described all over this page, so I won't regurgitate it here. I'll just say that this isn't the kind of book that I read typically—though I'm not sure why. I seem to have forgotten that reading can be fun. I like that Moore takes fun very seriously, behind his goofy characters and scenarios is some very serious research. Anyway, I liked it. I will say that there were—to me anyway—some cringeworthy moments.

Heather

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Nov. 5, 2012