The Good Book

I just finished a good book by AJ Jacobs. The book is called "The Year of Living Biblically." It's an attempt by the author to live an entire year through the moral lens and written rules of the bible.

It's real and it's funny. It's funny because Jacobs is self-deprecating. It's real because he exposes himself and the reader to perhaps every religious denomination across the country and and goes into each of these interactions with an open mind and learns from every person and every experience.

Here's the overview Wikipedia: "He relates a year he spent trying to follow all the rules and guidelines he could find in the Bible, which turned out to be more than 700. For the first nine months, from August to May, he followed the rules in the Old Testament and immersed himself in Jewish culture before focusing on Christianity and the New Testament in the final three months. In the book, Jacobs confronts a majority of the biblical rules, both the obscure and the well-known, and tries to follow them as literally as possible."

I also recently checked out Jacob's Wikipedia page and realized that he was the guy who wrote a funny article for Esquire (he's the editor at large) on outsourcing his life to India.

Check out the book, it's a good one, and while you're at it, read his other stuff.