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The Bible [Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, et. al.] (self.4sentencebookreviews)
submitted 3 years ago by GradyHendrix
What starts out as a history of Jewish people turns into a retelling of Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land about halfway through. Then the author suddenly throws out that plotline and it turns into an apocalyptic end-of-the-world thriller without any characters you can care about and no zombies. Main character ("God") not very sympathetic and seems to have no flaws that make him more human. Also: way too much sex and violence in first half.
[–][deleted] 16 points17 points18 points 3 years ago (1 child)
But there are zombies!
Matthew 27:52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
27:53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
[–]chefpaul66 8 points9 points10 points 3 years ago (0 children)
TIL, zombies in the Bible. awesome
[–]cuddlemonkey 3 points4 points5 points 3 years ago (5 children)
Which translation are you reading?
[–]GradyHendrix[S] 4 points5 points6 points 3 years ago (4 children)
It's by someone called "God." I don't know if that's their first or last name or if they only have one name like Madonna.
[–]cuddlemonkey 5 points6 points7 points 3 years ago (3 children)
Ah, an author-self insertion, those are the worst. Still, this guy (we'll just call him by his penname "God," because his apparently his legal name is secret) is notorious for publishing a shitton of editions. Is it the King James, or something newer and crappier?
[–]greqrg 2 points3 points4 points 3 years ago (1 child)
Why is the King James edition the greatest bible?
[–]cuddlemonkey 4 points5 points6 points 3 years ago (0 children)
It was the most popular during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, so most English writers of those periods used/referenced/quoted/alluded to that one. It was also the first English translation worked on by a large team of well educated scholars of various qualifications and backgrounds, so we generally trust it to be as accurate as possible (excepting the known pro-Royal bias, because it was King James who called those scholars together for the explicit purpose of collaborating on a pro-Royal translation of the Bible).
[–]GradyHendrix[S] 1 point2 points3 points 3 years ago (0 children)
I went with the King James version. But, yeah, there's a lot of Mary Sue-ing going on in this thing.
[–]Sackhaarieff 1 point2 points3 points 3 years ago (0 children)
Not to mention the inbreading and Sodom and Gomorrah in general.
[–]Jumile 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago (0 children)
I admit it, this made me laugh aloud. :)
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