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Loading... The Good Book: A Humanist Bibleby A. C. Grayling
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. While I appreciated the sentiment and most content, the lack of source citations for the individual writings was frustrating. I tried googling select quotes a number of times with limited success. I would have liked to have easy access to the source material. Also, the length of the histories seemed outsized compared to the other types of writings selected. I realize that this format mimics the bible itself well, but most readers of the bible that I know use bibles with footnotes and cross references. And i shudder to say that I would have liked to see the versification which is available in standard editions of most of the selections. ( ) An interesting experiment, though I'm not sure this does entirely what Grayling wanted to do. Explicitly modeling the design on the typical Biblical style proves more distracting than useful, and the lack of footnotes, while understandable, is unfortunate. Some lovely passages, but I don't think the potential for this very neat idea is met. no reviews | add a review
"...Grayling has distilled the work of hundreds of authors and more than one thousand texts using the same techniques...that produced the holy books of the Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions. Their wit and advice, human stories, tragedies and yearnings, love and consolations are shaped into fourteen constituent parts that recall the Bible in structure: Genesis, Wisdom, Parables, Concord, Lamentations, Consolations, Sages, Songs, Histories, Proverbs, The Lawgiver, Acts, Epistles, and The Good...For a secular age in which many find that religion no longer speaks to them, 'The Good Book' is a literary tour de force..."--Dust jacket. No library descriptions found.
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