I'm finally (12 yrs late) getting around to reading AJ Jacobs' "A Year Of Living Biblically." Honestly, halfway thru, insee him growing as a person, but I'm not sure I really like this book. Primarily I have a problem with the default assumption that literal = biblical.

I know literalism makes for some funny moments in the book, and thus its marketability, but sometimes it feels cheap.

Also, while I appreciate the ways he's throwing himself into this, I also feel like people give their whole lives to studying and living this text and Jacobs is gonna love what they really mean in 1 yr of study?

Again, fun idea. Funny storytelling. Worth reading, even, to see what "secular" people really think about the Bible.

But sometimes it's too easy.

I'm glad it's not all cynicism otherwise I'd stop reading. I at least appreciate how he's seeing the beauty in some of this.

I'll say this - I'm much more interested in reading his prior work "the know it all."