Lamb: the book you should read.

Right, so, Lamb: has the potential to be highly offensive to some (sex, language, some more language, and --oh no!-- Jesus learning to meditate, levitate, and multiply grains of rice with some yogis in the east somewhere). Plus, Jesus comes across as a human being trying to do the best he can through the narration of Biff, who is a class-A jerk who happens to have invented judo (jew-do, get it?). This is not a book for the faint of heart. Anyway, it's funny. Christopher Moore fills in those early years of Jesus' life with travels throughout the world and encounters with other religions. Then in the last section of the book, he recaps the Gospels. Moore tries to keep the light touch throughout, but he does a really interesting job of telling the story of Jesus' ministry and his death from a slightly more coherent narrative style than, say, Matthew, Mark, and John. The whole book raises some interesting questions about what we're willing to tolerate in a savior, how human we want him to be, and how much imagination we're willing to use to understand the story. Anyway, it's fabulous. Come discuss with us! You can read the author's note about it here.