Holy Bible - Best God Damned Version - Genesis: For atheists, agnostics, and fans of religious stupidity

First off, I loved it. The conversational style of the author lends itself well to the subject matter, it’s hilarious in parts, mostly bonkers and actually gives a very faithful representation of the source material. The reason I say not to buy it is as soon as you get to the end of the book you’ll want to buy the next book to see what happens next, as indeed did I, and when you do you’ll discover that the next book, The Book of Moses, contains this book in its entirety. So unless you actually want 2 copies of Genesis, I would just buy the slightly more expensive but better value and much longer Best Goddam Book of Moses.Can’t wait till the author does The New Testament though, hopefully one day he’ll release a complement Old and New Testament in one volume.

Absorbing and interesting interpretations of the bible fables explained in detail for what they are, stories for the gullible and easily led misogynistic sheep herders of bygone days who had heard of Moabites and Philstines and Samaritans but not the Greeks, well not yet anyway. Creationist beware, spoiler alert.

There is a lot of talk about critical, unbiased approaches to the Bible which never amounts to real criticism in the ordinary sense of the word. Not with this author. He criticises when he sees disorder, dishonesty and despicable actions by highly revered heroes of the faiths and of the Judaeo-christian tradition and this includes the god-character. My only criticism is his language, a lot of swearing, and the americanism, which could severely impact on the audience and the book's influence, but I forgive this accepting that it is a device and part of his honest criticism to show the text no favour, by being deliberately irreverend. It also makes the narrative highly humorous and entertaining. As a former minister if religion, theologian and critical scholar, I appreciated this no-nonsense approach and also the author's knowledge of Source Theory amongst others.

Im an atheist but like resding a variety of religious and religion related books. This is the first one that has ever made me laugh out loud throughout. I tried reading the old testament years ago but got bored wifh all the begats and stupidity of it so I have no idea of the accuracy of this book but the way its written us just brilliant and makes no excuses for thd ridiculousness of the stories. Never done a review from my kindle and must sat the keyboard is too small - nit sure what that has to do with the review byt sometimes you just have to go with the flow.

Very good but much too short. I was just settling in looking forward to more hilarious fun when it ended. If it had continued to be 3 times longer it would have got 5 stars and I would have probably cracked a rib laughing.

The author pulls apart the bible with amusing well written humour. He's not nitpicking either. Some of the contradictions are pretty major and the all out weirdness of the bible sounds even more ridiculous when read with a modern twist. All in all quite funny. Bit short but for £2 who cares

Fantastic book. It's just staggering how ridiculous the bible stories are when analysed like this. The 'god' or 'gods' described are childish, vengeful, petulant and just downright obscenely cruel. Fascinating stuff but frightening to think people actually base their principals and life around a book of ridiculous cartoons.

A a funny and thought provoking book but definitely not for the politically correct.