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The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years -- except Biff, the Messiah's best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely hilarious yet heartfelt work "reminiscent of Vonnegut and Douglas Adams" (Philadelphia Inquirer).Verily, the story Biff has to tell is a miraculous one, filled with remarkable journeys, magic, healings, kung fu, corpse reanimations, demons, and hot babes. Even the considerable wiles and devotion of the Savior's pal may not be enough to divert Joshua from his tragic destiny. But there's no one who loves Josh more -- except maybe "Maggie," Mary of Magdala -- and Biff isn't about to let his extraordinary pal suffer and ascend without a fight.
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With the exception of my constant dread of what happens at the end, I enjoyed reading this. It was funny and sweet. Not exactly laugh-out-loud funny, but funny. Probably funnier if the reader knows more of the details on the Gospels than I do. But it seemed a reasonable telling of the missing years of Christ's story.
The first two-thirds of it was decent, but I gave up partway through the last third when it was just a rehash of all the bible stories with some extra stuff thrown in because it got boring.
I gave it 66 pages, and it just didn't work for me. Moving on.
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