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A.J. Jacobs
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The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
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2007
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64 editions
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The Know-It-All
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2004
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40 editions
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Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection
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2012
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The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
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2009
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34 editions
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It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree
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2017
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13 editions
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The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life
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2022
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9 editions
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Thanks a Thousand: A Gratitude Journey
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2018
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12 editions
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The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning
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2024
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5 editions
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Fractured Fairy Tales
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1997
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9 editions
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Esquire Presents: What It Feels Like
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2003
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9 editions
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As I write this, I have a beard that makes me resemble Moses. Or Abe Lincoln. Or Ted Kaczynski. I’ve been called all three.
I loved writing this book. Well, not the actual writing part. I don’t enjoy sitting alone in front of a laptop with just the sounds of the clicking keyboard to keep me company. I find it isolating and painful. But I loved researching and living and talking about this book. I loved meeting Amish people and Hasidic Jews, I loved diving deep into 2,000 year old texts, and I loved growing a beard (even if my wife hated it; apologies to Julie)
Years later, the project continues to have a huge effect on me in dozens of ways. I’m more grateful. I’ve learned to appreciate the beauty of rituals and
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I got an unexpected email today. It arrived in my in-box at 1:07 p.m. from a guy named Kevin Roose.
I’m still friends with my former intern and biblical bread-baker, Kevin Roose. And he has had quite a journey since this book! While he was working for me, I took Kevin on my trip to Jerry Falwell’s church in Virginia. Kevin found it fascinating. On the way back to New York, Kevin said he had a book idea: What if he transferred from Brown, where he was a sophomore, to Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University for a semester. In other words, go from one of the most liberal universities to one of the most conservative. And he figured he could write a book with the theme, ‘my semester abroad in the
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Julie ordered me Charlton Heston’s The Ten Commandments on Netflix. Man, I hadn’t remembered it being quite so gloriously cheesy as it is.
A few years ago, CBS made a sitcom inspired by “The Year of Living Biblically.” It was called “Living Biblically” and it lasted thirteen episodes. In the biblical spirit, I can say I’m grateful for the amazing experience. It was a blast to go and meet the cast and crew and nosh on craft services all day. I should also say that the writers and actors were immensely talented and funny. That said, I did not like the show itself. I tried to make the book as nuanced as possible, showing the benefits and perils of religion and interpreting the Bible. On a 22-minute sitcom, there is little room for
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As I write this, I have a beard that makes me resemble Moses. Or Abe Lincoln. Or Ted Kaczynski. I’ve been called all three.
I loved writing this book. Well, not the actual writing part. I don’t enjoy sitting alone in front of a laptop with just the sounds of the clicking keyboard to keep me company. I find it isolating and painful. But I loved researching and living and talking about this book. I loved meeting Amish people and Hasidic Jews, I loved diving deep into 2,000 year old texts, and I loved growing a beard (even if my wife hated it; apologies to Julie)
Years later, the project continues to have a huge effect on me in dozens of ways. I’m more grateful. I’ve learned to appreciate the beauty of rituals and
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“My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.”
― The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
― The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
“I've started to look at life differently. When you're thanking God for every little you - every meal, every time you wake up, every time you take a sip of water - you can't help but be more thankful for life itself, for the unlikely and miraculous fact that you exist at all.”
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“Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.”
― The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
― The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
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