RE: The Bible Review
June 28, 2011 at 10:29 am
(This post was last modified: June 28, 2011 at 10:30 am by Rev. Rye.)
Well, I've read another review of the Bible:
http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-holy-bib...ok-review/
And a choice quote from Bertrand Russell:
All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches. Imagine a modern publisher confronted with the Old Testament as a new manuscript submitted to him for the first time. It is not difficult to think what his comments would be, for example, on the genealogists. "Mr. dear sir," he would say, "this chapter lacks pep; you can't expect your reader to be interested in a mere string of proper names of persons about whom you tell him so little. You have begun your story, I will admit, in fine style, and at first I was very favorably impressed, but you have altogether too much wish to tell it all. Pick out the high lights, take out the superfluous matter, and bring me back your manuscript when you have reduced it to a reasonable length."
http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-holy-bib...ok-review/
And a choice quote from Bertrand Russell:
All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches. Imagine a modern publisher confronted with the Old Testament as a new manuscript submitted to him for the first time. It is not difficult to think what his comments would be, for example, on the genealogists. "Mr. dear sir," he would say, "this chapter lacks pep; you can't expect your reader to be interested in a mere string of proper names of persons about whom you tell him so little. You have begun your story, I will admit, in fine style, and at first I was very favorably impressed, but you have altogether too much wish to tell it all. Pick out the high lights, take out the superfluous matter, and bring me back your manuscript when you have reduced it to a reasonable length."
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