Noah Gets Naked

Brilliant, funny spin on some of the famous bible tales. Perfect for someone who likes their biblical satire.

This quick little read tells a few odd Bible stories in a humorous way. You don’t need to be familiar with religion to read it – in fact, it might be a good thing if you’re not!
Despite officially being Catholic, I know next to nothing about Christianity. My parents were determined for me to NOT attend Christian schools (my father went to one with a notorious paedophile, and my mother faced outright racism), so – being ignorant about most things Bible-related – I learnt a thing or two from this book!
The kind of book you give as a joke present.

I've read or heard these stores many times before, but have never read them quite as humorously as they are written here! I started to read this at work but had to give it up and finish it was home as I was about ready to explode with laughter! Funny stories from the Bible and all true! I think even die hard Christians should get a good laugh out of these tales! Kudos Xanna Chown!

Noah Gets Naked: Bible Stories They Didn't Teach You At Sunday School (Bad Bible Stories)
by Xanna Eve Chown
This is a book I requested NetGalley and the review is voluntary.
I grew up as a kid learning Bible stories then learning stories on my own. I read these on my own and this, among other things, helped me leave religion. This book buys stories in everyday language. It might be quite eye opening for some, lol! Loved it!

The author created some amusing anecdotes in this entertaining storyline with Bible stories as they've never been told before. More than likely, they won't be heard in a Sunday sermon. If you're ready for a laugh all in good humor, this is the book for you.

I offer my gratitude to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for this ARC exchange for an unbiased review.

This is a short book of some strange and obscure Old Testament stories. Some funny and interesting topics include: Noah getting naked after drinking too much wine, God giving a donkey the power of speech (temporarily), Moses viewing God’s behind, Ezekiel having to eat food cooked over flaming poop for 390 days and more oddities.

Each anecdote was laid out with reference to the text, some proper context, and a bit of a moral to the story. The moral is usually: do what God and his angels tell you, don’t doubt them or go against them, or you and your ancestors will be punished for all eternity.
I liked these stories and found them pretty interesting. Some are dark so I wouldn’t recommend to young readers. It was a good, quick read.

Thank you NetGalley for a complimentary copy in exchange for my honest review.

I think maybe I should have chosen this in a different format so I could see the original format of the book - but I sent it to my Kindle, and only read the text. I think the original format may have made it funnier.

As it was, I kept thinking, why was this so short? I think that the stories could have been expanded upon to great effect. For example, in the story Hanging by His Hair, Absalom dies only after he finds out his brother raped his sister, so he has his brother killed. But I think the format is more of a children’s book - so I guess the shorter stories fit.

Being the Bible scholar that I am (he said, only slightly facetiously) I was actually familiar with most of these crazy stories.

What’s most interesting about these stories, is that you can see that this is often how people actually read them - in a simplistic way to pull overly simplistic morals out of them. For example, in just the first two stories - out of Noah Gets Naked, people have pulled out “This is why God hates black people” and out of The Salty Wife, people have pulled out “This is why God hates gay people.” <i><b>Crazy!!</b></i> (In the first, people said that African Americans came from Canaan, they were cursed, and that’s why it was okay to own them as slaves. IKR? WTF is wrong with people? Of course, the second has been used for a long time to indicate God actually destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah simply because everyone was gay and perverted. God, people can be stupid.)

<i>Thanks to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for a copy in return for an honest review.</i>