The Gospel According to Monty Python by Julian Doyle

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Julian Doyle has worked with the Pythons on several things and edited The Life of Brian so his Python cred is pretty high. The parts of this book that I really enjoyed are when he discusses TLoB, scenes that were cut or changed, the making of the film, I loved those bits. I even liked the religious and historical parts where he talks about scenes from the movie and how they picked which religious/historical thing to make fun of. All of that I loved.

The sections I did not like were the many bits where he goes on about the Bible having wrong parts or lies or whatnot in it. I mean, if you want to call shenanigans on the Bible, fine, do that, but do you need to do it in a book about The Life of Brian and stick Monty Python in the title? I just didn’t see the point to those long-winded sections being in a comedy book.

The Life of Brian is hilarious, brilliant satire. This book, aside from the film-making parts, is not that entertaining. I feel like it’s just an atheist (I have no idea if Julian Doyle is atheist or not.) complaining about the Bible, and why would an atheist even care? And if it’s that he cares because so many wars and other social injustices come about because of religion, then write that book.

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