The Street-Legal Version of Mormon's Book

The Street-Legal Version of Mormon's Book
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Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages : 504
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ISBN-10 : 1477615830
ISBN-13 : 9781477615836
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Book Synopsis The Street-Legal Version of Mormon's Book by : Michael Hicks

Download or read book The Street-Legal Version of Mormon's Book written by Michael Hicks and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not a "simplified" version of the Book of Mormon, but a completely rewritten paraphrase, with a contemporary voice hovering somewhere in the realm of J. D. Salinger, Hunter Thompson, and some generic humanist academic/poet, i.e., me. An affectionate, meditational dramatization and commentary. From the Introduction: "Why 'street-legal'? That's a term we use for souped-up cars—streamlined and powerfully efficient but also decorative, with decals, pinstriping, and tricked-out doodads—that still can be ridden in normal lanes of traffic. They're not cars meant for everyday errands, to be sure. Offroad is their normal habitat. But the only thing they usually lack to be 'normal' is a better muffler. This paraphrase of the Book of Mormon is like that. I've streamlined a lot of passages, put them in terse, up-to-date vernacular, thinking that's what one would have done if one were scratching the book out on metal plates. I've tried to muscle up the prose. But I've also added lots of linguistic decals: digressions, snippets of commentary, queries, and even humor, which the original editor, Mormon, apparently cut."


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