{"id":5021,"date":"2010-03-10T15:47:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T20:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2025-07-30T16:33:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:33:48","slug":"read-an-ebook-week-the-fob-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/read-an-ebook-week-the-fob-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Read an eBook Week: The Fob Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m totally not paying attention to the world around me lately. Didn\u2019t have a clue about Read an eBook Week (missed it last year), and apparently jumped the gun with my giveaway.<\/p>\n<div class=\"floatright00\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/b10mediaworx.com\/covers\/fob\/fob-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"The cover of The Fob Bible\"><\/div>\n<p>BUT I still have something to give you. Peculiar Pages, an imprint of B10 Mediaworx, is giving away <em>The Fob Bible<\/em> (PDF only for now, but crap, it\u2019s 76MB of heavily illustrated awesomeness!) this week.<\/p>\n<p>What is <em>The Fob Bible<\/em>,<sup class='footnote' id='fnref-5021-1'><a href='#fn-5021-1' rel='footnote'>1<\/a><\/sup> you ask?<\/p>\n<p>Reviewer Jeffrey Needle describes<sup class='footnote' id='fnref-5021-2'><a href='#fn-5021-2' rel='footnote'>2<\/a><\/sup> it thusly:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"normal\"><p>Part Bible, part midrash, part send-up [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>But make no mistake, by and large, this book is a delight from beginning to end. There are smiles and smirks, but there are also deeply insightful ponderings on things previously considered too holy to study too closely.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s something for everyone here: poetry, prose, play-writing, and even some e-mails (it\u2019s not clear from my reading of the Bible that the patriarchs and prophets had access to the Internet, though this would explain quite a bit\u2026). There\u2019s pity and pathos, humor and hubris [\u2026]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trust me, you want this. Ain\u2019t a speck of preachin\u2019 going on, neither.<\/p>\n<div class=\"footnotes\">\n<p>______________________________<\/p>\n<p class=\"footnote\"><span class='footnote' id='fn-5021-1'><a href='#fnref-5021-1'>1<\/a>.<\/span>&nbsp;&nbsp;Fob stands for \u201cFriends of Ben.\u201d Yeah, they knew what\u2019d it look like when they did it. They\u2019re perverted that way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"footnote\"><span class='footnote' id='fn-5021-2'><a href='#fnref-5021-2'>2<\/a>.<\/span>&nbsp;&nbsp;2025-07-24 \u2013 I was in charge of the website where he posted this review and I had to nuke it because reasons. I do have the raw, unaltered database files and can produce it on demand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m totally not paying attention to the world around me lately. Didn\u2019t have a clue about Read an eBook Week (missed it last year), and apparently jumped the gun with my giveaway. BUT I still have something to give you. Peculiar Pages, an imprint of B10 Mediaworx, is giving away The Fob Bible (PDF only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,317,94,526],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peculiar-pages","category-philosophy","category-religion","category-reviews-mojo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5021"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16750,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions\/16750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}