An overall commentary, first 40 pages

OK, first 40 pages or so done, only 1380 more pages to go. I'm reeeally loving this book! You want to know all the fun you've missed so far? Do you really want to? Let me tell you:

-Family trees! (They only mention sons, not daugters.)

- Telling what age people died in! (I've noticed that before the Flood people used to live nine hundred years or so, and after that, only one or tho hundred years. Now what's the meaning of that? Did God just think that people were so selfish and horrible that they shouldn't be living that long, or was it simply because after the Flood the Earth wasn't so paradise like anymore and getting proper food got much harder? OR, was it because after the Flood God gave man a permission to eat meat as well, and a healthy vegan diet was forgotten?)

(By the way, who wrote these books anyway(books of Moses)? Was it Moses? Moses who? Or has there been several people writing them?)

-Describing Abraham's and his kinsmen's lives! (X married his cousin Y, they got three kids, they got four kids, they married their cousins, argued with the local monarchs etc etc...you could get a soap opera out of this)

-And...you'll never quess...naming places! (Every friggin' pond and puddle must be named...)

And the bottom line all time is repetition. Repetition, repetition, repetition. Every single thing is told like three different times, sometimes even with the exact same words. Now THAT's fun! Back then the people didn't obviously have a hunch about novel writing, but hey, who cares?

I hope you've picked it up by now, that I really didn't mean it when I said I loved this book. So far, it's been downright boring. I really do hope it doesn't continue like this for long, because if it does, I will most likely eat my own eyes so I wouldn't have to read anymore...

Your,
Calima elen

PS. If someone doesn't know what I meant by that Flood, it's that big Flood, in which only Noah and his family were saved...if you want to look it up from the Bible: Moses 1, chapter 6 ->