Kevin Roose was A.J. Jacob's intern/lackey during the time he was researching and writing 
 The Year of Living Biblically 
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 I had pretty high expectations - if you're hanging around A.J. Jacobs, hopefully you're absorbing some good know-how, especially around writing a book. 
 I was not disappointed. 
 For being 19 years old when he researched his book and started writing, Roose delivers an engaging and delightful story. He, a typical liberal college student attending Brown University, decides to spend a "semester abroad" at Liberty University - the school founded by conservative Jerry Falwell. 
 This could have been a liberal screed. It could have become a total "we're all different, let's celebrate the differences" namby-pamby apologia. It was neither of those things. Roose wrote a really good, story-rich, and self-aware account of his semester there. You like some of the people he meets. You are creeped out by some of the people he meets. You empathize (up to a point) with a lot of his classmates and professors. 
 But he includes a lot of the "bad stuff" (to me as a liberal). The rampant homophobia. The lack of science. The lack of unexamined lives. 
 Some of the reviewers have slammed this book saying that Roose didn't discover anything unexpected - that "surprise, surprise - there are good people and jerky people at a Christian school." But that wasn't what I expected Roose to reveal. Sure, you can reduce the book to that simple statement but that ignores the nuance and excellent story-telling of this book. 
 You can tell that Roose really learned a lot from AJ. Good on him. I liked this book a lot and whole-heartedly recommend it. I'm looking forward to his next book - about millennials who go to Wall Street to strike it rich.