GQ magazine calls Bible 'foolish,' lists it among books 'you don't have to read'

The Bible's been around for centuries, but GQ magazine is like, eh? What's so great about it?

The Good Book makes the mag's list of "21 Books You Don't Have to Read." While allowing "there are some good parts," the post calls the Bible "repetitive, self-contradictory, sententious, foolish and even at times ill-intentioned."

Instead, GQ suggests, how about "The Notebook" by Agota Kristof? It's billed as "a marvelous tale of two brothers who have to get along when things get rough."

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The Bible finds itself in the company of works by J.D. Salinger, Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway on the list of books that GQ is just not that into. “Catcher in the Rye” is dinged as being “without any literary merit whatsoever.” “Huckleberry Finn” is tedious, meandering and hamfisted, GQ says. Hemingway’s sentences? Too short. Even Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” makes the roster of books to skip.

Here's the entire list, which includes contributions by various writers.

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