My Adventures with God Audiobook (Free)

A delightful collection from legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky-who currently appears in the Goldbergs, HBO’s Silicon Valley, as well as the serial podcast The Tobolowsky Documents- “a series of true stories that wrestle using a big idea: how belief styles our lives. Crazy, smart, and shifting, this is an excellent accounts of our relationship using the unknowable” (Susan Orlean, NY Times bestselling writer of The Orchid Thief and Rin Tin Tin).

In My Journeys with God, Stephen Tobolowsky about My Ventures with God explores the theory that most people’s lives appear to match the template of the Aged Testament. We all have effective creation myths: stories of our years as a child and family, our first battles won and lost. It is our Genesis. After that, like in the Publication of Exodus, we get into slavery. Rather than building pyramids, we get rid of ourselves in fear and ambition-in first loves, first jobs, too many dreams blended with too much beer. We ultimately become free, and then wander in the wilderness. Sooner or later we quit and proclaim to the world who we are. That is our Leviticus minute. We reconcile what we thought we would be using what we have become. We frequently attempt a mid-course correction. After that, as with the Book of Amounts, we are formed by mortality once we bear the loss of family and friends. Finally, we retell our stories to our children hoping to create sense from the trip, like Moses did in Deuteronomy.

Tobolowsky’s stories tell of a boy growing up in the wilds of Texas, finding and losing love, losing and finding himself-all told through the prism of the Torah and Talmud, mixed with insights from science, and refined through a child’s sense of question. My Adventures with God is usually a “fast-paced, exact, wide-ranging, and impressive book draws within the I Ching, Talmud, Einstein, Grimms’ Fairy Stories, and reruns of SportsCenter to make counterpoints when talking about his life of faith. This is a well-told, must-read…for anyone thinking about a comedic experience using the divine” (Web publishers Weekly).