God Is Dead by Ron Currie Jr
Blurb for the back cover:
"There is a lack of closer"
Keeping with my theme of religious fiction/satire, I finally got around to reading God Is Dead by Ron Currie Jr. Oddly enough, I was anticipating this book before it was released and somehow I managed to overlook it every time I went to the bookstore. Now that it is newly released in paperback (even though I still picked up a hardbound), I am sad that I waited so long to read this book.
The premise for the book is the God took human form of a woman in Sudan in an attempt to find a lost human boy and apologize for all the trouble and for being completely powerless to do anything helpful about it. But taking mortal form has its drawbacks, such as death. And so, after God passes away, the world declines.
The book is made up of short stories that share the overall theme that ask the question “what if God had died?” In these stories we see preachers who once had purpose but now are faced with the struggle of their meaningless lives; a group of boys who lose everything and search for some way to make it better; wars, not being fought over religion anymore, are fought over psychological ideals; and a dog who ate from God’s corpse speaks (literally) and tells his story of what happened to him and how he tried to make the world better with his new found knowledge.
As always I am a sucker for short stories. I found God Is Dead to be an interesting collection with each story dealing with the loss of God in a different way. My only complaint is that often the stories felt like the ended too soon and that they had so much more to say. The characters were interesting enough that I cared what happened to them. But when the story was over that is the last I saw of them. There is a lack of closer often which is probably intentional. It’s like those books I read when I was younger that would have a great plot but completely forget to include an ending and it was up to me to use my imagination (Fahrenheit 451, I’m looking at you). Books like these do leave a lasting impression but it is one of annoyance.
Either way, I highly recommend this book. You can also go bug Ron Currie Jr at his web site .
July 16th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Heh. I hate books like that too. I always find myself hoping that a sequel will come out just so my questions can be answered. Oryx and Crake is a great example of the non-ending ending.
July 16th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Heh. I hate books like that too. I always find myself hoping that a sequel will come out just so my questions can be answered. Oryx and Crake is a great example of the non-ending ending.
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