I’ll freely admit my irreverence. Unlike your average Muslim, I can get a kick out of my religion without fearing that my God or His son will get their precious feelings hurt. I mean, if they can create a world, they can handle a little good-natured ribbing. I guess that’s why one of my favorite books is Lamb: The gospel according to Biff, Christ’s childhood pal.
In the spirit of Lamb comes The Second Coming
God’s been on a fishing vacation for the last 400 or so years, and when He gets back, He is truly pissed at the sad state of affairs. Too many fractioned Christians, WTF is up with Mohammed’s people? and what’s a fax machine?
This whole time the Son of God has been smoking heaven-grade weed with Jimi Hendrix, and getting little work done. So the Bossman sends him back to set things straight.
When I opened up the front cover to the author blurb, I was shocked to find that Niven is from my ex-husband’s hometown of Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland – a town I lived in when I first moved overseas. Nobody comes from Irvine. Seriously. It’s a one-castle-ruin town. Yet in its own way, his birthplace brings me that tiny bit closer to him, having stepped out the front door to the winter smell of coal fires and distant sheep shit.
I’m about 40 pages into the book, read while I was waiting for my pal Olga this afternoon. So far it’s pretty funny, and Saint Andrew’s Scottish accent is fucking brill.
Check it out.
The Second Coming by John Niven
Okay I will. Check it out that is.
I’m afraid that it isn’t my kind of book. Sam and the Firefly by P.D. Eastman brings back memories of reading to the girls just before bedtime. Life was so much simpler in 1975. I didn’t care about politics or religion, I just wanted to have fun(get drunk/high/laid) and go to sleep without throwing up. Now being awake makes me want to puke.
Thanks for bringing it up. Us Christians need a reality check once in awhile; however, I don’t read religious books on either side of the aisle. The Bible itself is a fun read, if you catch the humor and friendship it contains. That is if you can get away from all the stereotypes the books about the Bible contain. You find a God and Jesus more like ‘the second coming’ than most Christian bookstores boost. I’m glad you enjoy it though, life needs fun.