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EAN: 9780002713573 Format: Import ISBN: 0002713578 Label: The Harvill Press Manufacturer: The Harvill Press Number Of Pages: 360 Publication Date: April 02, 1994 Publisher: The Harvill Press Studio: The Harvill Press Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A bit disappointingI like Jose Saramago as a writer. I like religion as a topic. However, it took me a very long time to get into this book. The first half dragged on for WAY longer than I felt it could have and though the second half delivered everything I'd been hoping for all along, the fact that it took so long to get to it was bit disappointing. In the end, I think it could have been more effective as a novella. That said, I did enjoy it once it got moving. Rating:  - Commercial book for an average reader I was very excited to read that book.But very shortly, my disappointment took me by surprise. Primitive writing, simple sentences, hackneyed subject used by so many writer in order to make some $$$ Seems like writer was in a rush to finish the book, many ideas have suffered a premature death. I believe, it is a shame that nowadays an ordinary (not to say pathetic) writer like that can get a Noble prize. This book could be so much more, if given in the hands of a talented person! Read More Rating:  - Saramago's GospelSaramago's `Gospel of Jesus Christ' is really Saramago's gospel taking pot-shots at the biblical Gospel. The Bible storyline is flagrantly ignored, replaced, changed, and enlarged, with Jesus, instead of being the "perfect sacrifice", being a pretty good guy who falls into sin just as easily as your or I. God the Father is uncaring, indifferent, unaware, incapable, and maybe even evil instead of being merciful and kind to His children "as high as the heavens are above the earth" per Isaiah. The ... Read More Rating:  - Uncharacteristic Characterization of ChristI believe this novel will be especially compelling for those of whom it may not have been intended, namely ardent believers. Those of us who memorized passages, acted out scenes, and were often rebuked with parables. As a thought experiment on the psychology of Jesus it is most compelling, most notably for the style in which the narrative dialogue is constructed. Conversation is organic, it flows right along with the scene, and it is inferred within the context of the ongoing mental movie derived ... Read More Rating: - Imaginative and ProvocativeThis is a wonderful work of fiction that is creatively devised and unique. It is certainly, as has previously been forewarned by others, not for the devout reader who will take offense when faced with a work of fiction that does not accurately depict Jesus and those closest to him as is told by the canonical Gospels and orthodox scholarship. Saramago takes the Gospels and distills them into a remnant not unlike a skeleton upon which he casts his own flesh of fiction. What is perhaps the most impressive ... Read More |
