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Title	:	God Is Dead
Author	:	Ron Currie Jr.
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 182 pages
Published	:	July 5th 2007 by Viking Adult
Categories	:	Fiction. Short Stories. Religion. Contemporary

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From a mind-blowing new talent, an audacious novel that imagines the world after God takes human form and dies When God descends to Earth as a Dinka woman from Sudan and subsequently dies in the Darfur desert, the result is a world both bizarrely new yet eerily familiar. In Ron Currie's provocative, wise, and emotionally resonant novel we meet God himself; the Dinka woman whose mortality He must suffer when He inhabits her body; people all over the world coping with the devastating news of God's demise; a group of young men who, fearing the end of the world, take fate into their own hands; mental patients who insist that a god still exists; armies taking up the eternal war between fate and free will; and parents who, in the absence of a deity and the “lack of anything to do on Sundays,” worship their children. On the surface, this is a world utterly transformed—yet certain things remain unchanged: protective parents clash with willful, idealistic teenagers; idols are exalted; small-town rumor mills run unabated; and children often don't realize how to forgive their parents until it's too late. In God Is Dead, Currie brings together a prescient satirical gift worthy of Jonathan Swift, the raw appeal of Chuck Palahniuk's blackest comedy, and the thought-provoking ethical questions of Kurt Vonnegut, all with a light touch, empathy, and wisdom that make for an exhilarating reading experience. Offbeat yet accessible, God Is Dead is an exciting debut from a fresh new voice in contemporary fiction.

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Original Title:	God Is Dead
ISBN:	0670038679 (ISBN13: 9780670038671)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award (2008)

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I bought this book on a City Lights staff recommendation. I thought it would be one of those "funny" books without much of substance, and I read it to read something enjoyable after finishing a torturous novel. Unlike that book of similar length, this one flew by, and in fact, I didn't want it to end as quickly as it did.It is a funny book, but is certainly not without substance. Comparisons to Vonnegut are appropriate, and that is no doubt partly why I liked it. This book contains a lot of

Very ambitious title. A collection of short stories describing what could happen following god's death. Each is very unique and the best is kept to the last part.

Pretty straight forward one to review this in fact despite what looks to be epic in scope if you read the books blurb I can sum up in a paragraph.Here we go: Currie's book is essentially several short stories based around the central concept God adopts human form to visit Earth and comes a cropper. Half of this book is thought provoking, ridiculously creative and borderline genius where as the rest is dull, meandering and pretty pointless. I have awarded this book 2 stars based on the 3 stories

I absolutely love this book. The concept is simple but the execution is DEEPLY complex. A story that begins with God dying in human form could play out in a pretty easy, cliche way but Ron Currie Jr. really digs deep into how the world would really change, bureaucratically, theologically, sociologically. It was absolutely fascinating. I wish every segment was twenty pages longer.

God is Dead is technically a collection of short stories loosely spanned over a period of several decades after God's death as a mortal on Earth. Its format becomes the greatest challenge, you never quite know what's happening and at what point you're in terms of the overall 'plot'. Except for the first story (which is truly remarkable), the rest fell short once you take them apart. They last couple of stories depend largely on the strength of the first one, and it becomes obvious as the

First, you have to assume that God exists. Then, you have to assume that it would be possible for him to die. I can do these things. Willing suspension of disbelief and all that.However, that didn't stop the book from reading a little like a writing exercise, more for the benefit of the author than the reader. And I found the sole character who is featured in more than one chapter to be pretty un-compelling. And the ending felt kind of rushed.Still, the ideas explored are interesting. The book

I bought this book purely because I was dashing into The Strand to get The Lacuna to read for my 2-person book club with Caitlin and I literally stopped dead in my tracks because I caught out of the corner of my eye a quality of line in the cover art that reminded me of the drawings in Dogs and Water one of my favorite ""graphic novels"" of all time. Much of Anders Nilsen's other stuff is pretty difficult to get your hands on and I must have had hope for a second that he had another big book