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Summary: Very cool read
Review: I bought this book and Satan Burger by Carlton Mellick III at the same time. Both had rave reviews and both seemed like interesting takes on a religious theme. I was extremely amazed by both of these books. I wasn't expecting much because I have never heard of either of these authors but I was pleasantly surprised. If you are interested in religion yet don't take it all that seriously then this is a book to check out. Obviously a hardcore christian might get offended but who liked those people anyway?I would have given it 5 stars but I read it right after Satan Burger and like that book just a tad better than this one. But they are two completely different books and should not be compared. This is a very smart read. Highly recommended!
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Summary: It's fiction, so what? A worthy read...
Review: I enjoyed this book and like others, can understand how this work started "cults" or a new religious movement in certain states. The author has admitted in an interview that this work is entirely fiction, but in more ways than one, this myth contains many "truths." This book offers the other side, a different version of events with new perspective on the stories of pre-creation, adam and eve, cain and abel, moses, lazarus, jesus, and a chilling prophecy for the End of Times. For those that that believe the Bible raises more questions than answers, this book is a must-read for you. The author sums up his objective in the final page of the book: "We should not follow others without knowing why we do so. We should understand what we believe and why. We need to look at weaknesses in our faith and learn to ask questions. If the faith is true, then it will stand the scrutiny. It will come out all the stronger for it. If it fails, then it deserves to fall. We need to find our own path, and not simply be led by what our fathers believed." Highly recommended to all. A worthy read.
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Summary: I've seen the light and it is a black flame!!!
Review: I must say that I've found this book to be very enlightening as well as very entertaining. I have learned a great deal more than I already knew as to just how contrary the Christian God really is. I also feel that the book paints a much more honest picture of Lucifer in as far as his appearance, his intentions towards the race of man and his kindness and benevolence towards us. This is quite a contrast to the Christian God who is very jealous and twisted and wants to keep us in the dark at all costs. I also feel that John DeVito has done a tremendous job in presenting this material to us. The wording and pacing of the story are done very well. I found it very easy to digest this material. John also seems to have the ability to write in such a way that you don't want to put the book down. It literally sucks you in.
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Summary: Amazing and Profound
Review: I just got this and it is incredible. I can usually read a book pretty quickly, but this one I find myself rereading sections 2 and 3 times. Since the age of 7, I have questioned the bible. I have never believed it to be a whole or real telling of history or the way things became as they are now. I have read many of the Gnostic chapters and I have read many of the other great works of religion, always searching for something near the proximity of the truth. This book is so chilling because the logic and science behind the thoughts could very well be the way it occurred. I had to do extensive searches on the Internet to even determine if this was a work of fiction or non-fiction.
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Summary: Hold onto your faith, this could be a bumpy ride!
Review: This book is brilliant. Having read favourable reviews from others, I was hoping that it would live up to my expectations. It exceeded them. The ideas are very clever but I won't spoil things by revealing them here. It is true to say that the subject matter is 'sensitive', yet this book should only be branded controversial if considered to be the truth. Is it the truth? Is the Bible?
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Summary: Good!
Review: This book poses the provocative premise that Satan is the good guy trying to save the human race from the tyranny of God. It's an abridged version of Bible content told from a Satan sympathist point of view. Anyone who has ever studied the Bible would agree that there are holes and contradictions. This author cleverly fills in those holes with an alternative religious philosophy. The only flaw is the author claims that this text is based on "found" parchments that conveniently no longer exist because they "disintegrated" but not before he was able to photocopy the pages of this (nonexistent) sacred document. If you are willing to read this book with an open mind, it's a thought-provoking page-turner; the Celestine Prophecy of this decade!
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Summary: An Incredible book
Review: okay, it should be made quite aware that this is NOT the Apocrypha, but a novel. it's only a scary book if you feel your own morality in question. this book feeds off the church conspiracy theorists and gives it an emotional twist so the reader can't help but feel a nagging pull inside. masterfully done. being a reader who has no belief in God or Lucifer, I felt none of what the writer was trying to accomplish except the occassional grin and gasp at the vivd detail. to those who read this book and felt need to 'save the souls of others', shame on you for not having more faith in your own religion that you felt so afraid enough to post it here. fear of words only have the strength that you give them. all that being said, I felt that this book was very well written (it had a fantasy novel feel) and I recommend it to anyone who has the ability to read books for the enjoyment of the book, not the hidden implications written between the lines.
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Summary: A great idea, but...
Review: A great idea, but it could have been as good as any of Dan Brown's books with some work shopping and professional look. The material is there to have a great historical thriller: a man has a vision that tells him to find the 3 parts of a gospel and ordered to go forth and find them. What a tale that telling would be, perhaps hounded and followed by the Religious Right that doesn't want him to find them. Then a scene with some immediacy as he finds each of the three and the last one dies before he learns all he must! And he has to understand what these gospels are saying. Instead that man easily finds all three parts and when the third person dies before he gets the last of the gospel, that part is literally handed to him by someone who knocks on his door! No suspense. And to lower suspense even more, the book is put to print by the supposed current-day grandson of the man who did found these gospels. And the fantastic suspense could be drawn out by him having to have someone help him understand the gospels, comparing them to the Bible and implying what the difference means. Or, if the gospels were really all from Lucifer's view point, instead of omniscient. As it is, the gospels are 3/4 of the book and not fast reading, nor as beautifully written as the Bible. It has all the pronouns referring to all the deities capitalized which makes you pause. Trying to compare the writing as in the book with your memory of the Bible (and mine is good) makes it slow reading. And the ending is such a let down! The writing itself needed a few more passes to even up the writing. Some parts are fairly well done and could have been great; most are acceptable and could have been brought up to at least good. Now for some nitpicking. I mentioned the capitalized letters above. Any line editor would have said to kill these. Maybe they did and he ignored the advise. Any book editor would have insisted these not be capitalized because it implies that the teller of the story, Satan supposedly, thinks that they are gods. The Thee and Thou is way overused. It has its place, but not as used. If there were line editors, they missed a bunch of errors. I love his answer to some of the Bible's unanswered questions and inconsistencies. The ideas are great, but the book could have been really great with more work. Self publishing is the rave, why pay an agent 10-20% of your royalty, when you can have it all? Why wait 2 years for your book to come out from a main stream book club, when it can come out in 90days? Most of the time, I agree. But this is a book that would have be benefitted greatly from the reviews and suggestions made during that process. As it is, he published with iUniverse/Writers Club Press. I'm sure he's made a good bit of money. He could have made ten times more, net to him after agent fees.
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Summary: Okay, but already done
Review: Not a bad book but already done by Anatole France in Revolte de Angeles. Lacks the France sense of irony.
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Summary: Interesting, but not that great
Review: I suppose those who have a big chip on their shoulder against traditional monotheistic religion are the primary audience for this one (and the author said that he doubts "religious fanatics" will even make it past the first chapter). As a Christian, yes, I had philosophical problems with the message of the book. I did, however, read it through, and did find the story to be clever, though not as original as others claim. The "God is really evil, his enemies really good" trope is very old in science fiction/fantasy, and this one is not the best take on it I've seen. Its gimmick is its pseudo-Biblical language, which, honestly, is a pretty poor imitation. The book seems to have had fairly poor editing in this edition, and I found the ungrammatical and awkward thou's and thee's and hath's very annoying by the end of the book. The book does best when it sticks to the often dramatic and clever twists on the plot of the Bible story. When it gets preachy, it becomes as annoying and hard to stomach for me as I suppose Christian literature is hard to stomach for hardcore atheists. The chapter that's nothing but a series of unpoetic platitudes descrbing the author's ethical and political beliefs bugged me, and I was really turned off by the chapter of "prophecy" at the end which shoehorned Hitler and Muslim terrorism into the scope of the story. An okay read, a nice mythology for radical atheist/humanists, but not superb literature and yes, tough slog for anyone who disagrees with the author.
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