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Summary: Revisionist Historian
Review: A literary connect-the-dots of historic facts and fiction, blurred visions of spiritual beings, and endless babble about how wrong we all were in re-formulating history. Interspersed with refreshing elements of revolutionary ideas, the momentum soon diverts into clichee and the reader is left with a pile of pulp made soggy by tears of boredom. Chance encounters with spritual beings are downgraded to the most primitive element and the fun ends there. An all too human tale of a writer lost in a paralell universe, an Italian who couldn't cope with the generic and abstract landscape of the new world. Pity those who spend not only the money, but also the time...
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Summary: beautiful blasphemy
Review: I don't understand why anyone would judge this book on its historical or Biblical accuracy, which is in fact rather childish. This is literature at its best, where the pages come to life as the history of humanity is altered to fit the tale. Nothing is sacred in this book, and thank God for that. In fact, better to say that humanity is made sacred in this work, for all its mistakes and errors. Look elsewhere for a cruel and heartless diety of scripture, look here to find a God gifted with the highest quality--that of being human.
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Summary: God creates man to understand himself better.
Review: I had high hopes for this book, and indeed it was very interesting at first, however, it just dragged on with the same vignette repeated over and over again. Basically in this story, God creates man to understand himself better. He ends up helping us in various ways, so that man can understand his nature. That would have been interesting if it wasn't the same time and time again. The last few pages were almost interesting with God's interrogation of Mussolini, but that was even underdone.
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Summary: Ferrucci's ultimate projection.
Review: It has been said that an unhappy childhood is a writer's goldmine. For writers with a healthy imagination the subjects of god and religion offer another feast of riches. While of agnostic persuasion, I do enjoy reading books on the omnipotent creator. Among recent reads, I greatly enjoyed Malamud's "God's Grace", while being far less positive about Morrow's "Towing Jehovah". I really liked Ferrucci's "Life of God" and hope that many future readers will be similarly enchanted by this bittersweet novel. Ferrucci's god created the universe to fight his feeling of loneliness yet has no direct "omnipotent" control after the moment of productions. While any attempt at cohesion on this subject requires a varying number of impossible details to be swept under the rug, Ferrucci spins a delicate web where compassion, gentleness, humor and disappointment are essential ingredients. In this book Ferrucci starts with a retelling of the book Genesis, but spends more time on pre-human creation than the original. After creation of the monkey god encounters man after a period of absence from planet earth. The creator can choose residence in both humans and other living things and encounters and moves into a variety of historical figures and less celebrated members of the human race. Ferrucci's god meets Moses, Jesus and Buddha and seems to come to the closest agreement with the latter at the end of this book. His discussions of the image of god carried by mankind in all its variety are a highlight of this book. The book follows the events of history including the World Wars up to present times and ends with the creator planning his departure from planet earth. The story is beautifully written and contains engaging insights in religion, the arts and ethics. I thought the encounter with the prince of darkness was a little disappointing and that Ferrucci missed a chance in not including a discussion between Nietzsche and his creator. These are, however, minor details that should not keep anyone from enjoying this gentle tale.
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Summary: Lovable, Sweet and Utterly Charming
Review: This book is extremely good. I loved reading section 1, it was fabulous, then section 2, was still good, and three a little less, then four finally, was just ok, and the ending died out. He should have put a more dominant and firm ending. Like someone said, this book isn't for everyone, but for "the thinkers of Mankind". And it is a wonderful novel AND philisophical book. A Must read for anyone interested in the concept of "god" and his existence. (mind my spelling)
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Summary: Philosophical and compelling
Review: This book should become a classic if it hasn't done so already! It's the sort of book I can imagine on future reading lists in schools and colleges. It is a mind-blowing, deeply thought-provoking book, following and challenging the history of creation and mankind, right up to present day, with plenty of nail-biting yarns along the way!. You will be drawn in by the humble, bewildered character, God, who longs to communicate with man and find out what he's doing here on earth, and why these creatures worship him so much, when he, God, is just as flawed, imperfect and base as man himself. It's God's own personal journey (like all of us) trying to make sense of life, trying to follow different philosophies, trying to understand man and at the same time, falling in love with beauty, nature and all the pleasures that life entices us with. Ferrucci shows an extensive knowledge of history, philosophy and religion, but he also writes a compelling story too. I bought this book for several friends, dying to hear their reaction too.
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Summary: Philosophical and compelling
Review: This book should become a classic if it hasn't done so already! It's the sort of book I can imagine on future reading lists in schools and colleges. It is a mind-blowing, deeply thought-provoking book, following and challenging the history of creation and mankind, right up to present day, with plenty of nail-biting yarns along the way!. You will be drawn in by the humble, bewildered character, God, who longs to communicate with man and find out what he's doing here on earth, and why these creatures worship him so much, when he, God, is just as flawed, imperfect and base as man himself. It's God's own personal journey (like all of us) trying to make sense of life, trying to follow different philosophies, trying to understand man and at the same time, falling in love with beauty, nature and all the pleasures that life entices us with. Ferrucci shows an extensive knowledge of history, philosophy and religion, but he also writes a compelling story too. I bought this book for several friends, dying to hear their reaction too.
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Summary: Imaginative tale
Review: This is a very creative and thought-provoking book. I definitely recommend it and hope everyone enjoys it as much as I did.
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