Rating: Summary: Not the standard answer to life's questions. Review: If I were trapped on a desert island I would not want this book; I would want a way off of the stinking island. However if one wanted to give a gift that humanistically dealt witha few of the ultimate questions of religion, philosophy, and human existance and was an entertaining easy read, they should give this book. It is, in part, a dective novel set in the very near future containing humor, science fiction, philosophy, and magic. Anyone who enjoys science fiction or fantasy or philosophy or Mike Hammer/Philip Marlowe stories and does not enjoy this novel should be stuck on that stinking desert island.
Rating: Summary: Not the standard answer to life's questions. Review: If I were trapped on a desert island I would not want this book; I would want a way off of the stinking island. However if one wanted to give a gift that humanistically dealt witha few of the ultimate questions of religion, philosophy, and human existance and was an entertaining easy read, they should give this book. It is, in part, a dective novel set in the very near future containing humor, science fiction, philosophy, and magic. Anyone who enjoys science fiction or fantasy or philosophy or Mike Hammer/Philip Marlowe stories and does not enjoy this novel should be stuck on that stinking desert island.
Rating: Summary: God is dead - Nietzsche Review: I have one phrase to describe this book. You'll have to decide which way you take it. A novel concept, brilliantly executed.
Rating: Summary: God is dead - Nietzsche Review: I have one phrase to describe this book. You'll have to decide which way you take it. A novel concept, brilliantly executed.
Rating: Summary: Made me laugh, made me think. Review: The book is almost worth buying for the premise alone: a hitman is hired to take out God. The idea is an intriguing one (how do you kill a target you can't find?) and allows for some really interesting philosphical questions-- like, does the Big Guy deserve to get wacked or not? The book is written in the style of a Sam Spade novel, and I found myself laughing out loud at some of the narrator's wise-cracks. Any book that can make me both laugh and think is a winner.
Rating: Summary: Made me laugh, made me think. Review: The book is almost worth buying for the premise alone: a hitman is hired to take out God. The idea is an intriguing one (how do you kill a target you can't find?) and allows for some really interesting philosphical questions-- like, does the Big Guy deserve to get wacked or not? The book is written in the style of a Sam Spade novel, and I found myself laughing out loud at some of the narrator's wise-cracks. Any book that can make me both laugh and think is a winner.
Rating: Summary: Dell Ammo breaches the gates to pull the Cosmic Trigger! Review: The Prometheus Award-winning classic is back! A dying assassin is given one last assignment and one last chance for survival. The job: to find God Almighty and destroy Him. The payment: eternal life. With the aid of a beautiful lady gambler, an ancient Hollywood witch, and a telepathic smartass of a girl, Dell Ammo breaches the gates of Heaven and Hell to pull the Cosmic Trigger.
Rating: Summary: Back cover of The Jehovah Contract Review: The Prometheus Award-winning classic is back! A dying assassin is given one last assignment and one last chance for survival. The job: to find God Almighty and destroy Him. The payment: eternal life. With the aid of a beautiful lady gambler, an ancient Hollywood witch, and a telepathic smartass of a girl, Dell Ammo breaches the gates of Heaven and Hell to pull the Cosmic Trigger. "A novel of cosmic-and comic-proportions." - Library Journal "Explodes like a string of firecrackers... The suspense never lets up... I highly recommend it." -Robert Anton Wilson "Audacious... a fine combination of logic and madness." -Robert Shea "The Jehovah Contract will surely be excoriated in religious and literary circles, but this damnation of God should be pondered objectively by both believers and nonbelievers. It is a good, thought-provoking effort that is that rarity in fiction: philosophy that entertains." -Piers Anthony "...a tightly written, well-paced suspense fantasy that succeeds on many levels.... a satire, adventure and suspense novel told with great skill and interesting invention. The Jehovah Contract... is conceptually audacious to the max." -Norman Spinrad "We need to have the genre shaken up from time to time; The Jehovah Contract does just that-and does it better than most. Highly recommended." -Charles de Lint, Fantasy Review "I wholeheartedly recommend this Mission Impossible/Phillip Marlowe/Mike Hammer/John Milton Faith Opera." -Phillip José Farmer "Continues influencing the reader's thoughts for a long time afterwards.... About a zillion things I wish I'd thought of first.... This book's going to start as a cult favorite... in much the same way Tolkien's work or Herbert's Dune have." -L. Neil Smith "The novel the New Wave was trying to write and never quite did... Victor Koman's new masterpiece." -Ray Faraday Nelson "If Raymond Chandler had taken Aldous Huxley's advice and tried LSD, The Jehovah Contract is the novel he would have written." -J. Neil Schulman
Rating: Summary: Hitman Kills God - Film at 11 Review: What else can you put down in words that can't be told with a simple 5? Hitman hired to kill God. It catches you from the beginning. You laugh at the whacked humor. It takes turns you don't expect. It poses questions people don't want answered. It's more than a work of science fiction. It's a review about the nature of man and what drives him. Beliefs, philosophy, pyschology, religion...it's all there. Buy the book. It's well worth your time.
Rating: Summary: Hitman Kills God - Film at 11 Review: What else can you put down in words that can't be told with a simple 5? Hitman hired to kill God. It catches you from the beginning. You laugh at the whacked humor. It takes turns you don't expect. It poses questions people don't want answered. It's more than a work of science fiction. It's a review about the nature of man and what drives him. Beliefs, philosophy, pyschology, religion...it's all there. Buy the book. It's well worth your time.
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