Ben sez:
> Has anyone else enjoyed James Morrow's books as much
> as I have (which is to say, a lot)?
Here, here! "Towing Jehovah" [1] is one of the best novels I read last
year. (I kinda caught onto Morrow late in the game...) You know,
though, for somebody who professes to be an atheist, I have to confess
that I've been reading a whole lot of religiously-oriented / exploratory
fiction and nonfiction regarding the nature of "God," "the Devil,"
"evil," and so forth over the last few years. (Hey, I just want to have
an informed opinion in the inevitable debates. Sadly, I find that most
religious nuts "won't argue right." ;-) I've included a few pointers
below; I enjoyed all of these immensely, but sadly some of them are out
of print. Many of these are pretty light but still managed to be a
little bit thought-provoking. (Most of these are in the Judeo-Christian
slant, with brief excursions into Islam and other related faiths. If we
want to talk Eastern, I've got a different bib.)
jb
[1] Towing Jehovah etc. by James Morrow
[2] To Reign in Hell by Steven Brust
[3] Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain
[4] The Screwtape Letters etc. by C. S. Lewis.
[5] Earthly Remains by Peter Hernon
[6] Job: A Comedy of Justice by Robert Heinlein
[7] Archangel etc. by Sharon Shinn
[8] The Devil's Day by James Blish
[9] Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice (yeah, yeah ;-)
[10] Inferno by Niven and Pournelle
[11] Between Night and Morn etc. by Kahlil Gibran
[12] Serpent and Lily etc. by Nikos Kazantzakis
[13] The Book of J by Bloom and Rosenberg (nonfic)
[14] Critiques of God by Peter Angeles (nonfic)
[15] A History of God by Karen Armstrong (nonfic)
[16] The Psalms of Herod byEsther Friesner
[17] Circuit of Heaven by Dennis Danvers
[18] Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (funny!)
[19] The Devil's Advocate by Morris West (not the movie)
[20] The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
[21] Waking the Moon etc. by Elizabeth Hand
[22] Stalking Tender Prey etc. by Storm Constantine
[23] Jack Faust by Michael Swanwick
[23] Newton's Cannon by J. Gregory Keyes
[24] Who Was Jesus? by G. A. Wells (nonfic)
[25] Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard Friedman (nonfic)
jb
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Ben sez:
> Has anyone else enjoyed James Morrow's books as much
> as I have (which is to say, a lot)?
Here, here! "Towing Jehovah" [1] is one of the best novels I read last year. (I kinda caught onto Morrow late in the game...) You know, though, for somebody who professes to be an atheist, I have to confess that I've been reading a whole lot of religiously-oriented / exploratory fiction and nonfiction regarding the nature of "God," "the Devil," "evil," and so forth over the last few years. (Hey, I just want to have an informed opinion in the inevitable debates. Sadly, I find that most religious nuts "won't argue right." ;-) I've included a few pointers below; I enjoyed all of these immensely, but sadly some of them are out of print. Many of these are pretty light but still managed to be a little bit thought-provoking. (Most of these are in the Judeo-Christian slant, with brief excursions into Islam and other related faiths. If we want to talk Eastern, I've got a different bib.)
jb
[1] Towing
Jehovah etc. by James Morrow
[2] To
Reign in Hell by Steven Brust
[3] Letters
from the Earth by Mark Twain
[4] The
Screwtape Letters etc. by C. S. Lewis.
[5] Earthly
Remains by Peter Hernon
[6] Job:
A Comedy of Justice by Robert Heinlein
[7] Archangel
etc. by Sharon Shinn
[8] The
Devil's Day by James Blish
[9] Memnoch
the Devil by Anne Rice (yeah, yeah ;-)
[10] Inferno
by Niven and Pournelle
[11] Between
Night and Morn etc. by Kahlil Gibran
[12] Serpent
and Lily etc. by Nikos Kazantzakis
[13] The
Book of J by Bloom and Rosenberg (nonfic)
[14] Critiques
of God by Peter Angeles (nonfic)
[15] A
History of God by Karen Armstrong (nonfic)
[16] The
Psalms of Herod byEsther Friesner
[17] Circuit
of Heaven by Dennis Danvers
[18] Good
Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (funny!)
[19] The
Devil's Advocate by Morris West (not the movie)
[20] The
Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
[21] Waking
the Moon etc. by Elizabeth Hand
[22] Stalking
Tender Prey etc. by Storm Constantine
[23] Jack
Faust by Michael Swanwick
[23] Newton's
Cannon by J. Gregory Keyes
[24] Who
Was Jesus? by G. A. Wells (nonfic)
[25] Who
Wrote the Bible? by Richard Friedman (nonfic)
jb
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