This
book is the stream of consciousness flowing through the mind of a
Manhattan dentist while someone is trying to steal his identity and
he becomes involved in a fake religion.
They
said:
….at
its best it is enormously impressive: profoundly and humanely engaged
:with the mysteries of belief and disbelief, linguistically agile and
wrong footing, and dismayingly funny in the way that only serious
books can be.
The
Guardian
…at
once laugh-out-loud funny about the absurdities of the modern world,
and indelibly profound about the eternal questions of the meaning of
life, love and truth. To
Rise Again at a Decent Hour is
a deeply moving and constantly surprising tour de force.
WWW
goodreads
…wit
so sharp, its fake-biblical texts so clever and its reach so big……a
major achievement
New
York Times
A
serious inquiry into the condition of a human soul.
Financial
Times
WE
said:
The
stream is heavily polluted
Why
am I reading this?
Sordid
“Funny”
- no way!
Do
not appreciate the tenor of the discourse
A
mind like a sewer and no wish to spend time in a sewer
Insulted
by it
No
redeeming features
Unmemorable
ending
6
people started the book - only 2 people got all the way through. The
rest gave up between page 33 and page 60.
There
was general agreement that:
it
did not deserve any mark at all: 0, zero, nothing, zilch, rien, nul
points!
(There
were mutters - was this choice “the Revenge of Liz”?)
PS
Credit
where it is due!
Sadly
this singular novel is all mouth and not quite enough trousers. The
Independent
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