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God Says No (2009)

by James Hannaham(Favorite Author)

3.49 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1934781401 (ISBN13: 9781934781401)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

McSweeney's

review 1: I picked this up at L.A.'s most bad-ass used bookstore, The Last Bookstore. However, as badass as they are, they misfiled this as a memoir. I got about 150 pages in when I thought to myself, "Jesus, this dude had one boring life!" I kept on reading, suffering through about 20 more pages before I had to look at the author photo to see what a person with such a dull life looks like. Imagine my surprise when I noticed the authors name did not match that of the protagonist. So I popped over to goodreads where I learned that it is a novel written in the style of a memoir. That's when I decided to give the book zero stars because how could one take so much time to makeup something that is literally more boring than real life. Alas, I can only give it one star, but it does not wa... morerrant that. This is in the top 10 worst books I have ever read. It was so bad that I am kind of angry about it.
review 2: Given the superlatives lavished on this book by a few reviewers, I really expected to love this story about a man torn between self-identity and religious identity. While there were some wonderful and touching moments to the book, I found it simply too long in the telling. I do think it is an important story and reflective of many people's inner struggle to reconcile who they are with who they want to be; however, Hannaham's book could have benefitted from some major editing. less

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