Books by Michel Faber
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review 1: After Saramago's Gospel According to Jesus Christ, I've read another gospel book. It couldn't be more different, except that both books present JC as a human being with a natural terror of dying by torture. His last words on the cross were 'Somebody stop this!', at least accordin...
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review 1: Clever, sad, funny and engaging, a SF novel in the finest tradition of commentary on the ways of natives of our own world cast into relief on another, strange one. Particularly well done is the characterisation of the decent, hapless, born-again innocent Peter, and his superficia...
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review 1: A man unearths a lost gospel, one written by someone who actually knew Jesus and who witnessed the Crucifixion. However, what if that gospel contradicted what the New Testament tells us about the Death and Resurrection? What if the set of assumptions about Christianity were pro...
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review 1: My introduction to Michel Faber, and now I can't wait to read Crimson Petal And The White. I can't complain this one is too short - it's meant to be and proves its point in 200 pages. A very clever transposition of the story of Prometheus, set to the tone of an extremely egotisti...