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What In God's Name (2012)

by Simon Rich(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0316133736 (ISBN13: 9780316133739)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Reagan Arthur Books

review 1: Hilarious! In fact, I frittered away the morning reading it because I just couldn't stop. Simon Rich is always funny and when I opened this last night I didn't even know what the premise was (or, in fact, that it was a novel. I assumed it was a collection. I'm not the one who checked it out of the library.) Imagine my delight at discovering the book is set in Heaven, which God is the CEO of. Craig and Eliza are angels in the miracles dept, which is somewhat lowly. I love books set in heaven, or portraying God and angels as extremely human people (The Second Greatest Story Ever Told is one of my all time faves), and this one is especially hilarious. I loved all the details, such as the computer program that lets them watch any thing that ever occurred and which all the Ang... moreels use solely for procrastination. Very funny, very fast, and quite charming.
review 2: This a fun book with an interesting take on heaven! It portrays God as the CEO of a company, Heaven Inc, made up of a staff of angels. However, God is bored with Earth and most of the angels are just passing time until they can retire. But there are 2 hard working angels who are determined not to give up on the humans, Eliza works in the Prayer department and is promoted to Miracles where Craig is the "Angel of the month". When they discover that God has given up answering prayers and is in fact thinking of giving up on Earth, they strike a deal that he will change his mind if they can manage to answer a prayer. It turns out though that this is not as easy as they hoped, will they manage it before the deadline? I recommend this as a fun read, reminding me of the style of Tom Holt. less

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