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    From the page: I simply did not like this book! I understand it was to be a collection of short stories, fictional, but that they were meant to be tied into actual history of the times. Well, this is entirely false! The history of the times as presented in this book is garbled and full of... more

    Reviewed by Fletch1979 Jul 19 2008, 05:20pm ( 52 reviews ) • qualitynonsense.com

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  • Rated by StyleCaster on Oct 02, 12:32pm

    From the page: "My more diligent readers may wish to read the reviews in full and post any more in the comments below. Bless you, Jeff Bezos."

  • Rated by Orline on Aug 16, 8:09am

    "Definitely not his best work"

  • Rated by Fletch1979 on Jul 19 2008, 5:20pm

    From the page: I simply did not like this book! I understand it was to be a collection of short stories, fictional, but that they were meant to be tied into actual history of the times. Well, this is entirely false! The history of the times as presented in this book is garbled and full of misconceptions. Anybody who reads this be warned- do NOT follow the history presented as verbatim. Also, there is rampant contradictions within many of the stories themselves. For example, the main character, who is variously known as "Yahweh" or "God" or "Lord" is said to be loving and kind and wants to protect the people. Yet, he then turns around and "smites" people left and right, through a variety of methods such as famine, disease, flood, (that was a biggy) and in some cases, downright insanity. Yet, the people love him anyway, and continue to talk about what a great God he is. The only sense I can make of it is that the people had that syndrome where a person held against their will comes to love the captors. Although I understood the stories to be fantasy, I still was tangled up by the lack of flow in general. Even in fantasy, the plot should tie up and make some sort of sense on that realm. For instance, the first story of this book, where the Lord used magical incantations to create the universe, the earth, animals and plants and then the first people, there is a huge question presented that I have yet to see answered. The Lord said "let US make man in OUR own image" Who was he talking to, if he was the sole Lord God? It is sloppy writing to introduce characters into a story and then not explain them somehow, someway. Also I'd like to point out rampant plagiarism. Many of these stories are obviously (very poorly) copied from earlier legends and tales of the Sumerians- many thousands of years before Jesus was even a twinkle in his daddy's eye. Yet I see no reference anywhere to credit the original source. I think somebody ought to be sued, but since we aren't clear on who the authors of this ill-begotten book really are, I guess no action can be taken. How did this book ever get published? Crazy.

  • Rated by apeckham on Jul 13 2008, 1:22pm

    Sweet, sweet sacrilege. It's been a while since I've laughed that hard. "I picked this up because I heard it advertised as the Gospel, which translates to "good news." It opens up by telling the reader how the human race is doomed because two poorly developed characters ate an apple that a snake told them to eat. That's not good news."

  • Rated by gopherguts1218 on Jun 30 2008, 8:56pm

    Hahahaha, definitely not his best work...