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A review by amber_lea84
The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Bobby Henderson
3.0
First off, I just want to say the format of this book is terrible. It's so big and floppy and I hate it. I imagine this must have been some kind of cost cutting measure and not stylistic choice.
The only thing I can really think to say is that this book is very much a product of it's time. It's clearly a reaction to the political/religious climate of the early 2000s. I wish I'd read it at the time, because some of this doesn't seem so clever now, 15 years later. It's sometimes funny, sometimes stupid, and not an easy book to sit down and read cover-to-cover despite being so short.
But it's still worth reading because it's a joke worth being in on. There are lots of really quotable lines and insightful passages.
The only thing I can really think to say is that this book is very much a product of it's time. It's clearly a reaction to the political/religious climate of the early 2000s. I wish I'd read it at the time, because some of this doesn't seem so clever now, 15 years later. It's sometimes funny, sometimes stupid, and not an easy book to sit down and read cover-to-cover despite being so short.
But it's still worth reading because it's a joke worth being in on. There are lots of really quotable lines and insightful passages.