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Lädt ... Golgatha live oder Das fünfte Testament. (1992)von Gore Vidal
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Jesus meets history and decides to erase all mention of his name. Vidal gets to poke a lot of fun at Christianity in the process. ( ) a great read for the Christmas season. Vidal uses his usual wit and unblinking irreverence to turn the story of St. Paul on its head and into a funky dark satire reminiscent of Christopher Moore’s Lamb. or did he tell the Real Story? quo vademus? we can never be sure because of the presence of one or more hackers who may or may not be erasing and changing the course of history by altering history “tapes.” St. Timothy begins seeing and receiving visitors (he calls them “kibitzers”) and visions from the future via a Sony television set and at certain times and locations. Chet from GE wants him to anchor a “live” broadcast from Golgotha on the day of Jesus’s crucifixion but other people have different ideas about that. along the way, out protagonist Timothy meets some colorful people -Shirley McLain, Oral Roberts, and Mary Baker Eddy to name just a few- and the ending is a surprisingly satisfying twist that even Judas wouldn’t see coming. time travel, homosexuality, corporate politics, espionage, and Barum & Bailey-style showmanship/grifting represent the story of the birth of Christianity- quo melior? Sacrilegious, punk, scathing, sharp, but ultimately forgettable, and pointless. The perfect book to read on the beach in the summer or when you really want to piss off a Catholic on your Goodreads list. No, that's not totally fair. Parts of the story are rather clever and memorable. The polished obsidian stone, for example.
No, the author himself was the issue. Once something of a hero of mine, he has long since set my teeth on edge with his unseemly patrician preenings and posturings (his sainted grandfather, Senator Thomas Gore of Oklahoma, has become a particularly intrusive pest of Vidalian folklore), with his smug determination, in recent collections of essays, to be the smartest alec on the block and, above all, with that ongoing cycle of clumpish historical novels which sound the way James Michener, say, might sound after taking a course in creative writing. My heart also sank when, flicking through this novel's pages, I immediately lit on the profanity 'Jesus Christ] Prestigeträchtige Auswahlen
Timothy (later St. Timothy) is in his study in Thessalonika, where he is bishop of Macedonia. It is A.D. 96, and Timothy is under terrific pressure to record his version of the Sacred Story, since, far in the future, a cyberpunk (the Hacker) has been systematically destroying the tapes that describe the Good News, and Timothy's Gospel is the only one immune to the Hacker's deadly virus. Meanwhile, thanks to a breakthrough in computer software, an NBC crew is racing into the past to capture--live from the suburb of Golgotha--the Crucifixion, for a TV special guaranteed to boost the network's ratings in the fall sweeps. As a stream of visitors from twentieth-century America channel in to the first-century Holy Land--Mary Baker Eddy, Shirley MacLaine, Oral Roberts and family--Timothy struggles to complete his story. But is Timothy's text really Hacker-proof? And how will he deal with the truth about Jesus' eating disorder? Above all, will he get the anchor slot for the Big Show at Golgotha without representation by a major agency, like CAA 1,896 years in the future? Tune in. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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