Product Description

Written as God's secret diary, this is a humorous, satirical look at the history of God, which puts a very different spin on the biblical stories. God's diary entries deal with biblical events such as the Creation, the fall of Lucifer, Moses and the Israelites, as well as apocryphal matters such as the disappearance of the dinosaurs, God's chess game with Confucius, and the fact that the fateful tree in the Garden of Eden is actually a lemon tree, which Adam and Eve eat after the Devil provides them with a bottle of tequila.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1036076 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

About the Author
A wrtier and rock musician, Koos Kombuis was at the forefront of alternative Afrikaner cukture from the 1980's. His autobiography, Sex, Drugs en Boeremusiek, was a South African best-seller.

Customer Reviews

Nice premise, disappointing execution
My wife, a fan of Mr Kombius' music, picked this up the other day but is easily distracted so I read it first, being intruiged by the title, blurb, and jacket picture. Alas, don't judge a book by its cover, because by half-way through this fairly short volume (I read it in a single sitting of a couple of hours) I was utterly bored. The idea is nice (and the introduction is _excellent_ - easily the funniest part of the book), but there's really only one joke, which is "hey, this God guy isn't really in control and has problems like the rest of us". (Also, I realise it's bad form to quibble over technicalities in a supposedly humourous book, but it annoyed me that Mr Kombuis seems to have no idea that the God of the Jews and Christians is in fact the same entity that Muslims worship. Anyway...) The book kept reminding me of parts of Julian Barnes' "A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters", and of Bo Fowler's "Scepticism Inc.", with some of the cartoonish "Gods only exist if people believe in them" device that Terry Pratchett is fond of bandying around, only without being as well executed. So, I guess it kept me mildly entertained for a few hours, but certainly didn't live up to my hopes of what the book could be. Which, given the last sentence of the book, is a little ironic. ;-)