The Second Coming

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As for the golf…. I don’t think I’ve ever been so invested in a game in my puff! It was gripping and clever and added a different dimension to the book that I haven’t seen from many. It made me appreciate how someone might love the game where I hate it; without being overly golf tastic! Nonetheless, he is reborn as a thirty-one-year-old JC, “a struggling musician in New York City helping people as best as he can.” At first, he ministers to the dispossessed around him one by one, gaining followers who range from addicts to the mentally ill, to a homeless Vietnam War vet, to a young gay man living with HIV whom JC saves from “the clutches of a group of religious nuts who consider him an abomination.” Soon, though, JC realizes that he needs a bigger stage from which to spread the Be Nice message – maybe the national stage of a popular TV talent show called “American Pop Star” (a riff on real-life shows like “American Idol”). Ow! That language! How horrible was that for me - English is not my first nor my second language, so you can imagine... I needed to do an effort during the first chapters. Then I got used to the language many of the characters use: low-class AND Scottish, that gives me a double... handicap in reading English. Ho trovato il libro irriverente al punto giusto, senza esagerare, ma soprattutto l’ho trovato molto profondo.

Così decide di rimandare suo figlio a sensibilizzare di nuovo l’uomo, come ultima soluzione prima dello sterminio di massa così come suggerito da qualcuno dei suoi per risolvere il problema.There is underneath it all a very human story about the whole point being Be Nice; nice involving justice, equality and fairness for all; oh, and lots of weed to smoke.

Ma il novello Gesù, ritornato sulla terra, è irresistibile; impossibile, anche per un non credente come me, non volergli bene. Funny, dark, scabrous, irreligious, caustic and cutting - and also warm and wise, this book undercuts the rotten foundations of much of today's culture and community. Wie schön könnte doch das Leben sein, wenn wir alle nach dem Grundsatz "seit nett zueinander" leben würden und nicht immer dem Geld, der Macht und dem Ruhm nachrennen würden ? Es gibt in dem Buch durchaus einige Stellen die den Leser auch zum Nachdenken anregen und immer genau ins Schwarze treffen. Soon Gary is the talk of the clubhouse as he wins the monthly tournament - though the image on the front of the papers is him, ahem, taking himself in hand, on the 18th green at the moment of victory. They were complaining about that one in the clubhouse I fear. Dennoch, JC versucht das einzige Gebot seine Vaters "Be nice" d.h. "seit nett" zu leben (Moses hat daraus eigenmächtig die heute bekannten 10 Gebote gemacht, dieser A....) und findet langsam aber sicher ein paar Freunde. Um etwas schneller zum Ziel zu kommen beschließt JC an einer Talentshow a la DSDS teilzunehmen.

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An atheist and a republican, Niven refuses to sing " God Save the Queen" on ideological grounds. [ citation needed] Bibliography [ edit ] Another narrative arc has pikey brother Lee going for a big drug deal, but he totally screws it up, and is on the run for his life from the local Mr Big, a man who thinks nothing of administering brutal, messy and very bloody justice to those that have wronged him. Assistiamo dunque al ritorno di Gesù sulla Terra, dopo che Dio, tornata da qualche giorno di vacanza che si è finalmente concesso durante il Rinascimento, trova la Terra devastata da inquinamento, genocidi, violenze e barbarie varie. Perché la sua breve vacanza equivale a 5 secoli di vita terrestre! Find sources: "John Niven"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( June 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Storicamente condivido che la religione cattolica anche abbia usato la supremazia spirituale di preti, vescovi e Papi per fondare, come in altri ambiti, il controllo di pochi sulla moltitudine, ma non credo che oggi sia più questo e nè che il discorso sia generalizzabile per questo motivo a qualsiasi Papa.

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Satan has a similar businessman vibe – he is like “the boss of an opposing company.” However, while Niven’s Heaven dispenses with familiar imagery, his Hell is as literal as possible, a cross between Dante and Bosch where gruesomely ironic physical torture is standard daily fare. Here, homophobes experience endless anal rape while Hitler works as a waiter in a Jewish restaurant. It is peopled by fundamentalists, politicians, and investment bankers; the punishment of the founder of the KKK is so disturbing that even Satan won’t reveal its details. Il primo è stato "il Maialino di Natale" di J.K.Rowling, che mi è piaciuto moltissimo, e poi questo. Meanwhile Pauline and Masterson have hit upon a plan to help him avoid a ruinously expensive divorce. It's the kind of plan that ends with a funeral. Their stories converge as the two brothers stumble into uncharted territory - Lee towards murder and Gary teeing it up with his golfing hero, Calvin Linklater, the world number one, in the Open Championship... Book review: The Sunshine Cruise Company by John Niven". The Independent. 13 August 2015. Archived from the original on 13 June 2022 . Retrieved 25 January 2019. Come i sacerdoti ebrei allora, oggi sono i preti cattolici i suoi peggiori nemici, quelli che per eccesso di zelo, si dimostrano i migliori aiutanti del male.