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A review by giantarms
Beware of God: Stories by Shalom Auslander
4.0
These stories are razors. There is one about what happens to you if you discover new information about the holiest of Books. There is one about what happens when fundamentalism comes to Charlie Brown's neighborhood. There is one in which consciousness is bestowed upon a chimpanzee and all he gets out of it is poop. There is one that portrays God as a put-upon balancer of life and another one that portrays God as a chicken (not as in "yellow," but as in "buck-buck-ba-caw").
Auslander's head is damaged, scary place, but I found it full of cunning, moving allegory.
Don't listen to the people who say you can't get this book if you aren't Jewish. I'm not Jewish. I got a lot out of it. What's more, the writing is crisp and smooth without seeming like he's trying too hard. Auslander clearly builds from his upbringing, but he is his own author. I read the whole book in a day and I don't even care that much for short stories.
It's the next day and I'm already a quarter through [b:Foreskin's Lament|50902|Foreskin's Lament|Shalom Auslander|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1266459769s/50902.jpg|610736]. You can see they are related. I imagine these are the stories he keeps deleting in the latter book.
Auslander's head is damaged, scary place, but I found it full of cunning, moving allegory.
Don't listen to the people who say you can't get this book if you aren't Jewish. I'm not Jewish. I got a lot out of it. What's more, the writing is crisp and smooth without seeming like he's trying too hard. Auslander clearly builds from his upbringing, but he is his own author. I read the whole book in a day and I don't even care that much for short stories.
It's the next day and I'm already a quarter through [b:Foreskin's Lament|50902|Foreskin's Lament|Shalom Auslander|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1266459769s/50902.jpg|610736]. You can see they are related. I imagine these are the stories he keeps deleting in the latter book.