A review by quercus707
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago

3.0

Actually a 3.5 star book, but I couldn't quite bring myself to round up. Brilliantly imagined life of Jesus, very rich in detail. For the first half of the book, there was really no supernatural aspect to the story at all, and this part really grabbed me. A later section read like Dostoyevsky's The Grand Inquisitor, and I liked this part, too. A little disappointing in that it spent a lot of time on the early years, but then seemed like it kind of rushed through the conclusion, and ended abruptly. I wished he had taken the time to develop the story more fully.