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

4.0

I really enjoyed this book, and wished that I had dared to recommend it to our book group at church - but I thought that the sex scenes involving our Lord and Savior might be a bit much for some of the members of the congregation. Regardless, I thought this was completely fascinating, and neat to experience the author's grappling with faith and Christianity. This book gave me a similar impression to the one I got watching Pedro Almodovar's "Dark Habits." (Plot synopsis of the movie if you're short of time: drug-dealing nuns, a tiger, and prostitution.) Basically, when Catholics leave the Church, they _LEAVE_ the Church.