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

1.0

I should have put it down. Everyone told me I could put it down. Not sure I've ever actually finished a book that I disliked as much as this one. I tried to read it as a piece of fiction literature and not a work of theology, bc it obviously was intended as a piece of fiction literature, but when you put a man name Jesus in a place called Nazareth and surround him with people named Mary, Peter and John I couldn't help myself. BUT, that is about where the similarities end! Mary Magdalene a prostitute AND the sister of Martha and Lazarus AND Jesus's lover? Jesus hanging out as a shepherd for four years with Satan? God making mistakes? Every single page had me riled. I should have put it down.