"Only controversial once made into a film, this beautiful and poetic work deals with the gap between 'truth' and myth and whether, once acted upon belief, such definitions matter."
"Dante only comes after Milton because his vision, in scriptural terms, is more fantastical. And all this for a woman and revenge over your enemies! What better motivation for writing scripture?"
"A strange and disconcerting novel that turns the Gospel stories on their head. In huge, sweeping paragraphs and circuitous sentences, this wonderful psychodrama is simultaneously strange and familiar."
"John Steinbeck's classic re-imagining of the Fall of Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel's bloody rivalry, transported to California. No writer has done better in making the modern world feel mythical."
"The most accessible of four volumes, Book is perhaps the most successful attempt to bring the Bible into the post-modern world, pairing the Jesus story with later apocalyptic writing"
"Witty, profound, accurately observed. Well, it is Mark Twain! What tenderer depiction is there of a long-surviving marriage, than Twain's Adam and Eve?"
"The intention was to keep this list to the fictional, however fiction is dealing less with the Bible and religion, because non-fiction has moved in. This is the most famous example. Passionate stuff."
