- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (28 Oct 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140231196
- ISBN-13: 978-0140231199
- Product Dimensions: 13.1 x 1.5 x 19.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,566,754 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Timothy (later St. Timothy) is in his study in Thessalonika, where he is bishop of Macedonia. It is A.D. 96, and Timothy is under terrific pressure to record his version of the Sacred Story, since, far in the future, a cyberpunk (the Hacker) has been systematically destroying the tapes that describe the Good News, and Timothy's Gospel is the only one immune to the Hacker's deadly virus. Meanwhile, thanks to a breakthrough in computer software, an NBC crew is racing into the past to capture - live from the suburb of Golgotha - the Crucifixion, for a TV special guaranteed to boost the network's ratings in the fall sweeps. As a stream of visitors from twentieth-century America channel in to the first-century Holy Land - Mary Baker Eddy, Shirley MacLaine, Oral Roberts and family - Timothy struggles to complete his story. But is Timothy's text really Hacker-proof? And how will he deal with the truth about Jesus' eating disorder? Above all, will he get the anchor slot for the Big Show at Golgotha without representation by a major agency, like CAA 1,896 years in the future? Tune in.
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Format:Paperback
While reading this odd book, it's difficult to think of Vidal as a serious writer. The writing is sloppy, one cliche after another; and at times it's incomprehensible, as if he just set it down and didn't even bother to read his own work. The idea of a comic novel about Jesus is certainly a good one; but this is not it. The book is just plain awful, like a joke someone tells and gets no laughs but continues to embellish it, and the whole thing becomes sillier and sillier and still the joker continues on and on.
Format:Paperback
I was quite taken at the start by both the idea and the muscular tone, but very quickly the jokes started to repeat themselves and descend into shoolboy humour.
All in all it is very disappointing and 100 pages too long.
All in all it is very disappointing and 100 pages too long.
Format:Paperback
A great book! I'm sure a lot of people would find it blasphemous and insulting, but I have never seen such a clever satire of all religions taken together. The only drawback is that sometimes it's hard to follow the story. Other than that, I loved the unexpected twists and turns and mockery of the religious Establishment.
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Brilliant idea drowning in american controversialism
The idea of the plot in "Live From Golgotha" is so simple it's genius: the battle about transmitting live from the crucifixion of Jesus. Read more
Published on 5 Feb 1999
Big letdown from Vidal
Why Gore Vidal, one of our greatest writers, would waste his time on this sophomoric exercise in tedious blasphemy, is beyond me. It isn't funny and strains to be blasphemous. Read more
Published on 24 April 1998
Nothing is sacred
At some point, Vidal must have started with refreshingly plausible Jesus, Pilate, and Paul figures, and where he could have written a good but fairly ordinary novel from that... Read more
Published on 24 Oct 1997
non-stop fun
This books gives a fresh outlook on Christianity, fat people and the space-time continuum. If you like jokes about everything that is supposed to be sacred and know your science... Read more
Published on 26 Sep 1996
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