M. G. Wilson's profile

Decent Coupland, but not exceptional, 6 Dec 2008

Decent Coupland but not exceptional, which is to say that it's still pretty good by anyone else's standards. If you know you already like Coupland, worth reading, if you don't know, this wouldn't be the place to start.

Fails to deliver, 3 Dec 2008

'There are many books about Jesus. But few attempt to tell us what he was actually like.' So says the blurb. Which would make a great book. But unfortunately, this is not that book. It's not a bad book as such - it's a solid middle of the road account of who Jesus was, what he did and what he said, but such books are not uncommon. O'Collins raises interesting questions: "what must Jesus have been like if he came up with these stories?" for example. But ultimately he fails to provide any answers.

In another universe this is a better book, 30 Nov 2008

As other reviewers have remarked the high count of Portuguese words, real and invented, makes this tough to read, but the real problem is that story is just not as gripping as it should be (or rather that all three story lines are not gripping all of the time) and that the plot twist, when it comes, at the story's resolution is highly derivative, one part Dallas and one part The Matrix. Yes it was all a dream. In fact everything is a dream. Multiverse, quantum reality, the lot.