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  <title><![CDATA[Towing Jehovah (Harvest Book)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;God is dead, and Anthony Van Horne must tow the corpse to the Arctic (to preserve Him from sharks and decomposition). En route Van Horne must also contend with ecological guilt, a militant girlfriend, sabotage both natural and spiritual, and greedy hucksters of oil, condoms, and doubtful ideas. Winner of a 1995 World Fantasy Award.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1993</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[James Morrow]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[God is dead, and his two-mile long corpse is floating in the Atlantic, right around the equator.  Anthony van Horne, a disgraced oil tanker captain is tapped by the Vatican to haul God's body up to the North Pole, where the grieving angels have prepared a cave for his internment and preservation.  V...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16780896">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been reading Morrow's fanciful trilogy out of order: I began with The Eternal Footman (the third book), and followed that with Towing Jehovah (the first), now I just have the second, Blameless in Abaddon, left to read. <br/><br/>I thought Towing Jehovah to be a superior novel to The Eternal F...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15853534">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Sep 05 07:44:14 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 06 04:53:26 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought Towing Jehovah about a year ago, but hadn't gotten around to reading it until now. I wish I hadn't waited!<br/><br/>A tanker captain -- riddled with guilt about his involvement in a serious oil spill -- is approached by the Angel Gabriel to take on the job of salvaging God's dead body (wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5702118">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Apr 28 13:06:11 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Apr 29 09:33:14 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yesterday at work, I got an ILL request for this book.  The title did not ring any mental bells.  I pulled the book from the shelf.  No mental bells rang.  It wasn't until I was checking the book out to the borrowing library that I looked at the cover and heard the faintest mental ding.  The illustr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21187061">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17373248">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[un-stuffed shirts]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[christopher moore]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun Mar 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Mar 09 10:38:52 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 09 11:08:34 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, I liked this one a lot.  Not for those who take their religion too seriously.  Not for those who have a limited sense of whimsy or the absurd.<br/><br/>I skipped over or skimmed the re-enactment 'chapters' most of the time (that plotline didn't interest me until the end).  I <em>could</em> put the book...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17373248">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40582698">
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  <date_added>Sun Dec 21 06:21:58 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Dec 21 06:25:09 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[By the time I’d finished this book, Morrow had become one of my favorite writers.  The philosophy he espouses in his writings is perfectly in tune with my own.  He’s a champion of rationality, and I wish not only that there were more like him, but that they also had a more visible platform from ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40582698">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28435008">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jim]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[People who think blasphemy can be funny and insightful.]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Sun Jul 27 12:27:33 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jul 27 12:59:08 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the mid-nineties, I managed to go two years without reading a book that was not related to my classwork.  This book got me out of that rut, and I've never gone back in since.  Towing Jehovah is delightfully irreverent (wait until you see what happens when they run out of food), and thought-provok...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28435008">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="25322972">
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    <name><![CDATA[Christian]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I came to this with the wrong expectations. It's pretty light on the theology in favor of some Pythonesque absurd humor, which of course would please most folks. I enjoyed it but coming in the midst of the dark 900 pg doorstoppers I seem to be specializing in these days I was not in the best...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25322972">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70309267">
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Sep 06 20:11:47 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 08 19:16:00 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good book for a Religious Themes in Science Fiction-type course. What if Nietzsche's famous statement that &quot;God is dead&quot; was literally true? What if the Creator --- the two-mile tall, bearded, bephallused, vertebrate, bipedal Creator --- died of unknown causes and plunged into the sea? Wou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70309267">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4536740">
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    <name><![CDATA[Peggy]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Aug 14 10:48:01 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[God is dead (we know this because His 2 mile-long body is floating in the ocean). Before all of the angels die of grief, they hire a disgraced tanker captain to tow the body into the Arctic Sea so it won’t rot.  Funny, satirical, and thought-provoking, Morrow’s book reminds me of Vonnegut, altho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4536740">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37948373">
    <user id="1443926">
    <name><![CDATA[Eris_discordia]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Nov 17 09:26:05 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Nov 25 12:14:26 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The last James Morrow book I read was just pure gleeful blasphemy. This one is still fairly blasphemous, but it also asks a serious question: What would people do if they had concrete, smelly proof that God was 1) a corporeal being and 2) currently dead? Morrow shows the reactions of all types of pe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37948373">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38300744">
    <user id="30264">
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  <date_added>Fri Nov 21 07:14:38 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 21 07:24:18 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[James Morrow has a way in all of his books of displaying heresy as divinity. That nothing is as sacred as comedy or interpretation.<br/>Taken on a journey with a burnt out oil tanker captain hired by the Vatican, who were hired by the last of the dying angels, to haul the 2 mile long corpse of God ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38300744">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63894193">
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  <date_added>Fri Jul 17 14:05:02 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was ultimately disappointing due to its formulaic ending.  The concept was awesome, and most of the imagery was really well-crafted.  I personally felt like in terms of the story it might as well have been a romance novel.  The character development was not on par with the imagery or concept of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63894193">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57578700">
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    <name><![CDATA[Molly]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[What happens if god dies (and falls into the ocean)?  Well, the religious people want to cover it up because, well, god is dead.  And the atheists want to cover it up because they've been wrong this whole time.  And angels start molting, and someone has to figure out what to do when the body starts ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57578700">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48826682">
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    <name><![CDATA[Roxanne]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has a bit of an absurdist tone, I think, a little bit like Tom Robbins's <u>Jitterbug Perfume</u> or Flann O'Brien's <u>At Swim-Two-Birds</u>.  I liked those books more--in those books, the tone and the writing style are really entertaining and keep you engaged with the book.  In <u>Towing Jehovah</u>, it was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48826682">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15235280">
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    <body><![CDATA[no spoilers, but here's a synopsis<br/><br/>First:  I would definitely recommend this book to anyone! Okay...maybe not to devout Christians or Catholics -- they might be a little upset with the satire. However, if you find yourself with an open mind, do read this book. You will NOT be disappointed...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15235280">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6578909">
    <user id="398992">
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