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    <body><![CDATA[Or: Adolescent Jesus as Imagined by a Brilliant Authorial Atheist.<br/><br/>That's unfair and reductive, however. Jose Saramago is an atheist, and the book does explore the parts of Jesus' life that most people pretend didn't exist (early adolescence to just before the time when he knew he had Mes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41870677">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[OK, I have officially given up on this book.  I have 75 pages left, but I just can't do it.  For the last few days, I have picked it up only to put it down again as soon as I read the first sentence five times.  I feel stupid.  This guy is a Nobel Prize winner, so that must mean I'm an idiot if I do...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61940857">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Let me say at the outset that this book will probably be quite a challenge to anyone who holds (and doesn’t want to let go) a very traditional, orthodox reading of the traditional gospels in the Christian Testament.  What Saramago has done here is to IMAGINE a gospel that places at least equal wei...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23695706">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I believe that this novel will ultimately be recognized as the Nobel Prize-winning Saramago's magnum opus (followed ever-so-closely by Blindness). Drawing upon his innate qualities as cynicist, pragmatist and humanist, Saramago deals with a subject that has intrigued so many over the years - the mis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11331626">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As a former Catholic high school student, I started this book fascinated by the idea of the adolescent Jesus, as the gospel covers only a small fraction of Jesus's life (I understand it's not meant to be a play-by-play).  <br/><br/>This book veers off from the Gospel from the get-go, and delves in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6386387">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;guidance&quot;! To me that particular word meant someone to lead you through your path in which you seek. Whether it's finding which direction to enter when your in a rough spot.Some believe in Jesus Christ and some don't. But for me i do. I believe that he has the ability to heal things that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77381922">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA['The Gospel According To Jesus Christ' is, undoubtedly, one of the best books I have ever read. It is written within the wide lines of Saramago's imagination, which always seems to go further and further, amazing us with his unique exploration of themes that meet half way between fiction and reality...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65415686">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[the story of jesus of nazareth told by a committed communist.  i don't know the traditional story in detail, only bits and pieces.  the movie The Last Temptation of Christ by Martin Scorcese is the closest i've come to understanding some more before this book.  much of the story is told with skeptic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55584617">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Excelente obra literária. Uma das prosas mais belas que já encontrei, que é a de Saramago, aqui tendo como plano de fundo a história de Jesus e a vida na Judéia no tempo em que ele viveu. Sabendo que Saramago é um comunista e ateu, já era de se esperar um tom crítico à Igreja Católica, e a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69916651">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not the typical story of Jesus and the holy family (at least not the one I grew up with).  Jesus is more human, than divine.  His story is more about about the ordinary, day to day existence with the joys, sorrows, confusion, etc. of such existence.  The language is steeped in the ordinary, in the e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40706711">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Saramago got excommunicated for this one, which piqued my interest.  Anyone who gets The Vatican swinging the excommunication stick is worth a read.  You've got to love the Catholic Church condemning someone to hell for writing fiction.  Anyway, my only problem with this book is that it's great, jus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80621040">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Unlike any other Saramago I've read, and then again, totally in his style and handled with his usual powerful overseeing narrative style and with his usual deeply considered portrayals of the human experience - but this time it just happens that he has turned his gaze not on an invented &quot;what i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60106407">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Jose Saramago is fast becoming my favorite author, which is really saying something considering I've only read one of his books. I have purchased yet another and cannot wait to read more of this lyrical genius. &quot;The Gospel&quot; is a work that is part of a dying breed: a parable, or human fable...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45057020">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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