false 4043 3 Fed up with his parents' boring old religion, agnostic-going-on-atheist Jason Bock invents a new god -- the town's water tower. He recruits an unlikely group of worshippers: his snail-farming best friend, Shin, cute-as-a-button (whatever that means) Magda Price, and the violent and unpredictable Henry Stagg. As their religion grows, it takes on a life of its own. While Jason struggles to keep the faith pure, Shin obsesses over writing their bible, and the explosive Henry schemes to make the new faith even more exciting -- and dangerous. When the Chutengodians hold their first ceremony high atop the dome of the water tower, things quickly go from merely dangerous to terrifying and deadly. Jason soon realizes that inventing a religion is a lot easier than controlling it, but control it he must, before his creation destroys both his friends and himself. 963228 25 10 2005 Godless total:635|5:135|4:221|3:210|2:57|1:12| 635 2315 905 145 5 1 false false Mon May 05 02:06:58 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 02:07:13 -0700 2008
There is a reason that GODLESS won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, and I don't believe it's because author Pete Hautman wrote a book he intended to be satire, as other reviews have suggested. To me, GODLESS is the epitome of every...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 12 16:06:53 -0800 2007 Tue Jan 15 16:30:46 -0800 2008 Jason (main character) decides he no longer wishes to be Catholic like his parents and decides to create his own religion, Chutengodianism, a.k.a to worship the town's water tower. Al...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 01 08:06:44 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 03 10:30:22 -0700 2007
The book doesn't necessaril...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 15:37:10 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 16:16:00 -0700 2009 1 But with the new 7th graders looking eagerly for books they'll enjoy, and in addition to this amazing new book I read, well, I just had to review this one.
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Fed up with his parents’ boring old religion, agnostic-going-on-atheist Jason Bock invents a new god—the town’s water tower. He recruits an unlikely group of worthippers; his snail-farming best friend, Shin, cute-as-a-button (whatever t...more...]]> 3 2 false false Wed Jun 11 14:44:27 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 14:47:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false true Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 19:29:44 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 19:34:14 -0800 2009
Jason is a sixteen-year-old kid who proclaims himself as an agnostic-gone-atheist. Bored with Catholicism, he decides to start his own religion--a religion that worships a water tower. Through no real persuasive power, he convinces several other teenagers to join, and things so...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 11 11:58:49 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 12:06:46 -0800 2009 Faith/Religion/Belonging

Jason Bock is disillusioned by his parent's Catholic religion, especially since they make him sit in on youth meetings. Jason is an atheist, but soon come across a wild idea. He should make his own religion. So he creates the Church of...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 08:28:03 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 09:00:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 10 12:53:32 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 13:09:34 -0800 2008
In Godless, Pete Hautman used his character Jason Bock to illustrate his philosophy, “[in a book] what you see is somebody's idea of reality.” But sit down with a stack of student journals, and one would notice that dealing with faith and ...more...]]> 5 0 false true Tue Dec 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 11:04:42 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 16:59:51 -0800 2008 here ) I like this approach...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 20:38:05 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 22:24:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 11:24:11 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 11:27:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 09:53:26 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 11:21:51 -0700 2009
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