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The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson (view source)
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|publisher=Penguin Books Ltd
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|comment= Although it also took me a while to get into the book, once I did I couldn't put it down! I was also a bit disappointed that the devil didn't play a bigger part and was also disappointed by the ending as I feel it didn't answer enough questions for me. I was also a little confused by the last few paragraphs, I feel like I must be missing something!
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|comment= "reminded of Iain Banks' The Crow Road, not in terms of characters but as a general vibe that I couldn't quite put my finger on"...erm, Scottishness, perhaps???
I have just read that and I have to say that the blurb does the book a big disservice, selling it as some kind of a cult novel. Which it ain't and because of it, it'll be read by many people who will, to large extent, miss the point, which is quite sad as it's a good novel, which would probably get a four-star rating from me.
Not a "cult book" by any means, but one addressing all kinds of concerns; about personal faith and organised religion, belief and convention, hypocrisy and living a lie and whether it mattered, being true to yourself (and what it actually means), fabrication and myth, death of God and the weariness of the devil, confronting yopur own immortality, faith and faithlessness; combined with a convincing cultural background of a small Scottish town of the East coast.
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