- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Paperbacks (Oct 7 1993)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0140231196
- ISBN-13: 978-0140231199
- Product Dimensions: 13.1 x 1.5 x 19.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 227 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,558,047 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Twentieth-century television networks compete murderously for exclusive rights to broadcast the Crucifixion, in an irreverent assault on religious, sexual, and commercial mores by the author of Lincoln. Reprint. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo. NYT.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
My sides are *still* splitting,
By Kieri "Kieri" (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Live From Golgotha (Paperback)
Take a tap-dancing St. Paul ("Solly"), an enormously fat Jesus, a rather mercenary St. Timothy, and a whole lot of Time-Travel, and you get this hysterical book.'I agree with soem of the previous reviewers: this book is indeed a bit confusing, but really, only if you don't follow it all the way to the end. If you pay close attention--this is totally one of those books that you have to think about all the way through--you won't get lost, and you will definately enjoy this little cyberpunk-mmets-early Christianity romp.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Witty, Irreverent, Wonderful,
By Okla Elliott (Columbus, OH United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Live From Golgotha (Paperback)
Fans of Gore Vidal's novels Kalki, Myra Breckinridge, Myron, and The Smithsonian Institution will love Live From Golgotha. This novel is charged with the same biting critique of religion and religious institutions as we find in Kalki, and it incorporates the playfully sci-fi elements found in The Smithsonian Institution. In short, for Vidal fans, this novel is a must.For those poor souls who have yet to discover Gore Vidal, this is a good introduction. Vidal writes what he calls "inventions" from time to time. These are his metafictional/experimental novels that break from his more famous, and more mainstream, historical novels such as Lincoln and The Golden Age (both of which are wonderful novels). In these inventions, Vidal allows himself to be more playful and unusual. Live From Golgotha reads like a collaborative effort between Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon. Despite the apt comparison to other pop-experimental novelists, Vidal writes originally and, I feel, quite a bit better than Vonnegut, Pynchon, T. C. Boyle, and Tom Robbins. Perhaps it is most impressive that Vidal can write anything, including these "inventions," while the aforementioned authors are limited to that style. It is clear that Vidal knows exactly what he is doing, and that he does well. In this case, he has chosen to tell an alternate story of the Gospels through the point of view of Saint Timothy. Timothy is being bombarded by characters from the future(s) who are trying to coerce him into re-writing scripture with their political and financial concerns in mind. What we end up with is a romp-in-the-sand of a novel that makes you laugh out loud at times and grimace with knowing pain at the cut-throat attitudes present in media, politics, and religion.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hilarious!,
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This review is from: Live From Golgotha (Paperback)
Where to start or, more appropriately, when to start.Okay, hang on 'cause here we go! Judas was crucified instead of Jesus. Jesus is a crackerjack computer programmer. Saint Paul knows Saint Timothy in the biblical sense. Nero sorta learned how to tap dance. Pontius Pilate was firmly on the side of monetary stimulus and by the end of the book you'll understand who Marvin Wasserstein is. Oh, and Rome had a serious problem with bad smells and lead poisoning but was still a great party town. Vidal's book is truly hilarious and will leave you chuckling all the way through. It's the first book of his that I've read and now I'm definitely a fan! He takes the world, turns it upside down, shakes it like a snow globe and lets the flakes fall where they may; things need shaking up every now and then and Vidal does it with style. Easily five stars.
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