Shall We Gather at the Garden?: Amazon.ca: Kevin L. Donihe: Books

Most novels make me feel as if their main characters are taking many long, tedious, and uneventful bus trips to get to and from the interesting parts in their story. This often causes me to skim and ask myself why I'm wasting my time.

"Shall We Gather in the Garden?" doesn't fall under this category. It is an example of condensed storytelling at its best and never fails to entertain, induce laughter, and thrill with its imagination. It's the sort of book that you can start reading at any random page and still get a kick out of it.

I read the ebook edition, and it was even able to hold the attention of my bleeding eyes.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Absurdity when considered one of the fine arts, Feb 4 2004

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John Sunseri (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shall We Gather at the Garden? (Paperback)

How many artists can get away with true absurdity? Borges, Marquez, Dali, Terry Gilliam...and now Donihe. He understands the rules of surreality (and, oh yes, it has rules) and brilliantly follows them to create a work of lasting impact. A stunning (and the adjective here is used in the hit-over-the-head-with-a-blunt-object sense) romp through space and time, a fierce examination of culture in all its facets, and a blindingly funny attack on all the things that make humanity less than human, this book will stay with you...even if you don't want it to. Here there be dwarves, and spatial displacement devices, and doughnut shops and the Church of The Byrds, and one very insistent Karma Wheel, and a Garden and a Pit, and it all blends together like a graveyard sno-cone to explode against your taste buds - while barbed chains come out your throat. Read it. If you like being challenged, and if you have a working brain, you need to read this. If not, stick with television - it doesn't hurt so much.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Shall We Gather at the Garden?, July 31 2003

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I love wild comedies. This religious parody reminds me of Monty Python...also deep and poignant in it's way...those adorable midgets will remain in my subconcious...Rose Solar

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