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Godless
 

Godless

by Pete Hautman

"Why mess around with Catholicism when you can have your own customized religion?"
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.... (read more)

Top tags: young adult,  religion,  fiction,  coming of age,  cults (all tags)

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GeniusJen
  • Rated 5 stars

“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 everything that is both bad and good about organized religion--it is, in effect, an entreaty to the leaders of religions around the world to look at how blind faith funds their coffers.

Yes, maybe I'm reading more into the book than the...”

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Didn’t Like It

Ruben F
  • Rated 2 stars

“I thought that the book Godless was a very weird book. In the beginning a group of kids thought that a water tower was a god when one of the kids thought that he got water from the water tower. The book became even lamer to me when I read that the kids decided to form a new religion and that made me think that they were way too religious. Although the group started their own religion, they started to have some problems and trust issues because some of the kids were fighting over their...”

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Community:
  • Rated 3.914894 stars
Amazon:
  • Rated 4.5 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • rosieposie62

    rosieposie62 said:

    “This is an amazing book, i thought!”

    posted Monday, April 7 2008
  • joseph m

    joseph m said:

    “it is an alright book
    it is very real but only semi-interesting
    but after i had o[nly 50 pages left
    i saw why everyone liked it
    the ending was not only real
    and something i have seen before
    it just seemed to come together correctly
    as if the auther had written the ending before the story
    4.5/5”

    posted Monday, March 24 2008
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