God

Reviews / Votes

'Immensely entertaining, and a sovereign remedy against the absurdities and dangers of religious belief ... funny and whimsical ... clever and perceptive' -- A C Grayling, Literary Review 20020301 'Peculiar and delightful... I loved it. Waugh's light-hearted approach is deceptive: some formidable research has gone into this book' -- Douglas Kennedy, Mail on Sunday 20020217 'A deeply felt and genuine exploration... Waugh's biography is a search for love - and strangely, the god he leaves us with, however impossible, remains attractive.' -- Jeanette Winterson, The Times 20020227 'Ten out of ten for the idea, the approach, the style, the writing - above all, the writing - and the sublime audacity of it all ... Waugh writes like an impious angel; wittily and rivetingly' -- Michael Brown, Yorkshire Post 20020221 'A testimony to human ingenuity and imagination...Waugh's GOD combines philosophical wrangling with the delightfully insolent tone of 1066 AND ALL THAT' -- Christopher Silvester, Financial Times 20020302 '[Waugh's] sardonic, urbane tone is in the tradition of Gibbon or Hume...very funny. Pleasingly original...wherever you stand - or think you do - on the God question, this is a good read' -- Susan Elkin, Independent 20020411 'With mischievous wit and erudition...Waugh's tremendously funny book has, however, a serious purpose' -- S.B.Kelly, Scotland on Sunday 20020224 '[An] erudite, scholarly, irreverent and impeccably researched biography of the supreme being... daringly brilliant and witty treatise' -- George Osgerby, Tribune 20020412 'Colourful, funny, deep and perceptive' -- A.C.Grayling, Independent on Sunday 20020412 'An idiosyncratic, intriguing and often charming book about God' -- Brendan Walsh, The Tablet 20020316