Live from Golgotha
When network executives travel back in time in order to broadcast the crucifixion of Christ, they find their plans complicated by a cyberpunk hacker intent on erasing Christianity with a computer virus. By the author of Myra Breckenridge. 75,000 first printing. Tour.
When network executives travel back in time in order to broadcast the crucifixion of Christ, they find their plans complicated by a cyberpunk hacker intent on erasing Christianity with a computer virus. By the author of Myra Breckenridge. 75,000 first printing. Tour.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780679416111 (0679416110)
Publish date: September 1st 1992
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Pages no: 232
Edition language: English
My writing professor in college knew Gore Vidal, so I picked up this title based on his general endorsement. I picked the wrong Vidal book as my first. This is a ridiculous story; meant as satire, but it comes off like a bad Monty Python skit.
Vidal is devilishly clever (pun intended, though, irreverently withdrawn...) with this book, a postmodern, post-theist, post-omni masterpiece that has its slow points where it gets a little clever for its own good (perhaps intentionly). I forgive him, though like a Judas must, I still remove a star....
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