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God is dead and his corpse is floating somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The angels choose a disgraced ship captain to lead a disparate crew on a secret mission to tow the holy vessel to a final resting place in the arctic circle. Weirdness ensues.

It started out good – the writing is pretty great and the weird was a good weird. But then is just…stayed…weird…with no real dynamics. And the characters were more annoying than eccentric. So, in the end, sort of disappointing. ( )

Some hilarious moments, a few good characters, definitely a gripping beach read. All that said, a bit too obvious for such a wonderful premise. ( )

Some hilarious moments, a few good characters, definitely a gripping beach read. All that said, a bit too obvious for such a wonderful premise. ( )

When I sought out this novel about God's corpse being towed across the ocean by a disgraced oil rig captain, I was expecting a hilarious farce along the lines of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's series, playing fast and loose with religious beliefs. Not so, I found, as the humor was much more dark and subtle, and nowhere near as zany as the subject matter would suggest. Not laugh out loud funny, but rather a sly and knowledgeable humor, a wink and a nudge, say no more. But this wasn't a disappointment, for what I found that Morrow handled successfully was the motivations behind both blind faith and lack thereof. Devout Christians and Atheists are represented at their most extreme, both rational and irrational, and neither side is truly taken by Morrow in his endeavor to explore God's true nature, both in reality and our mind's eye. Its not a comedy as much as it is a thinking-man's comedy of errors, and that's the best way I can think to recommend it.