Marcus Brigstocke

I am a huge fan of Marcus Brigstocke's stand-up and radio work, so I pre-ordered this book on Kindle and looked forward to the day it was released. Unbelievably, I can't stand it! What comes across as funny in short monologues in book form is contrived, ranty and downright blah. The tenuous theme of the book - Brigstocke doesn't believe in God but wishes he did - is strayed from so often you wish he had just titled it 'my best comedy routines, in written form' and been honest about it. I show more really wanted to like this book but just didn't. What a shame. show less

@marcusbrig rambles a bit, well quite a lot actually. The one thing that would have really improved this book would have been cutting it by a third.

That said however it is a painful but witty rummage through his mind around the theme of "I'm not sure there is a God and I don't really want to believe in the common ones as they're horrible but I'd like to believe in a God somewhere somehow".

In many ways it summarises all the ambivalence about not being sure what to believe in. Having had such show more a number of books saying that there is no god, it's quite refreshing to have someone talk about their uncertainty. show less

The author is a comedian, and the book is very funny and irreverent, but with an underlying serious theme. He calls himself a reluctant atheist who would really like to find a God to believe in.

We saw him do the live performance of this. The book is poignant, funny and sad in parts. Well worth a read.