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Title: Second Rate Iconoclast
Review: This is pretty pale stuff when compared to James Morrow's brilliant Towing Jehovah or Bible Stories for Adults, two iconoclastic masterpieces. The author of Last Day bludgeons the reader with a elementary interpretation of the bible and open disgust for the "sacred". Morrow confronts organized religion with wit and intelligence, qualities absent in this novel. Where Morrow offers insight into Religious beliefs, this author offers very little. Morrow is a genious at exposing hypocrisy with wit, subtlety, and sheer guts, cutting to the sanctimonious bone. This author delivers a few bruises, but lacks the heart and soul of the great iconoclast. This is a loooong sermon against the church, without the style and talent for stepping on clay feet which Morrow demonstrates consistently. It's the difference between a skilled surgeon and an apprentice butcher.
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