Talk About God & Other Stories

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Pub Date Apr 01 2016 | Archive Date Oct 11 2016

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The near-death experience of an atheist makes him re-evaluate his life. Students are taught how idiotic philosophy can be. Recruits in a boot camp go through tough training exercises to become an elite cadre of readers. A self-made billionaire offers a free course on inner peace. An academic abandons his two kids and meets them as adults. A chef uses his TV cooking show to re-connect with his family. Aspiring writers learn their craft from a ghost. Where Playing To Win was about the joy and agony of competition, Talk About God offers an eclectic variety of stories that are at once thought-provoking and whimsical, with a touch of the incongruous and the absurd.

The near-death experience of an atheist makes him re-evaluate his life. Students are taught how idiotic philosophy can be. Recruits in a boot camp go through tough training exercises to become an...


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ISBN 9781771830621
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This book reminded me of a little bit of "God's Not Dead" or other stories like that. I really liked how each story was different, but they all had great messages that went along with the story.

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I like this book. It’s not every day I can open a book of short fiction and find what reads like the transcript of an undergraduate philosophy seminar. Some readers might not enjoy the story Philosophy for Idiots for that reason, but I did. Equally, The Wager feels like a lecture on “A Course in Miracles” and, as a vignette on the differences between thinking about spirituality and its practice, it succeeds very well I think. As a short story, though, I can’t help wondering whether some careful editing might have improved the narrative. The title story Talk About God is, in my opinion, the best in the collection. This has as much to with my love of metaphysics as the tale itself. It is a fine miniature modern take on a spiritual crisis that, for once, doesn’t pander to the scientific worldview. For that alone, I am thankful to Mr Paci for this thought provoking story.
Reading Boot Camp is a fun beginning to the book and rolls along at a cracking pace. (I did notice that I was reading it on an e-reader!) In an interview, earlier this year, the author said that the book deals with “the art of teaching” and I think that the prose works best when he is teaching, speaking rhetorically, and is able to let the words flow as in the first story.
Thank you for allowing me to read this book which I will recommend to the more philosophically minded of my friends.

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What do they tell these stories? Yeah, because, on closer inspection, they are not stories in the conventional sense of the term. Rather they are short philosophical treatises on different aspects of life, interpersonal relationships, teaching and learning, and much, much more.
Very well written and very entertaining, they have their way, I would say disturbing, to penetrate beneath the skin and reappear suddenly, showing a depth not yet understood, a facet which at first didn't jumped out at you.
Highly recommended.
Thank Guernica Editions and Netgalley for giving me a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

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