Book of Q [Unabridged, Audiobook] [Audio Cassette]

Jonathan Rabb (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2001

11 Tapes

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Books on Tape (2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0736670483
• ISBN-13: 978-0736670487
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,583,949 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Good Solid Mediocre, January 29, 2002

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[e-mail] (Valladolid, Spain) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Book of Q: A Novel (Hardcover)

This really is not that good of a book. It starts out slow, speeds up very well about mid way through, then hits a serious wall when it should be climaxing. We run into old tired wishful thinking that some manuscript is going to bring down the Catholic church. (I am not a Catholic) The amount of time spent on a totally fictitious parchment that the author evidently desperately wishes existed really made finishing the book hard work for me. Jonathan Rabb is not Clancy or Grisham. The good news is that his books are only about half as long as theirs are.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars here we go again, October 10, 2001

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Donald J. French (New Haven, CT USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Book of Q: A Novel (Hardcover)

Another rehash of the "priest-who-finds-document-which-will-change-the world" theme. Some of it was interesting, but the ending when an unearthed document has Christ speaking the most politically correct utterances ever...well, it was too much! Can someone write something original about "unearthed documents"?

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Read this for fun, not Enlightment, June 26, 2001

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Andy Edie (Kansas City, Missouri) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Book of Q: A Novel (Hardcover)

This book is a thriller/adventure book. Of course, that is my opinion. It is not a historical mystery or historical thriller. It is not a revelation on the true word of Christ; however, it is a small diatribe on the institution of the Catholic Church. Again, this is only my opinion.

My point being, if you like the thriller or adventure genres, then you might find this book to your liking. If you are considering this book because you find the history of the church or scriptures interesting, or you are looking to find a new, different view of the Bible, look elsewhere.

The story centers on a young priest, Ian Pearse, who gets caught up in a quest to find an ancient scroll. The Manicheans, a secret society of a Faith long thought destroyed by the Catholic Church, desperately want to find the scroll so that they may, in turn, destroy the Catholic Church with its revelations on the true word of Christ.

'The Book of Q' is, at points, far-fetched and contrived. But, hey, this IS fiction. My biggest complaint is the unnecessary detail Rabb uses in his descriptions of the various locales used in the book. Without providing maps to reference, his use of exact street names, as well as exact landmarks, often ends up being frustrating, and distracts from the story. Unless, of course, you have actually been to Vatican City and the other places described in the book.

Read this book for the adventure and suspense, not for theological extrapolations.