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    Good to Be God
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    Good to Be God
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    Good to Be God

    By Tibor Fischer

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    A darkly hilarious tale of a perennially unlucky man who, in anything-goes Miami, commits to the ultimate stolen identity scheme—playing God Using the credit card and identity of a handcuff salesman, professional failure Tyndale Corbett arrives in Miami for a law enforcement conference to discover the joys of luxury hotels and above all the delight of being someone else, someone successful. Feeling his previous lack of success might be due to insufficient ambition, Tyndale decides on a new money-making scheme. He will up the ante substantially and exponentially, and pretend to be someone really important and successful—God. His mission to convince the citizenry of Miami that he is, despite appearances, the Supreme Being, results in him taking over the Church of the Heavily Armed Christ. His duties there involve him in forming a private army, hiring call girls, trafficking coke, issuing death threats, beating off church-jackers, and sorting out (as almightily as possible) various problems his parishioners are having with pets. All the while he is working on his grand project, the clincher miracle—dying and coming back to life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlma Books
    Release dateApr 1, 2012
    ISBN9781846881053
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    • 4/5
      Fischer is at it again, with a protagonist who is at the same time very normal (he is a 40-something guy who lost his job and has seen his life peter out to failure) and hilariously non-normal. As non normal as only Fischer can make him (his solution to his problems? Flee to America and become God). It's difficult to judge Fischer's books and build a "scale". Is this better than "The Thought Gang"? Or is it more or less the same except that you can't outdo yourself every time, so your first books are always "better" because they weren't already part of a series?Anyway, pretty funny, as usual, and at the same time tragic and wise. I really love this author even if every time I put down one of his books, I long for "Under The Frog", which was slightly less incredible, and therefore a bit more... human?
    • 3/5
      I usually love tibor's books. This one, not so much. Started out promising, and in usual tibor way - odd. But then sort of fell into a dud.