A Flavour of the Book: “It wasn’t anything
like the old days though; all you had to do then was chuck a few people in the
river, shout your mouth off a bit and that was it – thirty thousand Jews
following you around the place. No
problem. Here, if you weren’t on the
television or shagging some Royal or something, you didn’t have a hope…”
The Authortrek View: God’s Game is
Erik Ryman’s riotous first novel. As Erik Ryman writes in the introduction, the
novel is very much “an exercise in the random and the chaotic”, so readers of
Ryman’s second novel, Doctor Mooze,
may be surprised by the lack of a coherent narrative, with flashes forward and
back in time. However, a lot of the
novel is bang up to date, especially with regards to Virtual Reality, a concept
that Ryman liberally plays with, and there are several strong characters
running through the chaos. Erik Ryman
presents us with a very humanised, albeit very slobby, Jesus and God, along
with a rather ineffectual John the Baptist, a Morrissey cameo, and a pair of
lesbians with conspiracy to murder in their minds… While God’s Game is
undoubtedly very energetic, with Ryman flexing all his literary muscles, it
also feels too much like the eponymous ‘first novel’, as much of it is very
self-indulgent.
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