GodlessSimon & Schuster
After growing up in a home with a devout Catholic father, Jason Bock decides he wants a different god. But his god is a little unusual. Jason gets his best friend as well as three other schoolmates to join his church of the Ten-Legged One, or water tower. They make their own commandments and their own scripture. But there can be dissenters even in the smallest religious sect. Jason finds himself battling his parents, the community, and his best friend over a belief that he's not even sure he takes serious. What starts out as an innocent summer adventure turns into something that will change Jason's life forever.
WARNING: A few swear words and, obviously, questioning the power and existence of God.
Personal opinion:
When I first started reading, my thoughts ran along the line of "wow this is kinda sacrilege" but after awhile I realized that it really isn't. It was actually interesting to delve into the mind of someone who really questions a religion he's grown up with. Sure, Jason worships a water tower and that is a little weird, but it goes a lot deeper then that. I don't think that Jason was worshipping a water tower, he just didn't want to worship the god that everyone else was. It was interesting and, after mulling it around in my brain for awhile, I actually liked it.
When I first started reading, my thoughts ran along the line of "wow this is kinda sacrilege" but after awhile I realized that it really isn't. It was actually interesting to delve into the mind of someone who really questions a religion he's grown up with. Sure, Jason worships a water tower and that is a little weird, but it goes a lot deeper then that. I don't think that Jason was worshipping a water tower, he just didn't want to worship the god that everyone else was. It was interesting and, after mulling it around in my brain for awhile, I actually liked it.
Other books by Pete Hautman: Doppelganger, Drawing Dead, Hole in the Sky, Invisible
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