The Gospel According to Gore Vidal is a time-travel story. A computer hacker is erasing the past, including the Good News. Timothy, the narrator, is commissioned to record the gospel and bury it lest it be lost to posterity. NBC, a division of General Electric, has dispatched a news crew to the first century to record the crucifixion.
The author’s displays of cleverness are intermittent, but his offensiveness is not. Jesus is presented as a fat man with a glandular problem whose voice is so shrill that only dogs are able to hear everything he said. Paul is a flaming homosexual dominated by greed. You get the idea. If Christians were as volatile as Islamic fundamentalists, Vidal would have had to spend the last fifteen years in hiding.
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