The Astrological Diary of God - Softcover

Fowler, Bo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0224051652 ISBN 13: 9780224051651

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

This is the autobiography of Japs Eye Fontanelle, an 88-year-old, overweight, retired Japanese Kamikaze pilot. Japs Eye Fontanelle insists he is the rightful King of the Holy Channel Island of Jersey and the Creator of the Universe. He also thinks Astrology is mankind's only hope. Written while Japs Eye Fontanelle was under armed guard inside a mobile home in the Gold Vault, Fort Knox, for the alleged killing of Time, The Astrological Diary of God recounts his truly remarkable life; from his birth in the city of Kyoto and his minor involvement in WWII, to his study of the ancient science of Astrology, the historic discovery of his own divinity and the founding of the first Astrological Kingdom on Earth. The Astrological Diary of God is the holiest book you will ever come across. To read it is to glimpse the mastications of the Mind of God.

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Review:

A review should summarise and evaluate: give the potential reader a sense of what the book is about and whether it is any good. The Astrological Diary of God baffles both these modest aims. To say that it is about an enormously overweight Japanese ex- Kamikaze fighter pilot who believes himself to be the Supreme Being and who has founded a new religion based on astrology--a character who is kept under lock and key by the American Government in Fort Knox and put on trial for the "murder of time"--to say this does not convey one tenth of the riches of this hilarious, philosophical and deeply strange book. Evaluation is difficult too: for stretches Fowler does achieve something of the superb brain-burned intensity of his mentor, Kurt Vonnegut (and in particular Vonnegut's brilliant Breakfast of Champions which this novel most closely resembles). Just as often, though, the mixture of spaced-out prose, astrological diagrams, drawings and photographs (including a striking picture of the genitalia of God, a picture which turns out to be something else by the end) can leave the reader not quite knowing how to react. This novel is challenging, strange, funny and extremely readable. Fiction doesn't come much hipper. --Adam Roberts

Review:

"Fowler has written a damned fine novel-audacious, sparky and very funny." --The Times-UK "Clever and funny." --Independent Fowler has written a damned fine novel-audacious, sparky and very funny. "The Times-UK" Clever and funny. "Independent"" "Fowler has written a damned fine novel-audacious, sparky and very funny." --"The Times-UK" "Clever and funny." --"Independent"

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0224051652
• ISBN 13: 9780224051651
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304