Absurdity reigns in The Last Testament, a wickedly funny tell-all written from God's point of view as channeled via David Javerbaum (former head writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart). The book resembles a Holy Bible in language, text layout, font style and structure, its seven sections rendered like scripture, complete with numbered chapters and verses--a wise choice as the sentence spacing allows the reader to stop laughing long enough to come up for air.
God offers His hilarious 21st-century take on topics such as sports, celebrities, prayer, natural disasters, homosexuality, abortion, social media, sex, love and marriage. New Gospels shed light on His unmitigated feelings about Jews, Christians, Jesus, Mohammed, Islam--and everything in between. There is also a graphics section (a photograph of the Holy Grail is credited as "courtesy of the Mel Gibson Collection"), a chapter devoted to "Godlibs" (a fill-in-the-blank word game) and some of God's favorite things, including a cocktail called a "72 Virgins Colada."
The smartly funny pseudo-memoir culminates in "Revelation," an in-depth accounting of the signs foretelling the apocalypse scheduled for 2012: the "Brangelina" family will finally separate, gas will go up to $6.66 per gallon, the SATs will introduce a fourth section on tweeting, and "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" will admit it was butter all along. In the end, no religion, believer or nonbeliever is spared as "King of the Universe" unleashes His zany wrath. --Kathleen Gerard, blogger at Reading Between the Lines