Ninety-Nine Stories of God (Audiobook)

from brangwinn

If for no other reason, the ability to write a short story in less than 5 paragraphs make this interesting reading. Some of the stories will make you put down the book for a while just to think what they are about. Others are very clear in their meaning. It's not a book of religious inspiration i...

from nikkinmichaels

I have to admit that I feel as though much of the morals and import of NINETY-NINE STORIES OF GOD escaped me. These "stories" (they're more akin to fables and aphorisms) take more to understand than a cursory reading; one day soon I'd like to peruse them again, studying just a few at a time. For ...

from Berly

So, this author has been nominated for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. And this book left me cold. Each entry is anywhere from a sentence to two pages in length and I guess they are supposed to be pithy, intropsective, wise...but they fell c...

from kcshankd

Some of these are very good, or laugh-out-loud funny. I'm a Powell's Indiespensable subscriber, but not very interested in Joy Williams's stories of God. Eh.

from jphamilton

Here's a great collection of some very brief short stories by a true master of the format. I most enjoy her characters, her humor, and the odd plotlines that she let's her readers in on. As an atheist, I was a little shaky about the whole GOD part of these stories, but I should have known better,...