Miracle Workers

Miracle Workers

By Simon Rich
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“Rich isn’t interested in condemning religion—he just wants to have fun with it, using the Bible as an outrageous vehicle with which to present, in his own odd way, questions about faith and human nature. Funny and occasionally touching, What in God’s Name is satire that avoids sanctimony.”

New York Times Book Review

Welcome to Heaven, Inc., the grossly mismanaged corporation in the sky. For as long as anyone can remember, the founder and CEO (known in some circles as "God") has been phoning it in. Lately, he's been spending most of his time on the golf course. And when he does show up at work, it's not to resolve wars or end famines, but to Google himself and read what humans have been blogging about him.

When God decides to retire (to pursue his lifelong dream of opening an Asian Fusion restaurant), he also decides to destroy Earth. His employees take the news in stride, except for Craig and Eliza, two underpaid angels in the lowly Department of Miracles. Unlike their boss, Craig and Eliza love their jobs — uncapping city fire hydrants on hot days, revealing lost keys in snow banks — and they refuse to accept that earth is going under.

The angels manage to strike a deal with their boss. He'll call off his Armageddon, if they can solve their toughest miracle yet: getting the two most socially awkward humans on the planet to fall in love. With doomsday fast approaching, and the humans ignoring every chance for happiness thrown their way, Craig and Eliza must move heaven and earth to rescue them — and the rest of us, too.

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  1. Holly
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    Too boring for humor fiction

    I downloaded this audiobook on the recommendation of a friend. Sadly, I got really bored with it. The premise was intriguing, if somewhat blasphemous, but the execution just never really took off. If I could change that 3 star rating to 2.5 I would. I never connected with any of the characters, angelic or otherwise, and I honestly didn't care if Earth got destroyed or not at the end. Everyone seemed like bumbling idiots. Maybe that was the point. But it didn't make the book more interesting or thought provoking. I realize this is fiction, and that it’s supposed to be funny, but listening to a story where God is made out to be some incompetent, aloof, golf-playing CEO that doesn’t really care about his creations is hard for me. Had the story actually been funny or good I might have been able to overlook that, but if you’re going to write a book with this subject matter, it had better be really good. This was not.

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