English Book Report
Anthony Hui 4F (10)
Date: 12th April’2009
Book name: Godless
Author: Pete Hautman
Summary:
Godless is about a group of teenagers would like to build up a new religion called Chutengodian. The water tower in St Andrew Valley was served as the centre of their operation; they named it the Ten-Legged One. As water is essential to life and the tower was the tallest building in the valley, these gave them a sense of worship. Jason was the founder and Head Kahuna of the Church of the Ten-Legged God who had a mother’s obsession with diseases and a father’s obsession with religion of, which he was tired. His mother always gave great care to his physical behaviors, that’s why Jason was thought to have narcolepsy, a kind of sleeping disease. Under his father’s religious order, he was required to attend Teen Power Outreach, which allowed teenagers to get know to more about religion. In the story the members of Chuntengodian would like to organize a Midnight Mass to worship their Ten-Legged God. They planned to climb up to the water tank. Originally this had no great deal to the citizen. However, Henry’s (the high priest of Chutengodian) suggestion of having a swim in the tank put them into deep trouble. Lastly this adventurous story definitely give readers a sense of humors, the interaction between Shin (the First Keeper of the Sacred Text) and all the other characters in the story would burst you into laughter.
