The Book of Dave - Will Self

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1783739,00.html

“The Book of Dave” is based around the rants of Dave Roth, a disgruntled East End taxi driver, who writes his woes down and buries them only to have them discovered 500 years after the flood and used as the sacred text for a religion that has taken hold in the remnants of London. Will Self’s big bold book dares to take on the grand themes in the grand manner. It is at once a profound meditation upon the nature of received religion; a love story; a caustic satire of contemporary urban life and a historical detective story set in the far future. "

This book does have some of the faults described in the linked review, but it is, nevertheless a fantastic suggestion of how revealed religion probably works, and how close you might come to understanding a document from the distant past. Read it straight after "The God Delusion" and you'll never look at a religious ceremony the same way again!

Rated 9/10