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Thoughts: Well, what a book. It's quite different to anything I've read before. But brilliantly witty. You find yourself in the most outrageous, insane scenes imaginable, but that's part of the charm. Each character is so incredibly captured, especially Behemoth, the talking cat. I did lose track of the numerous storylines after a while - not helped by the fact that I read it over a fairly long period of time - but I didn't find that particularly mattered, I still enjoyed them as they came along. I don't think I got all of the biblical references, but again I didn't find that to be a problem as what I mainly enjoyed were the characters and fantastical story lines. As an atheist I surprised myself by actually quite enjoying the fairly moving accounts of Pontius Pilate, which I admit slightly put me off the book to begin with. It is very well written, although I get the feeling my translation wasn't all that great - having researched afterwards, apparently the Michael Glenny translation is much better. All in all though, I really enjoyed reading it. I rarely like books with a magical element, but the 'fantasticality' was done in such a satirical and witty manner I actually found this book incredibly refreshing.
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