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Only Human
In this sequal to "The Missing Link", Christie and Danny undertake another dangerous journey, which brings them into contact with their genetic origins in the most unexpected ways. author: Thompson, Kate; publisher: Red Fox
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Only Human
author: Boyt, Susie; publisher: Headline Review
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Only Human
Novelist Jenny Diski examines the story of the life-long love of Abraham and Sarah (Genesis chapters 11 to 22) and recasts their story as the first love triangle - between a man, his wife and the voice of God. author: Diski, Jenny; publisher: Virago
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Headline Review Only Human
Pages: 256, Paperback, Headline Review
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Orbit Only Human
Tom Holt's popular comic fantasies began with <I>Expecting Someone Taller</I> in 1987: <I>Only Human</I> is his 15th novel in this vein. When God takes his son Jay on a fishing holiday in a far-off galaxy, the unpublicised younger son Kevin finally gets a chance to play with the family computer. This is Mainframe, the PC of God that passeth all understanding, custom-built by Kawaguchiya Integrated Circuits to run the world ... and definitely unsafe to tinker with. Kevin's blunders shift souls into the wrong bodies: a machine operator swaps places with his machine, a woman with an old portrait, a Duke of Hell with a vicar and Prime Minister Dermot Fraud with a suicide-bent lemming. Meanwhile Kawaguchiya's computer system achieves self-awareness, Zxprxp the visiting alien explores Earth's weaknesses and a demonic conspiracy is afoot. Holt provides numerous funny one-liners: a heavenly fridge magnet reads ANGELS DO IT IMMACULATELY, while Customs in Hell has green and red channels for Nothing to abandon and Abandon hope here. At the same time, he's genially pessimistic about humans and their intractable stupidity. Maybe the lemmings have the right idea after all? Our world seems doomed to end, not with a bang but a snigger ... Vintage Holt. --<I>DavidLangford</I >
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BBC Books Doctor Who - Only Human (New Series Adventure 5)
Pages: 288, Hardcover, BBC Books
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Jossey Bass Wiley Only Human: Christian Reflections on the Journey Toward Wholeness
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Red Fox Only Human: Missing Link 2
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Virago Press Ltd Only Human: A Comedy
Take one grandiose, petulant God, add (his?) Abram and Sarai from Genesis, put the iconoclastic Sarai centre-stage, and you have the makings of Jenny Diski's eighth novel, <I>Only Human: A Comedy</I>. Readers have come to count on Diski's work for its uncomfortable challenges and witty subversions. Here she tackles the biblical account of origins, but her version is filled with sly volte-faces and lovely twists: Who creates who? Who can claim ownership of the grand narrative? Why believe?<p>Sarai's story is one of innocence tempered by longings that harden into a refusal to suffer fools gladly--and that includes Abram for his obedient faith in his God, as well as this quixotic God himself. In alternating voices this aggrieved, easily dumbfounded God speaks to us in the first person, admitting to being astounded by the inventiveness of humans, and foxed by their desire to become <I>us</I>, when what he has shown them is his eternal <I>I am</I>. Abram's and Sarai's trials and tribulations are many and great: shame and exile, desert wanderings, and, most terrible of all, Sarai's barrenness, which she accepts as the way of the world, but Abram is consumed by the loss of his begetting. God, meantime, stamps and stomps, and peppers his watchfulness with what he learns from his humans until I had my fill of mankind and its seething, fleshy, unreliable ways and so decides that he will become ahead of the game. What he hadn't bargained for was love--and the consequent desolations of loss. Becoming all too human, he wants to be loved by Abram, and is consumed by jealousy and revenge towards Sarai. He plots against Sarai but her machinations are a match for his. She organises the birth of Ishmael by Hagar; he orchestrates the birth of Isaac, and incidentally renames them Abraham and Sarah and then he tops it with: The story's mine, not hers, never was. The interruption is the narrative, the interrupter is the narrator. But one wonders how it is that Sarah knew the story all along, passed down through generations of women.<p>Audaciously inventive and humanely rich in its observation of emotional tumult, although just occasionally this slips over into emotional literacy speech rather than nuance, Jenny Diski has done her story proud. --<I>Ruth Petrie</I>
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Headline Review Only Human
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Metz P. Computers are Only Human: The Back-to-before-basics Guide
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