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Title: A Creed for the Third Millennium by Colleen McCullough ISBN: 0-06-015301-6 Publisher: Harpercollins Pub. Date: 01 April, 1985 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.85 (13 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A pleasant surprise from a familiar author
Comment: "Creed" is an unexpected offering from one of my favorite guilty pleasures. Colleen McCullough's "Tim" and "The Thornbirds" are two of my favorite books, but I don't usually admit to being a fan since these stories are somewhat simplistic romances. This book is very different from her other works. While the writing style is still quite simple and her symbolism is much too obvious, the novel offers a thought-provoking vision of a not-too-distant and all-too-possible future. The creation of a modern day messiah through the government's manipulation of the media is a fascinating premise. This book makes me a little less shy about admitting that I am a McCullough fan.
Rating: 5
Summary: Indictment of Our Society on the Verge of the Millennium
Comment: I read this years ago and it stays with me. I looked it up just now to recommend it to a friend. I didn't feel that this book should be so simply explained as an attempt to rehash the story of the New Testament. I feel that it showed the fallacy of Man and Orwellian government at the start of the New Millennium attempting to artificially create a passion similar to that of Jesus to appease and inspire the demoralized dumb masses. I see parallells of this book in our society today. I hope that having read "Stranger In a Strange Land" didn't affect my perception of this book to much, because comparisons can be made with it also. This was not written for the "Thornbirds" crowd. "Creed for the Third Millennium" is worth reading and thinking about.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful plot- scary political overtones
Comment: I have to disagree with the reviewers who focused on the religious tone of the book- Colleen has a manufactured Christ figure who is out to give a feel good message to the masses at the behest of the wary political structure that is struggling to survive in the face of oncoming climatic changes and looming despair. I feel her futuristic vision of a man manipulated to serve the populist needs of the masses for hope was brilliant- I never saw the character as an actual Christ- I saw him as pawn.
I love the Thorn Birds and Indecent Obsession.Morgan's Run is one of the best novels to date about the early days of the colonization of Australia by convicts. I have tried repeatedly to read her Rome books and can never get into them- too many characters, too much detail- not the most interesting topic to me personally. I guess this is why this book which is such a departure from her other work has stayed with me over the years. I re-read this every 5 years or as a modern apocolyptic classic.
Other books to read in this realm: On the Beach by Nevil Shute and A Canticle for Leibowitz.
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Title: An Indecent Obsession by Colleen McCullough ISBN: 0380603764 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 October, 1982 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Tim by Colleen McCullough ISBN: 0380711966 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Ladies of Missalonghi by Colleen McCullough ISBN: 0380704587 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 April, 1988 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Morgan'S Run by Colleen McCullough ISBN: 0684853299 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 29 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough ISBN: 0380710811 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 August, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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