James Frey, the super-duper controversial author responsible for the amazingly revelatory memoir piece of fiction, A Million Little Pieces, is back with a new novel which places Jesus Christ in the 21st century.
The Final Testament of the Holy Bible will, naturally, be published on Good Friday (April 22) in a calculated move to piss off every American who owns well-thumbed copy of the Bible. Frey, who became famous by detailing his own descent into addiction and then adding a whole lot of fantastical fake detail to make one of the most visceral books of the last decade clearly had no problems transplanting these characteristics onto God’s son, who hangs out in New York, smokes crack and has sex with a bunch of people. Certainly Oprah wouldn’t approve.
VICE Magazine have been given an exclusive excerpt, ‘Matthew’, from the book, ahead of its release next week. Here’s a taste of what to expect from the master of the f-bomb:
Some people just ain’t made for the world. Can’t fucking take it. Can’t deal with Momma and Dadda and school teaching you nothing and a fucking job with some motherfucking boss going blah blah blah and bills and neighbors and some kind of bullshit church and having a good credit score and a mortgage and getting married with kids and some kind of mysterious motherfucking retirement plan that don’t ever let you do nothing but put more in and get none back. Lotta people ain’t made for it. They the people you see on the streets, in dirty clothes, talking to themselves, screaming on the corner like they demonized, mumbling and crying, they the ones in your family and your town you always scared of and feeling sorry for and making excuses about, the ones you don’t even thinks is fucking human. They is, they just ain’t made like the rest of you and they can’t deal with it so they go to drinking and getting fucking high and being criminal and getting locked-the-fuck-up and just saying who gives a fuck to all of it. People be thinking they’re crazy and be needing some kind of fucking help, but the help ain’t nothing ’cause a motherfucking soup kitchen or some kind of shelter that can’t hold enough or a nuthouse where we get beat or some charity that’s really about motherfuckers’ friends knowing how good they is and how much they care ain’t nothing but bullshit. And don’t even bring up that made-up motherfucker people be calling God, ’cause that motherfucker don’t even exist, and don’t be bringing up all these so-called houses of God, ’cause they more about killing and hating than they is about helping and loving. Sorry to break the motherfucking news if you ain’t heard it, but that’s it motherfucker, that’s the fucking news.
If you’ve ever found yourself asking the time-honored question ‘What would Jesus do?’, Frey might just have the answer. Alternatively, he’ll be lynched by right-wing fanatics, led by Bill O’Reilly. Either way, it’s gonna be an interesting Easter in America.
via Media Bistro.
