A book about an existential crisis has no right to be this funny. Preparing for his Bar Mitzvah, a young Chris Decker starts to have big doubts about God and religion in general. Years later, as a scientist, he asks the most powerful computer available the question, and gets the answer he knew to be true. What follows is a highly funny, irreverent, satirical take on faith, belief, and human nature. While Chris is openly sceptical of philsophy, "misery in a cashmere cardigan", the novel itself is rooted in it. The prose is wonderfully readable with lots of fun word-play, and it's a book you want to devour in one sitting, with characters you really care about right from the start.