Hi guys, this is Dan here and today I'm going to be doing a review of the Jesus incident by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom. Frank Herbert, obviously, author of June. I don't have a huge amount to say about this book as you can probably see from the tabs. There are not many and a lot of them are quotes as well. Now the reason for that isn't necessarily that I didn't like it, it's just that it's so complex. This is one of those books when I finish reading it and I'm still kind of struggling to put it all together in my head. And so I think you need to read it like five times before you got all of the little nuances. But anyway, I'm going to read you the blurb, then I'm going to go through and check out some of my tabs. And I'll share my thoughts at the end if I have anything to add to what I just said. Dan reads, So the Jesus incident, a small group of human colonists are engaged in a desperate struggle for survival, ranged against them, the planet Pandora. Its native life forms is malevolent and savage as they are numerous and ship their shipboard computer who knows that it is God and on pain of destruction demands their worship. A giant of a novel, vast in its conception, cosmic and scope, universal and theme. So we have chaplain psychiatrists throughout this and the acronym for them is CP and they're referred to as CPs. And I've watched enough true crime. That's definitely the reason just to clarify. This isn't something that should be joked about really. I've watched enough true crime to know what the acronym CP stands for. So it was very odd and also in a weird way fitting because they were talking about chaplains and history of the Catholic church and all that. Anyway, quite by Jesus Lewis, the ox diary, a good bureaucracy is the best tool of oppression ever invented. A quote from Frankenstein's Monster Speaks from the ship records. If you've ever read Frankenstein, you'll recognize these little bits. Frankenstein, a great novel by the way. Read Frankenstein before you read this. Even though as I say this isn't bad, it's just also not like mind blowing. It's not on the scale of something like June which became a sci-fi classic. Anyway, but wherefore I am fearless and therefore powerful. I will watch with the wailiness of a snake that I may sting with its venom. You shall repent of the injuries you inflict. Frankenstein's Monster Speaks. They get these from the ship records. One thing that is quite cool because again it's all relating back to religion. This is in a way why I didn't get as much from it as maybe another reader mic because I'm not religious. So a lot of the religious comparisons and all that kind of stuff might have gone over my head. There is a very uncertain little bit where they're basically reenacting the crucifixion of Jesus. So it's like, well that, I get it. But yeah, because the ship is god, they worship it. Spiled, capital W and capital S. Which I thought was quite cool. I'll play on words. Here is a great out of context quote. Herb is grateful some of the Jesus who said, Bulbas had lurched one step toward her. Still holding that enormous erection pointed at her. And then he goes on about clones being property which raises some very interesting issues around consent and you know. Just, yeah. I don't want to think about that too much really. All right, quote here from training the Chaplain psychiatrist, moon based documents from the ship records. Absolute dependence is the hallmark of religion. It posits the supplicant and the one who dispenses gifts. The supplicant employs ritual and prayer and the attempt to influence control the dispenser of gifts. The kinship between this relationship and the days of absolute monarchs cannot be overlooked. This dependence on supplication gives to the keeper of those two essentials, the ritual paraphernalia and the purity of prayerful forms that is to the Chaplain, a power akin to that of the gift dispenser. Might need to unpick that one a little bit. That one's one where it's easy to read that, that it is to, you know, easy to read it to yourself and it is to read it out loud. You got a bit of a sketchy line here. The anxiety rose in it like something like a bastard child got by rape. I don't know about that. I mean, I suffer from anxiety disorder but I don't really feel comfortable with that comparison, you know. Christian Book of the Dead Ship Records and the Lord said, but hold the people is one and they have all one language and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do. Let us go down and confound their language that they may not understand one another's speech. Finally from Ship Quotes here, myths are not fiction but history is seen with a poet's eyes and recounted in a poet's terms. So, as you can see, most of what I took from this was actually from these little excerpts at the start of the paragraphs, it's not the chapters. I mean, I would say they're very short chapters as well, like probably between three to ten pages per chapter or something. So, there are a lot of these quotes and there's stuff in there where I was like, that would be interesting to talk about but I have no idea how I'd even begin to approach it because again, it's just one of those books where you'd need to read it a few times to get all of the nuances. Having said that, it was pleasurable enough to read. I gave it like a probably a pretty weak 3.5 out of 5 but it was okay and if it's tickled your fancy, check it out. I mean, I would say June, obviously better than this and that's kind of why Herbert's known for it. But also like some of Herbert's non-June novels like the Santa Roca Barrier, that was cracking. So, maybe read that before you get to this but if you see this going spare second hand, why not? So, there we have it, that's what I made of the Jesus incident by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom. As always, don't forget to let me know in the comments what you thought of this book if you read it. Hit that like button if you enjoyed this video. Hit that subscribe button for more and I will see you soon for another bookish video. Thanks a lot. Bye-bye.