Match BookAn Atheist Primer: Did You Know All the Gods Came from the Same Place?
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
1978 · 28 pages · Narrative nonfiction
How it reads
An Atheist Primer: Did You Know All the Gods Came from the Same Place? is narrative nonfiction (atheist polemic, specifically), and its dominant mood is tense. The suspense is the kind you feel in your shoulders. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.
It's set in several locations, in the recent past, told in the first person by a single narrator. Its central concerns are faith, identity and power and politics. In weight it's heavy and literary — denser, more serious, and more demanding of you.
It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending resolves happily. At 28 pages it's a single-sitting book. It's moderately known: read by plenty of people, but not a household name.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something tense
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you want something to chew on
Maybe not if…
- you need something cosy or heartwarming
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- narrative nonfiction
- Author gender
- female
- Author experience
- established
- Setting: place
- multiple locations
- Setting: time
- recent past
- Mood / feeling
- tense
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- heavy and literary
- Length
- short
- Narrative style
- first person, one narrator
- Publication era
- classic
- Popularity
- moderately known
- Series vs standalone
- standalone
- Themes
- faith, identity, power and politics
- Ending style
- resolved and happy
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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