Mohamed Hashik Hashik من عند Khantara, West Bengal, الهند من عند Khantara, West Bengal, الهند

Probably the greatest book on the subject of faith and the nature of God that I've ever read.

Even skimming, there was a lot of repetition and the only characters I liked were Nevada and Sorin (quasi-villains) but I'll probably end up reading/skimming the next one, assuming the person who lent me this one buys it (I won't). Some of the cultural stuff was seriously annoying (the presumption that people with Greek names are obviously not from the US for one. For another, while the male blood-born vampire stopped maturing in his early 30s, the female blood born vampire reached her physical maturity at age 16 which, aside from the ick factor, is also years before the human brain finishes developing, which is an ick of a different sort. Plus other stuff)

Be sure to read the version translated by Pevear and Volokhonsky.