Keck (Oedipus Wrecked
) offers his drug-induced view on living life with as little effort as possible while delving into the possibility of God and organized religion versus spirituality. With candid wit, he recalls his past 10 years, explaining the influence of his family (his crazy mother who wakes him up by putting a butcher knife to his throat), his unfulfilled decision to descend into priesthood (“It was cool to tell people you were becoming a priest, especially if you had a beer in your hand”) and his germ phobia (people should not shake hands in church during flu season). He gets roped into teaching Sunday school, where he delivers half-baked sermons on evolution and abortion, yet the church parents can't stop raving about the positive impact he's had on their children. The humor in a few chapters seems forced and somewhat puerile (at age 25 he beat up his brother for putting a child-protection lock on the computer so he couldn't look at porn), though overall, Keck wins the reader over with his quirky honesty. (Mar.)
