Dear God, I Hated This Book....

Shalom Auslander, who visits today, writes a perverse and (eventually) wholly positive introduction to Chaim Potok's The Chosen. The introduction appears in a wholly imaginary Modern Library edition of Potok's book, and begins this way:

"Dear God, I hated this book. I hated this book more than Shakespeare and I really hated Shakespeare. The only work I hated more than Shakespeare's was the Old Testament, and I hated this book even more than I hated the Old Testament...."  More.