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The Brick Bible: A New Spin On The Old Testament (2011)

by Brendan Powell Smith(Favorite Author)

3.93 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1616084219 (ISBN13: 9781616084219)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Skyhorse Publishing

review 1: I don't know how to review this, and I definitely don't know which shelf to put this on. The creator basically took ten years of arranging and photographing Lego tableau's to illustrate the Old Testament (this book covers about half).While it's a Lego book, it's not necessarily meant for kids, I occasionally got a "naughty elf on the shelf" vibe where innocent toys are put in naughty positions. I did let Caleb read Exodus with me sitting next to him. The text is taken directly from the Old Testament as far as I can tell. The Old Testament can be barbaric. There's isn't the context for what's there. There's Lego depictions of childbirth, incest, circumcision by sword, beheadings, lego people drowning outside Noah's ark, etc. There is a lot of raping and pillaging. Di... mored I mention adult circumcision? I liked the Lego version of Solomon's palace. I pretty read it for the novelty of it.I guess I'm forced to give it 3 stars. I don't want to give it 4 or 5 stars in case I later discover it's blasphemous in some way that I missed, but I can't give it 1 or 2 stars because the idea is pretty awesome.
review 2: Read Mar 1-28 with my son.Ok, this was an experience to read with my son, who is six. There is blood and gore and killing on practically every page. My son was so excited to see Lego Darth Maul heads on several black lego people. They were charred corpses, victims of one the whimsical massacres by God of Israelites or maybe some other group. In the midst of all those battles and mass killings, at one point my son said, "Wow, they killed a lot of people." It was lot more fun to read than Lego City or Lego Ninjago.As for the book itself, it's a satire that defends itself by showing things that the bible actually has in it. The bible is actually this gory, and they do kill a lot of people. I get the point, but still cringed at how Smith simplified the story. I actually found myself really sad at how much he butchered the David story in Samuel in Kings. Of course, instead of typical simplifying the bible to gain converts and warp peoples morals or whatever, Smith does it to entertain and repulse. less

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