Review: Did Not Enjoy This One
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 6, 2013
I can't say I'd recommend this one, because I wish I'd never finished it. I thought it was going to weave the gospels together into one story about Jesus' time on earth, but that's not exactly what it did. There were repetitions that looked like the author had included the same story from two different books, and, there were many other problems. The sentences were so short and choppy they became monotonous and sometimes were fragments instead of sentences at all. The vocabulary was simplistic and watered down. I think it would have become boring to even a third grader. The author didn't capitalize pronouns for God or Jesus, parts of quotation marks were missing, and he used misplaced dependent clauses. Commas were too often random with needed ones missing and extra ones added where they weren't needed. He keeps using the term "Jews" for all those officials who opposed Jesus, but Jesus and His disciples were also Jews. Instead of being in chronological order, the stories of Jesus are grouped by topics, for example "Jesus Heals." If someone has never read any of the Bible, and they have a lower education level or English is their second language, perhaps the book would prove useful, but I doubt it. Looking at the other high reviews, however, perhaps it's just me, but I wonder if they all read the book through. My problem was not with the contents of the book so much, because they were Biblical, but in the manner in which they were presented. I gritted my teeth and finished it, but I didn't enjoy it at all.