A review by bethgiven
Me, Myself & Bob: A True Story about God, Dreams, and Talking Vegetables by Phil Vischer
3.0
I first heard about VeggieTales back in 1997 from a friend in marching band. I remember my friend Kim and I watching Silly Songs with Larry over and over again (maybe that is a lame Friday night activity for eighteen-year-olds, but hey). But then the Veggies kind of dropped off my radar. I had no idea that the company had ended up bankrupt only a few short years after that late-nineties heyday. Yikes.
This recounting of the rise and fall of VeggieTales kept my interest all the way through. It was an easy read (Vischer isn't going to get any awards for deep or beautiful writing, but it's succinct and readable -- he comes across as mostly likeable and funny). Still, this was not the upbeat, silly story you'd expect from Larry the Cucumber. Although Vischer tries to show how he grew through the hard times, I couldn't help but hurt a little for everyone who ended up going down with Big Idea and VeggieTales.
It's been a long time since I've read something from an evangelical Christian point of view, and it was interesting to see how his faith influenced his thought processes at varying points of the story.
One of the things I enjoyed most about this book was "revisiting" Lombard, Illinois. This was the would-be site of Big Idea headquarters (before they realized they couldn't finance it) -- and it was our home from 2006-2008. It's always fun to read about a familiar place in a book.
This recounting of the rise and fall of VeggieTales kept my interest all the way through. It was an easy read (Vischer isn't going to get any awards for deep or beautiful writing, but it's succinct and readable -- he comes across as mostly likeable and funny). Still, this was not the upbeat, silly story you'd expect from Larry the Cucumber. Although Vischer tries to show how he grew through the hard times, I couldn't help but hurt a little for everyone who ended up going down with Big Idea and VeggieTales.
It's been a long time since I've read something from an evangelical Christian point of view, and it was interesting to see how his faith influenced his thought processes at varying points of the story.
One of the things I enjoyed most about this book was "revisiting" Lombard, Illinois. This was the would-be site of Big Idea headquarters (before they realized they couldn't finance it) -- and it was our home from 2006-2008. It's always fun to read about a familiar place in a book.