A review by amalies
Gutenberg's Apprentice by Alix Christie

4.0

This was a very informative book of historical fiction told through the point of view of his apprentice, the man who set the type cast, of the hard years Gutenberg spent making the first bible. How people viewed the printing press as suspicion. The lies that were told to keep the work on the bible a secret. The work of the people inside his press, how long it took to finish the bible, how many different techniques they discovered in the process, how they worked themselves with basically no sleep and little food, how they raised money to buy supplies, and on and on. It is the story of men that slaved to complete a magnificent hospital event and the day to day things they endured. I have always appreciated his work as an inventor, but this book really gave me a grasp on the intense amount I have to really be grateful for his work and how it shaped history.