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A review by kittyhollow
Holy Bible: New International Version by
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I really enjoyed the Old Testament. There are so many cool characters an stories that are magical and have hidden metaphors in them. I especially loved all the character development scenes where you get to learn about their customs and see how barbaric the characters were. Only the Old Testament could make you love characters who you know are forcing women to marry their rapists and who stone children for talking back to their parents and beat slaves. To me, that is the genius of the book. These are the worst people you could possibly imagine, yet somehow they find a way to see their humanity and teach you something about being kind (assuming the person you are being kind to is not a woman or child or slave of course)
Unfortunately, I ended up not finishing this book because of the New Testament.
For those of you who don't know, The New Testament isn't even written by the game guys as the Old Testament or in the same century! Combining the New and Old Testaments in one book, is like putting Pride and Prejudice and Zombies at the end of Pride and Prejudice. The New Testament is Old Testament Fan Fiction. You should know this going in, or you will be confused when you come across the second book. The two are only loosely tied together and don't come close to the depth of the original stories. They briefly mention the old characters that we grew to love, but it was brief and unsatisfying. It felt like more of an aside added after the fact, than an integral part of the story.
Spoiler alert: Jesus doesn't really die! You think he is dead and everyone is all sad about it, but a few chapters later, it turns out the dude is alive, and... its sort of explained how he is miraculously alive again, but I think the authors just got too much push back when they killed off everyone's favorite character so made up some mysterious zombie magic so he could be alive again the same way they did for Lazarus. Fool me one, authors, shame on you. Fool me twice, well I stopped reading after that. It just got too sensational for me, especially when they said he would live eternally... I mean, come on. Really? I'd rather read about a child sacrificing barbarian any day.
Unfortunately, I ended up not finishing this book because of the New Testament.
For those of you who don't know, The New Testament isn't even written by the game guys as the Old Testament or in the same century! Combining the New and Old Testaments in one book, is like putting Pride and Prejudice and Zombies at the end of Pride and Prejudice. The New Testament is Old Testament Fan Fiction. You should know this going in, or you will be confused when you come across the second book. The two are only loosely tied together and don't come close to the depth of the original stories. They briefly mention the old characters that we grew to love, but it was brief and unsatisfying. It felt like more of an aside added after the fact, than an integral part of the story.
Spoiler alert: Jesus doesn't really die! You think he is dead and everyone is all sad about it, but a few chapters later, it turns out the dude is alive, and... its sort of explained how he is miraculously alive again, but I think the authors just got too much push back when they killed off everyone's favorite character so made up some mysterious zombie magic so he could be alive again the same way they did for Lazarus. Fool me one, authors, shame on you. Fool me twice, well I stopped reading after that. It just got too sensational for me, especially when they said he would live eternally... I mean, come on. Really? I'd rather read about a child sacrificing barbarian any day.