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Subject:	Re: Brick Testament in UK's .net magaine and seven new German articles
Newsgroups:	lugnet.mediawatch
Date:	Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:26:20 GMT
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The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith wrote: > Süddeutsche Zeitung > http://www.thebricktestament.com/press/suddeutsche_zeitung_04-07-05.html Mostly neutral. Theme: Mixing childhood Memories from the bible and playing with LEGO bricks > Abendzeitung > http://www.thebricktestament.com/press/abendzeitung_04-08-14p15.html Fun, ironical, not endorsed by TLC > Wochenendbeilage der Stuttgarter Zeitung > http://www.thebricktestament.com/press/wochenendbeilage_der_stuttgarter_zeitung_04-08-14.html "Blasphemic", "Distorted". More or less a call for "burn him at the stake". The World you present is a giant botch, the beings are distorted, and God is a bearded Frankenstein. Compare this smiting to the articles by the catholic news agency: > Katholische Nachrichten-Agentur > http://www.thebricktestament.com/press/katholische_nachrichten-agentur_04-08-24.html Very positive, but - partly due to the use of an old-fashined bible translation as the textual basis for the german version of the book - more fun than educational. Also positive on the politically correct warning labels on the web site. > Katholische Nachrichten-Agentur GmbH > http://www.thebricktestament.com/press/katholische_nachrichten-agentur_gmbh_04-08-24.html Basically a short version of the above article. Positive review, but not necessarily a book for kids. > Annabelle > http://www.thebricktestament.com/press/annabelle_04-08-11.html Neutral, more on the story behind the book. > Focus > http://www.thebricktestament.com/press/focus_04-08-09.html Nice word play: "A(r)theist". Positive review, considers the book joyful fun. > Unfortunately, I don't know what they say, but my publisher seems to think the > book is going over quite well. If any German readers would care to confirm > that, it might ease my mind. @8^) HTH, Christian

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		Re: Brick Testament in UK's .net magaine and seven new German articles
(...) Wow, nice! (...) Interesting. I wish they'd used a more modern readable German translation of the Bible. It's unfortunate that I had little say in the matter. (...) Is this a play on artist and atheist or maybe art-theist? (...) Thanks so (...) (22 years ago, 30-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)

		Re: Brick Testament in UK's .net magaine and seven new German articles
(...) These are compliments, and the call is rather "buy the book". (...) Yes, and he's a rather evil guy who destroys all living beeings when he has one of his notorious fits of rage. Overall the tone is very tongue-in-cheek. Jürgen (22 years ago, 30-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)

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		Brick Testament in UK's .net magaine and seven new German articles
The UK magazine .net had a short interview with "The Brains Behind" The Brick Testament in their August 2004 issue. I just recently acquired a copy, and have scanned the article for the Brick Testament press page: (URL) my German publisher recently (...) (22 years ago, 29-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.books, lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.loc.uk)

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