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Description: Good. Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas. read more
Description: Good. Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas. read more
"This is going to sound bad, but I'm not sure if I read this or not. I remember back in the day when I was part of the church I read a series where a kid time travles back to the BOM days... and this was the only series I could find via google and wikki.
I remember it having something to do with a chest or something, not a cave, so I'm not entirely sure.
If it Is the right series, I remember loving it at the time. I've always been a person to pick up and devour books and I remember borrowing the first one from a friend because my family felt that my preferred reading material wasn't uplifting enough.
From what I remember, its a bit poorly written and the characters are a little over the top exaggerated... but the story itself was engaging and I spent a couple of weeks that summer reading the entire series up to that point.
I'm half tempted to look into picking it up on audio, but likely won't as I'm no longer associated with the LDS church and probably wouldn't enjoy it now. Best to leave it in the past when it was cherished, and not pick it apart for religious content."
"I last read this when I was 12, and we bought it for Aiden (trying to find books for his ability). It's too mature for him (the beginning of the book deals with peer pressure and some things that are just beyond a 6 year old's comprehension., so we'll try again in a few years. However, I reread it and really enjoyed it. There is quite a bit of action/adventure that will really appeal to boys of that "tween" age. It makes me want to go look all these characters up in the Book of Mormon and read their stories so I can become more familiar with them. (It also makes me a bit ashamed that I'm not all that familiar with the Book of Mormon stories and characters presented. ) Anyway, go read it with your kids, if they aren't too young. :)"
"Silly but thoroughly entertaining. The series gets out of hand (and has sat unfinished and untouched for a number of years), but the original when I read it was just pure fun. Totally implausible, and thoroughly amusing for this boys to get thrown into an Ancient American war zone, but as far as YA reads go, it's great for its intended audience."
"Excellent. This was the first word that came to my mind when I finished. Granted this book really isn't for everybody. It's geared towards middle school aged boys, but I can say (at least in my case) it didn't lessen my enjoyment of the book. I should also mention that this is really a book for people who already are LDS members. Of course you can read it if your aren't but I doubt that it would be as entertaining. A lot of the funny moments wouldn't make sense and it's always a shame not to get a good joke.
I absolutely thought that the main characters, Jim and Garth, were the perfect match to go back to the time of the Nephites and Lamanites. Jim with his sense of adventure and Garth with all his knowledge of the Book of Mormon made this team priceless.
I thought the author did everything almost pitch perfect. From how he thought all the heroes of the Book of Mormon would have acted to the general feel of the culture at the time. When I finished I wanted to go right away and read the Book of Mormon and see how well the book followed the events that actually happened (well I am really going to do that after I finish this review).
This book is the first of the series and I'm sorry to say that I know I won't be reading any of the others, even though I really did think this book was a real gem. It just that I know that the other books won't have the same charm as this one. Jim will no longer be a rebel (which was part of what made the book funny)and there is only so much chessiness (don't think that's a word but oh well) you can take. It was fine in this one but I doubt as Jim gets older it will be as endearing. I know if I read the whole series that it would mess up this happy, glowy feeling I'm getting from the first one.
The story did it's job though. It made all those stories I read in the Book of Mormon seem more real, even though obviously I knew they were true. A definite must read for any boys out there that sound like they are Jims:)"
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