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A review by plapp
Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus by Chester Brown
5.0
Super odd and I couldn't put it down. Brown makes a bunch of logic leaps and assumptions and projections, but his point of view is so fascinating and I'm really glad I read this and got to see how he put all these pieces together to form his view.
Some of the critical reviews openly admit they didn't read or skimmed the Afterword / Notes, and then said that nothing connected the stories. The Afterword and Notes ARE the book! They connect everything! Brown used illustration and the comic medium to represent the stories he found relevant to his argument, but he used the actual text in the Notes and Afterword to bring it all together.
This is the first book I've read in a long time that made me want to do more research on the topic and form my own opinions. I grew up very religious and have been trying to get down to the bones of the actual text of the Bible for years now, so this was fascinating to me. For all its quirks and biases, I'm really glad I read this.
Some of the critical reviews openly admit they didn't read or skimmed the Afterword / Notes, and then said that nothing connected the stories. The Afterword and Notes ARE the book! They connect everything! Brown used illustration and the comic medium to represent the stories he found relevant to his argument, but he used the actual text in the Notes and Afterword to bring it all together.
This is the first book I've read in a long time that made me want to do more research on the topic and form my own opinions. I grew up very religious and have been trying to get down to the bones of the actual text of the Bible for years now, so this was fascinating to me. For all its quirks and biases, I'm really glad I read this.