Ben-Hur, a Tale of the Christ (Hardcover)

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I have loved the movie, Ben- Hur since I first saw it in a re-release in 1968. It has taken me 48 years to read the book. I was surprised that the 1959 movie, which I love, was so boring in book form. The first 16 chapters were the first 10 minutes of the 1959 movie. The author, General Lew Walla...

from Juva

This is the story of Judah Ben-Hur, a nobly born Jewish boy with aspirations of becoming a soldier and fighting against the Roman Empire. As a youth he is falsely accused of an assassination attempt by his boyhood rival. He is sentenced to be a galley slave and his mother and sister are taken awa...

from wordsampersand

I can't recall another novel I've read that seesawed between sublime and sheer awfulness like this one. There were some wonderfully written moments, and then mere sentences later we'd get a description of a handshake that's, like, paragraphs long. The dialogue was the same way--some really subtle...

from TadAD

It was a great movie. How does the book stack up? In some ways, it's better: the stories are richer, there are many secondary stories that the movie could not accommodate. In some ways, it's not as good: the book has a lot of speechifying in it. If you skim those, I'd recommend reading the book a...

from Schmerguls

This was the third 'library book' I read when I obtained access to the high school library as a freshman in the fall of 1942. It was a memorable book, though I suppose my memory has been enhanced by the movie. Wallace, I beleve, wrote it when he was an Army general stationed at a quiet Army post ...