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title: "The Christmas Mystery Paperback – January 1, 2010"
brand: "jostein gaarder"
price: "A$128"
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reviews_count: 13
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# The Christmas Mystery Paperback – January 1, 2010

**Brand:** jostein gaarder
**Price:** A$128
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- **What is this?** The Christmas Mystery Paperback – January 1, 2010 by jostein gaarder
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## Customer Reviews

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    2000 years in 24 days
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 29, 2014*

I read Jostein Gaarder's Solitaire Mystery and Sophie's world, so I knew anything by him will be interesting.  I was not disappointed. My husband and I read the kindle version aloud, one calendar day chapter each morning, just checking it out for our grandchildren.  But soon we got interested and intrigued by the clever and well researched and documented stories underlying the main story. An 8-year-old girl runs after a little lamb and ends up traveling back in history from Norway in 2000 to Bethlehem at the time of Jesus' birth.  On the way, each day is joined by another figure (shepherd, wise man, angel, more sheep) and learns from them about geography and history in those places at that time, for example the pied piper of Hamlin at the time of black plague. Eventually we had to open the atlas to follow her journey! It was all sweetly informative. A perfect advent book for a family to read together. The ending was a little let down, like always when a mystery is solved.  My husband did not like the ending, would have preferred, if it ended with a question mark.  I liked it.As soon as we finished I ordered a paper edition to be sent to our grandchildren for next Christmas advent.  They are 6 and 8.

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    Just What I Wanted
  

*by K***H on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 29, 2021*

Thank you for having this book. My family read this every December for years as a Christmas tradition and now I get to share it with my children. Christmas is going to be awesome this year!!

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    A promising concept but poorly executed, with troubling theological messages
  

*by A***. on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 11, 2015*

I thought reading a chapter a week from December 1st until December 24th was an intriguing and fun concept, but the chapters ended up being both forced and formulaic.  The story feels like a forced march across Europe, with occasional short bursts of description or dialogue (always ending with, "To Bethlehem! to Bethlehem!") but there is never enough dialogue or description to feel like it is more than a bit in a tourist's guidebook or a scant attempt at giving the wooden characters some sort of personality.The present time story about the mysterious Advent calendar is at first interesting, but then begins to feel contrived and manipulative.  The author's insistence "'That Jesus came into the world to teach people to be kind to one another. No other lesson is more difficult for a human being to learn, but no other lesson is more important.'" (from Day 19) at first is a little grating, but after he repeats this over and over it becomes distressing.  I wanted to take the author by the shoulders and ask him, "Haven't you ever read John 3:17-18?  Where on earth are you getting the idea that Jesus' biggest message was to play nicely with each other?"I had hoped for more from this book, but ended up being quite disappointed.  It is a great concept, but so poorly executed I can't imagine including this as a regular Advent tradition.

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