Tag Archives: Book

The Brothers Brick isn’t just about bricks! When we’re not building with LEGO or writing about LEGO, we enjoy reading about it, too. Thankfully, there’s a plethora of page-turners ready for our perusal.

Minifig Modernists

Today’s batch of literary minifigs includes several more 20th-century writers.

Ezra Pound (1885-1971):

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940):

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961):

See Pillars of 20th-Century Liturature and More Writerly Minifigs as well.

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Pillars of 20th-Century Literature

Following up on my Pacific Northwest poet minifigs, here are a couple of my favorite 20th-century authors:

George Orwell (1903-1950):

John Steinbeck (1902-1968):

Tintin Minifigs by Tupperfan

Brickshelf user Tupperfan (whose hilarious earbud Afro I featured previously) has been posting a lot of minifigs recently, so I thought I’d highlight my favorite group — a series of minifigs based on the classic Tintin comic books by Hergé (Georges Rémi):

Keep up the good work, Tupperfan!

More Literary Minifigs

I just uploaded twenty more literary minifigs. Here’s a sampling:

John Thornton and Buck from Jack London’s The Call of the Wild:

Mr. Hyde from Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:

And links to the rest:

Guy Montag from Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451

David Bowman from Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey

Piggy, Ralph, and Jack from William Golding’s Lord of the Flies

Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley from Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises

John the Savage, Lenina Crowne , Mustapha Mond, and Bernard Marx from Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World

Atticus Finch, Boo Radley, and Scout Finch from Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird

Dr. Victor Frankenstein (and his monster) from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Tom Joad from John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath

Dr. Henry Jekyll from Stevenson’s aforementioned novel

1984, Fahrenheit 451, Lord of the Flies, Brave New World — anybody see a pattern in my favorite books? Heh heh…

Literary Characters

I’ve been focusing on vignettes for a while, but this weekend I thought I’d try building a bunch of new minifigs.

Here’s the crew of the Pequod from Herman Melville’s Moby Dick:

(A note on Captain Ahab: This minifig is an essentially unmodified Hovercraft Pilot from 7045 Hovercraft Hideout. The head even has a scar that spans his face, just as Melville describes. I almost think the designer at LEGO had Captain Ahab in mind when developing this minifig.)

Here’s the title character from Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe:

And links to several more:

Philip Marlowe from Raymond Chandler’s series of detective novels

Henry Fleming (“The Youth”) from Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage

Santiago (the title character) from Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea

Winston and Julia from George Orwell’s 1984 (my favorite book)

Jim and Huck from Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Billy Pilgrim from Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five

More to come soon.

The Treasure House

My favorite book in The Chronicles of Narnia has always been Prince Caspian. Since I couldn’t update my “Giant Steps” vignette this weekend, I built a vignette based on one of my favorite scenes from my favorite book. In this scene, the four Pevensey children discover the treasure house beneath the ruined castle Cair Paravel:

And a link to the whole gallery, once it’s been moderated.

Lantern Waste (with a bonus “Ferrari Knight”)

First up today, a new vignette I created over the weekend, based on a scene from C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (book one of the classic Chronicles of Narnia series):

Now aren’t you mad that M***B***s got the Narnia license for the upcoming movie? More Narnia creations to come soon.

And I couldn’t pass this next one up. “Ferrari Knights” by Brickshelf user nias:

Absolutely original. Absolutely hilarious.