Lego Books Written By AFOLs

[AFOL SF]

Hello everyone,

I'm curious what are the titles of books (related to Lego) that are/were written by AFOLs regarding their experiences and the languages these books are/were published. It would be nice to have a small library of such books. Thanks in advance...

AFOL SF

[davee123]

There are a lot of books by hobbyists if you count things like Mindstorms-- I remember having a trivia question along the lines of "name one author of a LEGO robotics book", and I found about 40 authors (and that was in 2004!).

Otherwise, I can think of:

- Getting Started with LEGO Trains (Jake McKee)

- LEGO: A Love Story (Jonathan Bender)

- Brick Testament (Brendan Powell Smith -- several iterations)

- The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide (Allan Bedford)

- Cool Cars and Trucks, Cool Robots, Cool City (Sean Kenney)

- Virtual LEGO (Tim Courtney, Steve Bliss, Ahui Herrera)

- LEGO Software Power Tools (Kevin Clague, Miguel Agullo, Lars Hassing)

And of course a slew of Mindstorms books, and a few books that were written by former LEGO designers, like the "Forbidden LEGO" book. Not sure if those are written by hobbyists or not, though.

DaveE

[AFOL SF]

...thanks for the response... I was thinking more like the book Jonathan Bender wrote; somewhat like a narrative of his life with Lego. I've seen a handful of books on Brickshelf but couldn't quite make the titles since these were written in German. I'm sure there are also some European authors (Italians, Polish and French, to name a few)and Japanese (most likely) who've written something similar to Jonathan's book. I've started reading "Lego: A Love Story" and it's quite interesting, IMO. It would be nice to know how other nationalities deal with Lego in their lives... Maybe some people out there knows about a book or two (hopefully have an english version, too).

[davee123]

I know of a few AFOLs that have *wanted* to do something like that-- and there's Joe Meno's upcoming book The Cult of LEGO (although I'm not sure if that focuses more on the company than the fans?). But other than LEGO: A Love Story, I don't know of any that have actually been published that are about the hobbyist community in general.

DaveE

Edited July 27, 2011 by davee123