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Summary: This book was totally awesome!
Review: This book was as stimulating and thought provoking as the others. I've enjoyed all six books in the series and can't wait for the seventh one to come out. If you ever tried to interpret the book of Revelations, this could be it! I highly recommend this book to everyone (along with the first three). They're very exciting (and sometimes very scary!). I would suggest reading them in order starting with "Left Behind" so it will make more sense when you get to this one which is number four in this awe inspiring series. Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins are wonderful authors.
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Summary: How wonderful
Review: I have read some of the other reviews on this book and I believe this is one of the best series of books I have read to date. I make no apologies, I would re-read. Keep going Tim & Jerry. Please write more!
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Summary: I was very impressed
Review: I had thought this one would be a bit of a yawner; I was wrong. This is the best book so far in the series. I really liked the way the action cut back and forth between the main characters and their equally tense situations. Quite a bit was revealed that I didn't expect. The series is taking some very imaginative turns. I felt much closer to the characters and the sorrows of the world. The dissection of politics among the anti-christ and his followers is masterful. I had never understood why he kept Rayford Steele around so long until it made sense later in the book. I must admit I didn't see that one coming. I was surprised with the ending of the scuba diving expedition and have many unanswered questions in regards to what they found. Now I've got to read the next book!
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Summary: Just one of the awesome books in a series you have to read!
Review: Soul Harvest along with all of the others is written so well that you actually FEEL that you are there. It's SO real. Before I read these books, I really never knew anything about the last days. Everyone of these books helped me understand about the end times and that I really need to be ready. This series tells the unbelieving story of 4 people who are left behind and realize they were missing something. As they go on through the judgements and natural phenomenons prophecied in the Bible they you realize what a God we have. They bring more people to Christ and live only in the faith that God is omnipotent and reigning over everything. It's a series you MUST read! They are awesome!!!!!
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Summary: Malicious filth -- but the best so far
Review: I have to admit I'm hooked... reading these ridiculously bad, foolish, and just plain mean-spirited novels is like watching an old Ed Wood movie. It's so horrible that there's almost a genius to it; there's an element of fascination that just grips you. The fourth book has had the most action so far, and the scene where two characters dive into the Tigris river to search a downed plane is great.I've never read anything quite like this series in my life, and I like to consider myself an avid reader of all kinds of fiction. I've never come across characters so static, so contradictory, and so poorly executed that they're almost brilliant in themselves. Pope Pontifax Peter Mathews, evil world leader Nicholae Carpathia, his right hand Leon Fortunado, ex 747 captain Rayford Steele, and Cameran "Buck" Williams, the abstruse and world renown journalist (who couldn't write a decent church marquee if his static life depended on it) are all so poorly crafted and unbelievable that they deserve an underground cult following of college students who pride themselves on devouring B movies. But unfortunately that would never happen because the theme of the series is so hostile and inhuman that no one in his or her right mind (I'm crazy myself) would continue reading after the first book. I have never come across anything that so grossly downsizes and eliminates so many necessary human emotions. For example, the characters (who are initially presented as intelligent) never doubt their faith and wonder why they'd want to spend an eternity doing nothing but worshipping and worshipping and worshipping... in a sense, becoming a Borg, the cyborg-like species from the Star Trek series. Eternity in itself is a paradox: without time and the passage and flow from past to present to future, eternity has no meaning because there is no past, present, or future. And they never ponder why so many great women and men who inspire us, teach us, or make us laugh are cast into an "eternity" of hell while they, who seal off their minds and become belligerent to any form of world peace and world government, get to spend eternity with their god away from many of their "unsaved" loved ones. No, there is never a mention of doubt or retrospect, nor any form of sexuality (I applaud them for using no curse words -- a tremondous accomplishment-- but the word breast isn't even used in the whole series), or any of the depth of emotion that makes us human. Plus the series has no basis in reality whatsoever. Apparently, the renegade evangelist-rabbi can preach via the Internet on a "Central bulletin board" that apparantly everyone has access to and can hold unlimited messages. Oh yeah, it's entirely anonymous too! Where can I find this wonderful place? I want everyone to hear my message, I want to get hundreds of thousands of responses to my writing. Oh yes, I also want to have the ability to post new items in this mire of congestion and have everyone know it's instantly me and not some imposter or one of the millions of replies. Anyone who's ever touched the Internet or has a working mind knows this is ludicrous nonsense... although I will admit it's not as dumb as the world moving the U.N. to Iraq, or everything being pretty much back to normal a month after a global, ten pointer earth quake. I was horribly disturbed by a passage in this novel, one of the rabbi's messages on the central bulletin board. You can find it on pages 323-330. While it does have a Nazi propaganda-type beauty to it, it's a threat against any proposal of any kind of disarmarment or world peace. It's even written, and I quote, "I have never hidden that I believe the very idea of a one-world government, or currency, or especially faith is from the pit of hell." Now I consider this an insult to any intelligent pacifist. What the characters in the novel want is in fact a one world-government, one world currency, and one world faith, but instead of it being free for all people and ideas, it's a dictatorship where one religion exists and any thought that goes against the bible's doctrine is eradicated. That is a church directed communism, ladies and gentlemen. [Speaking in context of the book] If the one world government was led by someone other than Carpathia, who is corrupt and evil (though not as evil as this dangerous hostile thinking), the main characters would be terrorists, their goal to plunge the world into a new dark age where knowledge and thinking are restricted. Of course, I'm leaving out the supernatural elements of the rapture (which are all way out of chronological order by the way) so I'm not entirely being fair to the work. I think a lot of people are forgetting that this is merely fiction, a form of conjecture. I don't know the future. You don't know what's going to happen. We only live in the now. Nothing is good or bad, only thinking makes it so, as Shakespeare said. I challenge those of you who swallow this dogma to be like Huck Finn and run away with the slave -- risk the chance of hell to see the truth of our universe. Regardless of my parallel views, I'm a fan of the series and look forward to the next release. I'd like to close this review with something by Osho, a truly enlightened one who I will see in hell along with billions of others, yet I'd much rather be there than spend an "eternity" (think about that) with people like Pat Robertson and James and Tammy Bakker and David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz. Bear with me, I'm paraphrasing. A missionary approached me one day. "God created the world," he said. "Who created sin?" I asked. "The devil did." "Then who created the devil?" "Why, God of course," he replied, though he was at loss. Now who is the original sinner?
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Summary: This is a well written thriller - you can't put it down.
Review: If ever there was a way to make people believe in Christ - this is the best way. I have been a christian for 10 years - but these books still scare me and keep me on the edge of my seat. They actually helped me to understand what exactly happens in revelation. This book especially is one of the more fast paced - many problems are resolved in this book. The only thing I don't like about this book is the fact that it was too short - I was ready to read for another 500 pages when I found I was at the end of the book. Kudos to Tim Lahaye and Jerry Jenkins. This series should be givin to every non-believer or to any one who has ever doubted in God.
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Summary: The whole series has captured my attention.
Review: I have read the whole series. I first picked up the books 6 months ago and couldn't get through the first one. Now, I can't put them down, I can't explain the change. While the writing is sometimes tedious, the story as a whole is captiviting. I can't wait to read the next one. I feel like the author has taken bibical prophecies and put them in a way we can understand them. I don't plan on being "left behind". I am also amazed at the number of reviews these books have. I have looked at other "best sellers" and found less than five reviews. These books have created hundreds. Interesting don't you think!
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Summary: Wheat from the Chaff
Review: Pleasantly enough, this fourth installment of the popular "Left Behind" series didn't leave me in literary pain. There's finally a small degree of plausible character development, and the action has picked up tremendously since the first three books. There are still points about the quality of writing I find disturbing, but overall this is one I'd recommend. After the overwhelming disappointment of the first three novels, "Soul Harvest" is a fresh lease of life to the series.
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Summary: The "Left Behind" series is a MUST READ-INCREDIBILE!
Review: The authors keeps one reading all night long. As a retired professor, this fiction-non-fiction is one series I do not think can be topped! I've read hundreds of books and not one has ever kept my complete attention for hours without sustenance of some kind. I've never written comments on any book(s) before! Such insight-kudos to the authors!
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Summary: Getting better all the time.
Review: This series is fabulous. I found one of them a little dry, I think it was the second one, but since then am hooked again and am now reading "Apollyon", which looks to be as interesting as the others. These character developments are outstanding. The anti-Christ is sinister and very frightening in a too nice kind of way, the worst kind of way. I'm concerned over the recent pregnancies announced though, what will happen to the children, who can only live to age five if at all? The books draw you into issues such as this, they make you wonder about the characters and situations during the day while at work, at home, it stays with you. To me, this is a sign of excellent writing. I was told after "Assassins" there won't be another until spring of 2000 and already I am obsessing over that. Keep reading this series folks, you won't regret it. And God bless the authors for finding a most unique way to allow people to inspect their own faith.
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