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Summary: Outstanding continuation of a wonderful series!
Review: Left Behind was suggested to me by my mother-in-law. Since our tastes in books are drastically different, I was hesitant. But WOW! What a series. This has captured my attention like no other series I have ever read. It is better than Asimov's Foundation series!! Praise the Lord for writers like these two that know how to teach and entertain at the same time. GOD BLESS YOU BOTH!!
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Summary: another one for the bestseller list
Review: I couldn't wait until August. Much to my surprise the book store called sooner than I expected. I rushed to get it and started reading. After having read the first three books I feel as if I know these people on a personal level. I found myself crying with them as well as cheering them on. And Tsion Ben-Judah, well, I can just see him frantically typing on the internet sending out the message of salvation. The "sign of the believers" was a wonderful element. Wonderful book ! I will be looking forward to the next book in the series.
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Summary: Jenkins has done it again!
Review: If you haven't picked up your copy of Soul Harvest yet, what are you waiting for? Jerry Jenkins has provided another terrific novel for the Left Behind series. I really enjoyed Soul Harvest and even laughed my way through a good portion of some of the scenes, especially those that occurred in various hospitals. Great book! Great ending! Jenkins leaves his readers hanging on for The Assassins, the fifth book in the series. Too bad we have to wait another year!
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Summary: Padded fluff.
Review: In high school or college, if you were writing a term paper and didn't have enough to say to fill a minimum page length, what did you do? Use a bigger font, triple spacing and wider margins. Well, that's exactly what the authors did here. You can tell just by looking on the pages that this book should only have been about 200 pages long, and the publisher just formatted it with as few words as possible on a page in order to make the book big, long and expensive. They know they have a captive audience anyway, so never mind if there isn't enough material here to really fill a book. Too bad the authors have already committed to a seven-book series. So little goes on in this book (and the whole series) that they probably could have done the job in three tightly-edited books of half the length. But then they wouldn't make as much money, would they?
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Summary: Poor writing - living on past glory.
Review: I was extremely disappointed with the latest "effort" of Mr. Jenkins and Mr. LaHaye. The vast majority of the book is spent looking for people and then he decides to throw 3 major events into the last 25 or so pages. This is very poor writing and is the exact opposite of the stunt they pulled in book 2, Tribulation Force, when they went with the "6 months later" gag throwing in a new character out of left field (Amanda) and everyone buddy-buddy and getting married. You don't spend 400 pages writing about one event (people wandering around looking for other people) and completely introduce a major event and resolve it in 2 pages (like a meteor the size of the Appalachian mountain range hitting the earth)! Either the authors were pressed to make deadlines and threw this in or their writing skills are beginning to come to light. They are excellent story-tellers (which is why the series is so popular), but it appears their writing talent leaves something to be desired. These books are beginning to remind me of some 2-bit TV soap opera. If you want to read a well written novel, try DEADLINE by Randy Alcorn. Read it and you will see the difference between good and poor writing.
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Summary: It continues the suspense alright!
Review: OK, to show you how much I enjoyed reading this book, I will tell you this. It is 11:20 am at the time I am righting this, I bought the book at about 12:00 yesterday. I started to read this book and I couldn't put it down. I read it all in about 10 hours!!!!! It was funny how many major events got mushed into the last couple of pages, but I am expecting "The Assasins" to pick up right where this book left off. Even if it doesn't and you want more detail, go read your Bible! It is all in there. Anyway I don't want to disclose any of the story so I'll just thank the authors for another job well done. I reccomend anybody to go right now and buy these books.
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Summary: Superbly Written!!
Review: LaHaye and Jenkins have done it again. With the release of "Soul Harvest", they compently intertwine the sadness and frustrations of living in such a time of crisis while still keeping up with biblical prophecy. I do however agree with previous reviews about certain reviewers revealin information that could by any chance ruin the book for someone (obviously that happened). But for the book, i think it could not have been done much better.
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Summary: Another outstanding effort from Tim and Jerry
Review: This installment of this series has been the best since the original. I finished it in 2 sittings, literally being unable to put the book down. I do have one minor problem with the story line, however. My issue concerns Amanda. What was the purpose of this character? Or should I say, this "type" of character. I am reminded of old Star Trek episodes where you beam a guy in a red shirt down with Kirk and Spock just so you can kill them off. Amanda's character served no real purpose. I did like the plot twist where they suspected her of being an interloper, but even that was a stretch. Had it been suspected that Buck, Chloe, Rayford or maybe Tsion was the rat, it would have been far more interesting. Why? Because these characters had been developed over 2 books prior to Amanda. I care about them, and really didn't care about Amanda. She was just kind of thrown in during "Nicolae" and I was indifferent to her character the entire time. In fact, I was bothered that we got an entire book featuring Buck and Chloe's courtship (Trib. Force), and no development of Amanda and Rayford's-yet were expected to identify/care about this character and their relationship. When they finally did "discover" Amanda, I really didn't care. It wasn't like it was one of my favorite characters. I felt worse for Donny, and he had about zero development. Also, it's about time Nicolae starting acting like the "Antichrist" again. He hadn't really done anything worthy of his title since the first book. His indifference to the disasters and growing disdain for the Trib. Force was a nice touch. Anyway, that's just my two cents. The book is outstanding and it grips you from end to end. I really enjoyed the exchanges between Rayford and "Supreme Commander Fortunato". Classic. The "seal" was ingenious. I only wish we as Christians could see those seals now. Can't wait for "The Assasins".
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Summary: The authors sell their souls to harvest some cash.
Review: While I'm not one to rank the Left Behind series among my alltime favorites, it has been an enjoyable read. Until now, that is.Soul Harvest is a disappointing filler that seems more an effort to cash in on the series' overall success than an integral part of the story. Whether or not the authors planned to expand the series to 7 books from the start I don't know, but it would appear that they have decided to take a good thing too far. More time and dialogue goes into deciding whether or not to open the briefcase of a dead man than the anti-climactic judgements of God rained down upon the earth. Where I put down Nicholae eager to devour the next installment, after finishing Soul Harvest I feel empty, a little cheated and only mildly curious about what comes next.
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Summary: another thrilling addition to the series
Review: This book was as good as I expected. My husband and I enjoy reading these books and look foward to each new arrival. It is so good, we stayed up till 2 am to finish reading it aloud, despite the fact my husband had to work the next day! It is so interesting to see how the story lines up with the Biblical prophecy in Revelation. I am anxious to read the next 3 books! Regarding the other review, I had read part of it and was disappointed that the reviewer disclosed some information regarding the story line. However, I was still surprised by the events of the book and enjoyed reading all of it. I don't feel the story was ruined for me. Soul Harvest is a well-written and exciting book. I also appreciate the authors' centrality to what is most important. Well done, sirs!
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