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Summary: Soul Harvest
Review: The drama of those left behind is continued through the fourth series book titled Soul Harvest. The series written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, based on the rapture, begins with the disappearance of millions. During the novel Soul Harvest characters survive a global earthquake which shuts down many transportation systems and the ability of the main characters to communicate with loved ones. The main characters Rayford Steele and Buck Williams search for ways to get in touch with their wives and be reunited with the Tribulation Force.
Because the plot is based on the rapture a main theme seen through out the book would be the importance and influence off the Bible. References to verses in the Bible are revealed through Rayford's studies and Ben-Judah's teachings that are placed on the Internet for the access of the 144,000 witnesses.
Most of the characters can be described as stock characters, which either play a good or evil role. Because most characters were not fully developed at the beginning of the novels the reader can not understand the role of the characters until later in the series. The obvious character Rayford and Buck play a good role while Carpathia, the anarchist, plays a deceitful and manipulating role.
The plot of Soul Harvest is manly formula and somewhat original. Because this book follows the description of events and follows the basic format or the Bible the plot was already developed. Although most of the book was pre-formulated it also was original in the way that the authors created characters and added details.
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Summary: Slow, boring, dumb
Review: This book starts off as Buck and Captain Ray search for their wives on opposite sides of the Earth, following the gigantic "Wrath of the Lamb" earthquake. It takes nearly 300 pages for Buck to locate his wife, while in all that time Ray does nothing but convert his co-pilot and arrange to get ahold of some scuba gear to see if his wife died in a plane crash into the Tigris River. What's my point? All of this "action" could very well have taken place in the first chapter alone. The pacing in this book is about as fast as your average glacier. Anyway, things pick up a bit in the last third of the book. Buck and a pilot friend go off to Denver to rescue Hattie, and nearly get killed. Ray finally gets to dive in the wreckage of a 747 to look for his wife. Carpathia plots against the fake Pope, Peter Mathews. And God sends a humongous 1000-mile wide asteroid to crash into the Earth. Two, in fact, one of sulfur and one of rotten wood. OK, so this book [is bad]. Thank God I got it at the library for free. Un-Christian though it may sound, I tend to suspect the authors and the publisher are in cahoots to drag this series out as long as possible, to milk every last dollar they can out of the chumps who actually spend their own money to read this stuff. Furthermore, the writing is rife with basic factual errors. Considering that several of the main characters are pilots, the authors make little effort to learn anything about aviation. For instance, when Buck and his pilot friend Ken try to fly to Minneapolis in Ken's Learjet to locate Buck's wife, they take off from a golf course! Any pilot will tell you this is absurd, even in a landscape that hasn't just been ravaged by an earthquake. And a 1000 mile wide asteroid would have become visible hundreds of millions of miles from Earth, not a mere few hours before impact as described in the book. Finally, the whole plot line has an aura of unreality to it. Despite having just suffered the worst disaster in the history of the Earth, within a few days of the earthquake Buck is flying into Minneapolis St. Paul Airport, talking to air traffic control and arranging a rental car, all as if nothing of import had happened. Of course they also seem to have no problem buying food and taking care of their other basic needs. At no point do we get the sense that people have just survived a truly devastating event, instead it seems that life gets back to "normal" very quickly. But all this pales in comparison to the basic premise of the "Left Behind" books. And that is this: We are expected to believe that we should love and revere a God who is basically a sadistic psycho. I mean, the whole Tribulation is God's way of getting us wayward humans to love, accept, and follow him. For seven years, according to these books, God will win our affection and loyalty by unleashing a series of horrors upon us. God is basically like a sick stalker; if we refuse to love him then he will terrorize us until we do. When humans act this way we put them in jail or an insane asylum. It would seem that humankind is more evolved and civilized than the God described by Messr's Jenkins and LaHaye .....
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Summary: Christ Clone Trilogy is SO MUCH BETTER
Review: I stopped reading this series after #4 (Soul Harvest). I kept reading Left Behind hoping it would get better. It didn't. I also read (actually started reading) We All Fall Down, but there the foul language was SO EXCESSIVE I couldn't keep going. Finally I read the books of The Christ Clone Trilogy (why do I feel like Goldilocks here?) and it was "just right!" Actually it was GREAT! So if you're tired of Buck and Rayford playing James Bond, and all the females in the LB world cooing, have a look at The Christ Clone Trilogy.
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Summary: My take on end-times books
Review: The comparisons between end-times novels which have been made by other reviewers is probably useful, so here's my take on the matter. Last Day makes no attempt at all to adhere to scriptural prophecy. It is, in fact, less accurate scripturally than The Omen movies or End of Days. If you want a fun read and don't care whether the story has any connection to scripture, it's okay. Left Behind is an action adventure written primarily for Christians with a huge cross-over into the secular market. It sticks very closely to scripture and to prophecy of the time during the Tribulation. There is never any doubt of the authors' position and which characters are good and which are bad. Beyond that, there's been so much said about Left Behind by other readers that probably every possible opinion has been expressed. Some love it. Some hate it. Personally, I like the Left Behind series a lot. The Christ Clone Trilogy, my definite favorite among the list, is written for a secular audience with a big cross-over into the Christian market. Through most of the 3 books you don't know what the author's position is or which (if any) of the characters speak for him. Only in the last book do you find out he is a Christian and that he is using his story telling ability to reach the lost with the Gospel and the danger that faces them if they do not accept it. We All Fall Down is a story of a man forced to make decisions about himself and God when faced by undeniable evidence that the Bible is true. It's an interesting exploration in character but the author's development of the events of the Tribulation is muddled and very thin. The thing most Christians object to about We All Fall Down is the non-stop use of extreme profanity by the main character. It was hard for me to get past all the f-words, and I certainly would not say I enjoyed it, still it made me think.
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Summary: Too good to put down!
Review: A fantastic book. It was almost as hard to put down as the first in the series. I have to agree with another review that Nicolae was a bit slow, but Soul Harvest gets it all going again.
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Summary: COULDN'T PUT THIS SERIES DOWN
Review: THE ENTIRE, LEFT BEHIND SERIES, IS AWESOME ! I COULDN'T PUT THEM DOWN, WHEN I FINISHED THE FIRST ONE, HAD TO READ THE SECOND ONE, AND SO ON. I FINISHED THE ENTIRE SERIES, CAN'T WAIT UNTIL THE 9TH ONE IS RELEASED. THESE AUTHOR'S ARE AWESOME WRITERS, KEPT ME WANTING MORE. THESE BOOKS ALSO OPENED UP THE LAST BOOK IN THE BIBLE FOR ME (REVELATION) YOU GOTTA READ THESE BOOKS!
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Summary: The Indwelling
Review: This is the 7th book I've read in this series. It is hands-down, the best-imaginable way to happily endure an otherwise unsufferable 40 minutes on an exercise bike. Or a tiresome day in airplanes with bad air. It is well-paced and well-written. The four books I have read concurrent with this series were by Robert McNamara, Edward Said, Jamling Norgay and Thomas Gold, so I frankly object to reviews I've read that suggest these books are written for those with an 8th grade intelligence levels. They are exceptionally entertaining - the ultimate escape from a tedious situation.
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Summary: I'd give this zero stars, if I could
Review: All of the Left Behind books are poorly written, have plastic, stereotypical characters and fail to address any deep moral or religious questions. The popularity of these books just proves what an underserved market there is for Christian fiction--especially Christian thrillers.
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Summary: Not Convincing At All!
Review: The world takes sides because we are a product of our environment. If you were born in India, you might grow up to be a Hindu. If you were born in China, you might grow up and be a Buddhist. If you were born in America, you probably have been influenced by your parents along with the Christian faith. If you were born ugly, your personality would be quite different than if you are say "pretty." Do you really think that God would leave behind millions of people who are seeking the same thing? I disagree with the direction that these "truth in fiction" books have taken.
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Summary: I'd give 144,000 stars if i could (hehe)...
Review: This is one of the best books of the Left Behind series! Mayhem and chaos abound just after the great Wrath of the Lamb earthquake. The adventures of Buck Williams and Rayford Steele continue, as they keep on struggling against evil antichrist Nicolae Carpathia, try to convince their unsaved friends of the truth, and look for their missing wives. Buck joins Dr. Ben-Judah in a quest to find Chloe whether she is dead or alive, and Rayford teams up with another pilot for plenty of high-flying escapades. Besides all the Left Behind action we've come to know and love, this is probably the most humorous in the series, especially with Buck and Tsion trying to get into a hospital, and discovering certain smudge-like things on their heads. The judgements and the supernatural battle of God vs. evil are fantastic- but this is no fairy tale with everyone living happily ever after. There is a dark tone of real suspense, as not all of the characters are alive by the end of the book. Also- I know one shouldn't judge a book by the cover- but Soul Harvest has an awesome one, I think!
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