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Summary: Best Fiction I have Ever Read!
Review: It stirred all my emotions. And the scene where he describes heaven and Jesus, I had to put the book down I was crying so hard! Definately my favorite book!
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Summary: Great murder mystery, a little too political
Review: I enjoyed the book for both the murder mystery, Jake's awakening to Christ and its descriptions of heaven and hell. I also fell in love with the characters, particularly Carly and Jake. However, the novel's "political" issues felt contrived and unnecessary. A great suspense novel!
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Summary: Unexpected Surprise
Review: A friend found a copy of Deadline on a discarded bookshelf at a mission guest house and told me it was one of the most interesting books he had ever read. I looked for it in a public library, and before I was halfway through, had to buy my own copy. Alcorn's masterful weaving of a mystery novel, a social commentary, and a "Lewis-like" portrayal of eternity seem like an impossible combination, but he has made it into a delightful three-stranded cord that has the reader feeling as if he is reading three books at once.Jake's investigation into a murder mystery is easily as exciting as any current popular thriller novel. This is the first book I have ever read that brought tears to my eyes as I finished it, and I have been reading for forty years. It is by far the best I have read in the last year.
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Summary: ...changed my life...
Review: WOW! Deadline is one of the most engaging items of fiction I've ever read. I absolutely could not put the book down. The story is incredible. Jake became a remarkable character. Not only can you know this character, but you are on the journey with him. You understand his dilemma and his change of heart. I give Deadline the highest recommendation possible. The only complaint you might have is the difficulty of keeping a copy. My first paperback copy of Deadline traveled from friend to friend until it fell apart. The sequel isn't as good but Randy Alcorn has got to be the most impressive first-time novelist in recent memory.
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Summary: Deadline Review
Review: I have just finished reading Randy Alcorn's Deadline, and I enjoyed it immensely. Highly recommended to me, I found it refreshing that Alcorn did not see the need to sugarcoat many of the issues and temptations that we face, something that other Christian authors seem to do quite frequently. We see the men and women as "real" people with real hurts...and real solutions. My husband and I both read the book within 10 days. Now it's time to loan it out!
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Summary: A good story with a great message
Review: Although there were times during this book that the author bordered on being preachy, the story ,the messages and the depiction of heaven and hell were very interesting and compelling. This book keeps getting passed among friends and everyone (so far) has enjoyed and gotten alot out of it...I call that a good book!
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Summary: The God of Politics
Review: Although I applaud the author's effort to portray a conversion experience, heaven, and hell within the boundaries of a murder mystery, the book just didn't work. The mystery plotline was extremely slow moving, and many events are contrived not to further the plot, but to allow a character an opportunity to mouth the author's political views. The author confuses his politics with his God. The message throughout is that Christianity = conservative politics. The main character, a liberal, first has to realize that his politics are all wrong before he can come to Christ. So the Christian's job is first to convince people that abortion is wrong, that school vouchers are a good thing, that the liberal media is destroying society, that sex education is seducing our children, etc., and only after we have convinced them of these truths are they ready to hear and accept the gospel? Bottom line: The book was interesting enough to finish, but not to pass along. In particular, I would not encourage a person who was undecided about Christianity to read the book, unless they already happened to be a card-carrying Republican, and unless you were more concerned about trying to change their political views than trying to show them their need for Christ.
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Summary: Can you say...Get to the point...
Review: I couldn't put the book down long enough! The only reason I bothered to finish the book was out of curiosity. I needed to know that there was really a plot or main point to the story. I never did figure out if there was either. I admit he has some beautiful ideas about the after-life, but the amount of useless details you must read through to get to anything interesting was ridiculous. I think about two hundred pages could have been cut out and I would not have missed anything. I've read phone books that held my interest about as much as this book did.
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Summary: The best book I have ever read
Review: I own a Christian Bookstore and I must say I sell this book more than other book. He is an excellent author and much research is put into his books. I offer it to people to give to there unsaved and saved friends. I love the Heaven parts I hope he will write more books.
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Summary: We couldn't put it down
Review: My wife read this book with an addictive frenzied passion that required me to temporarily assume her household duties. Well I got even I too was so caught up this book I could not put it down. What a story. I am planning to use this book as an evangelistic tool with my unsaved or fence sitting friends. Just an incredibily well woven story. The insight into Heaven and Hell as weel as the prophetic storyline woven in to this mystery made it INCREDIBLE!!!
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