The Illuminati

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Summary: A good book to help us be on our guard in the last times.
Review: Although this book is fiction, it seemed like another good reminder of the commonly held hidden agenda of the antichrist. I had seen Apocalypse 2/Revelation the video, and Cal Rutland in the Illuminati reminded me of the anitchrist's henchman in Apocalypse 2/Revelation. This book emphasized the tremendous weight of the media/television to impact public opinion. Even now, you have to force yourself to do other things besides watch TV because its easy to just sit there and justify the ungodly stuff that comes over the TV. If you listen to the voice in your conscience that says "breakaway", you are doing good. This was the fastest that I have read a book since JAWS. I thought the parallels concerning what happens to those who serve Satan rivaled the scene in the movie Ghost in which the guy who killed the lead character was being clawed and dragged to hell screaming in fear. This also, matched what Carmen's video shows as the way the warlock dies in "A Witches Invitation". Basically, satan lures people by their own desires and when he is through with them, he discards them to suffer. I think that books like this might possibly re-enforce that christians will have to suffer, and this is a potential warning of it. Jesus said we would be hated because of Him. We are hearing it from many sources such as the bible, prophecy books and fiction. Like training. A good read ! Somewhat farfetched at times. But still a good read !

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Summary: Overexaggerated & unbelievable, but interesting.
Review: An interesting plot, quite easy to read although very religious(directly describing the anti-christ, heaven/hell etc. - the author isobviously a devout christian) and somewhat too exaggerated and farfetched at times. The author certainly has a vivid imagination though - it is amazing (although thoroughly unbelievable) all the worldshaking events that he described happening in just the space of the next 10 years.

The characters are interesting and well thought out, although the author has an annoying habit of giving ALL of the characters names, however important or unimportant they may be. This results in the reader reading half the book before he realises which characters are important and which are not.

This book is however worth reading if you're interested in plots, conspiricies etc. Disappointingly, however, it does not tell you very much about the Illuminati.

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Summary: Untalented, unwitty, predictable and without depth
Review: Based on an interesting idea and a truly scary vision the author succeeds in totally wasting every opportunity to catch the reader.

The characters are undeveloped, stereotypical and flat. The plot is thin and predictable. The technology used in the book to first control the entire USA and then in the hands of the freedom fighters liberate it is totally unrealistic and described in a manner that makes you want to laugh.

During most of the book the author describes how greedy media-conglomerates and a naive and easily duped population allows WWII nazi-germany happen all over again in the USA, but nowhere does he discuss anything about anyone reacting to the lies and deceptions that the corrupt government pours out through the media. It is as if noone even reacted when hundreds of thousands neighbours, friends and family were rounded up and sent off to camp.

Besides, who can for one second believe that any American would allow the government to tatoo an ID number on your hand, a number that you have to show to get food and supplies? The revolution would come well before that happened...

Luckily, Jesus and Christianity saves the world at the end of the day.

A silly and ridiculous book totally ruining a could-be great conspiracy theory plot.

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Summary: "The Crying of Lot 49" LITE.
Review: Before this book I had no idea there was such a thing as 'Christian Fiction'. So this is what the Reborn do for fun. Well, for the real thing they should read Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49" and be really frightened while having a much more enjoyable read if the satire is not lost on them.

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Summary: Riveting reading, really what it coult be like someday!
Review: Dear reader; if you like the 'LEFT BEHIND" series you will really love this. It's written really well, its fast, the characters are great, i loved it. I reccommend it all the time, please buy and enjoy.

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Summary: The best I've read in a long time.
Review: I have never read another fiction christian novel that kept me in suspense like this one did. This and Thor Conspiracy are two of the best written books I have ever read. They were very hard to put down.

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Summary: really quite bad.
Review: I picked up The Illuminati because I am very interested in eschatology or what is more commonly referred to as the "end times" and more specifically, my particular interest lies in a Biblical interpretation of the end of those times. And I love good fiction. And also I have read elsewhere about the existence of an international group of powerful elite policy-makers known as The Illuminati, so I wanted to learn more about them. But this book has seriously let me down on all three counts. Even the title is misleading because it does not really focus on any intelligent discussion of the Illuminati. Seriously, you would be hard-pressed to find a book built upon a more weakly constructed storyline, cookie-cutter characters, and all caving in upon itself with the worst dialogue that I think I have ever come across. If a wall of water 60 feet high were about to roll on top of two of Burkett's characters, I'm sure they would turn to each other, grasp hands, and say... "Quick, let's run!"

Well, it's unfortunate, because he has chosen a very serious topic to write a poor book about. It will make many people take the real issues that are here MIS-represented less seriously. Burkett has written tremendous (and I think the very best) books about personal financial management, but The Illuminati proves that fiction is a genre wherein he ought not to have strayed.

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Summary: I found it a little eerie, but I just couldn't put it down!
Review: I read this book for the first time just days after the 1995 Kobe, Japan earthquake. Along with other world events of that time... well, let's just say that it was an eerie coincidence to read what was in The Illuminati. Yes, it's a bit paranoid and dogmatic, but it's rare when I read a book cover to cover without hardly stopping to even eat. I literally could not put this one down! Definitely worth the read and the consideration even if it is fiction (we hope).

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Summary: an enjoyable book
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I did not read it to find out more about the "Illuminati" but to read a fiction thriller.
What I came away with is a scenario of what could happen to freedom when we allow the media, government, social and political groups to shape our morals and our convictions.
It is always said, "History repeats itself." and this book shows situations that could happen with society's moral decay so personally I found most of it believable.
There were quite a few characters to keep up with but I didn't feel that it detracted from the story.
It also is an example of a good fiction book can be written without curse words and sex scenes.

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Summary: Illuminati fans this is NOT the book for you
Review: I'm half way through this book and I'm pondering putting it down. The story line is okay. The writing is good considering Burkett is a Non-Fiction writer. The plot of course is recycled, but that's to be expected. The Characters though are horrible. The antagonist(The Leader, a middle eastern mad man/Hitler reincarnation/Super-Power in himself) is a complete moron. It's like he never read an history book in his life. The Society/Illuminati is controlled by this ONE man and he's totally bent on completing his own personal vendettas before completing the Illuminati's Goal. You would expect the Illuminati to be smarter and less religous than Burkett portrays them as. They've only been at this "Control the World" plot for seval centuries. The protagonist is almost as bad. He's the stereotypical computer genius that figures out the whole plot with his girlfriend whom he is just too shy to consider his girlfriend. Of course, this chick is completly in love with him because of his intelligence and the fact that he respects her because of her abilities and not the fact that her did is this super physicist. The plot after a good build is slowly degrading to predictable. It belongs more in a ""What If" Nazi Germany had occured in America" comic book then in a full fledged novel. The title of the this book should seriously been changed to Nazi America, or Hitler's America. The only thing that stops it from becoming one of those is that it includes this secret (stupid) society that has enginered the fall of the American Economy and rise of the World Economy. I'm just hoping that there is no happy ending and this computer hack protagonist falls flat on his face so I can truly see this "Satan's kingdom on Earth" being strived for by the antagonist. Illuminati Fans Do Not Read This Book. Everyone else: Enjoy a frightning "What If" of America's future manipulated by a secret society bent on world domination