Last Day Abridged

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Summary: Taking Faith on a Roller Coaster Ride
Review: Wow! If you like roller coasters, try the mystical version. It's all right here in this book. How would we really react if a "Messiah" appeared tomorrow? Watching the characters react was a great opportunity to study my own reactions. Incredulity fades into hope. Doubt inches in to be replaced by despair and renewed faith. Wow! A very, very impressive first novel. It echoes in the mind long after the last page is turned. Thanks, Glenn.

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Summary: One in a 1000, a 10+
Review: Wow has this book stirred up the fundamentalists! (Not too hard to spot 'em on this page, is it?) I heard about the controversy on a radio talk show and ordered the book. Couldn't put it down. It affected me more deeply than anything I've read in a decade. The sanctimonious can't escape the powerful points this book makes. What is it about them that they demand the freedom to express their own beliefs but can't tolerate those of others? This book is a must read!

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Summary: Gospel According to Beavis and Butthead
Review: Kind of a groovy, now kind of happening as Christ appears as a politically correct feminist who seems unfamiliar with the original Gospels. This time it's a way cool media event and Jeza (oh boy) is the pop icon that can save our souls with a little help from her friends, the Magog. Too much! Far out!

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Summary: Jeza has Returned and She's Not Very Pleased
Review: Fundamentalist readers won't be happy with this attack on their beliefs and other readers may be just plain bored. The tirades about religion go on and on and on. No one could possibly buy the plot and paper thin characters. As someone who hasn't set foot in a church since Sunday school, even I found the bible references and Jeza's Newer New Testament off base and a real hoot. However, I really don't see such an inconsequential fantasy as being controversial or offensive.

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Summary: Warning!
Review: Several religious groups have collaborated to target this web page and other forums on the net in an effort to discourage people from reading this novel. They're using these tactics to attack any free-thinking publications they feel threaten their conservative belief systems. Contrary to their propaganda, this novel is a truly intelligent, thought-provoking and authentic work--an international best-seller praised by major literary reviews. While you may not agree with all its controversial points, the novel bears a profound message and is anything but silly or shallow. It deserves a fair and objective read.

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Summary: More Mellennium Hijinks
Review: Pretty fair for what it is (and there's sure to be a lot more like it as 2000 nears). The character of the reporter is interesting, if simple minded, but the Jesus figure is downright comical. The book gets way overheated in its condemnation of the church and the parables sound like something out of the mouth of the latest California cult leader. Some of this may be meant as satire. As such, it falls flat. However, the media circus seems accurate and hits the mark. Otherwise, a little above average story with a very weak and poorly realized premise.

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Summary: A sequel, PLEASE!!!
Review: Not a boring moment from page one to the end. I love the ending, and desperately wish the guy would make a sequel, or another version with missing chapters. I intend to read it again this week. (I just finished it!) Dennis C. Fitt ([e-mail]) Ontario, Canada

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Summary: Good Lord!
Review: A let down considering the potential of the topic - Last Judgement. A basic familirity with Revelations might have helped the author out. As it is, this is just a politically correct screed against all faiths with overblown dialogue, a repellant main character, and boring plot.There are attempts for controversy here that are simple bad taste to even agnostics like me. I wish I had waited for the paperback to show up at Goodwill. On second thought, wish I missed it completely.

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Summary: Salvation Smarmy
Review: This is more of an anti-religious rant than novel. Redemption here is presented as a selfrighteous and hateful, lacking any sense of spirituality. I'm not Catholic, but I didn't particularly enjoy seeing a saintly pope humiliated by a David Copperfield/Koresh clone. I guess as the 20th century ends second rate writers will churn out millenial novels in abundance and they shall come upon us as the plagues in Revelations. Woe unto us!

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Summary: Fair Thriller
Review: Fairly well done, with some ok plot twists. Way off the mark as far as religion, the church, and bible history goes. Still, it held my attention, although the messiah was a ludicrous loony a hungry puppy wouldn't follow.