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Summary: This book is a must-read!
Review: This book is Biblically based and is so real that it makes me want to find the bad guys now, by looking for the character's names out there in the world! If you're a Christian, this will strengthen your faith. If you're not, then this book will tell you something about Christianity
while keeping you riveted to the page. Check out the sequel
THE TRIBULATION FORCE
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Summary: A fantastic account of how Life could be after the Rapture.
Review: This compelling novel about the Last Days and life on earth as the Rapture of the church happens is incredible! Everyone that I have recommended this book to tells me the same thing. "I couldn't put it down!" I read the book in 2 days and then was so frustrated I had to wait 2 more months for the sequel. I recommend this to everyone. This has really been an inspiration to be a better witness for Christ. Be prepared.... you don't want to be LEFT BEHIND
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Summary: Better just leave this book behind in a trash can
Review: I was told that this book is the best selling Christian fiction series in history. Out of curiosity, I read this 1st one in the series. Poorly written text made me want to throw the book in the trash can right from the start. The attitude of the author is even more annoying. The whole time I was reading the book, I felt like I was treated like a bone-head idiot. Those impressive sales and reviews make me wonder why. I looked around. Couldn't find a no-star or trash on the rating.
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Summary: Yawn.
Review: Is it fair to review a book I didn't finish reading? Sure, in hopes of saving someone else the money of buying it. Why didn't I finish reading it? Perhaps it was the: 1. Horrid logic. At the beginning, we learn that two events have already happened. A scientist has invented a chemical fertilizer for making the deserts bloom in Israel, which solves all of Israel's problems --even though Israel's problems are not generally considered to be agricultural in nature. And a nuclear attack on Israel by Russia is thwarted when the bombs explode over Israel without hitting the ground-- hardly much use when you consider the radiation that such bombs would have released. 2. Bad writing. If I ever hire a ghost writer, I'm gonna pick a guy who can write. 3. Stupid characters. By the time I threw the book across the room in disgust (around page 39), roughly 40 had been introduced, if you don't count the women. And you can't count the women, because all they do is act stupid and clingy and hang around waiting for the men to protect them, which the men do with the same consideration and kindness one might exhibit toward a wounded and exceptionally stupid sheep. But perhaps I didn't give the series a fair shake. I couldn't. Nausea had set in. I will say this for it-- it has gotten a segment of the population reading that normally doesn't read much. Unfortunately, it also promotes the belief that we won't be needing the world much longer, which has extremely unfortunate ramifications for the environment, public health, and international relations.
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Summary: Forgive me
Review: Until this book was published, I never realized just how un-Christian I was in my belief that the Prince of Peace really wanted to bring peace to the world. But now I've seen the error of my ways.
Hopefull they'll make a movie of the book complete with mega-violence chest-bursting death and destruction so we believers can present a good witness to the world. Soldier on Christians!
Is it too much to ask for a killer soundtrack, too?
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Summary: Definitely a real pager turner, even for the non-Christian
Review: Left Behind and the 11 sequels are really just one long novel. It is possible, though not satisfying to read only the first one. I really enjoyed the first novel, Left Behind (well enough to read the next 11), although I actually stopped reading it for a while because the focus on the disbelievers was maddening. Millions of people all over the world disappear at once (coicidentally the die-hard Christians), and there is some question about what has happened? I suppose LeHaye and Jenkins were trying to convey just how ridiculous the non-Christians must seem to the Christians, but it was a bit overboard and actually a little boring. Anyway, our heroes finally accept Christ and the rest of the novels were action packed page turners. Of course, the Antichrist takes over rule of the world using the UN and the promise of world peace. I actually laughed out loud when the Antichrist was promising peace and extolling the exact sentiments you hear in the average Hillary Clinton speech (coincidence?). The novels read just an epic disaster novel and were just as fun. I would warn people who are anti-religion that the preaching is a little thick, but I enjoyed it and it was necessary to set the proper tone.
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Summary: A message of hate that belongs in the dark ages
Review: This book and the others in the series are essentially a fundamentalist interpretation of the book of revelations. They depict Jesus returning to earth to slaughter everyone who is not a born-again Christian. Jews, Catholics, Hindus, agnostics, whomever doesn't share their particular beliefs is thrown into the fire pit as it were.
A few salient points:
1. The whole idea of the rapture is not to be found in the bible. It originated around 1830, based on the visions that a 15 year old girl named Margaret McDonald experienced while ill. She later shared them with clergymen, and a movement surrounding these ideas sprung up. Many religious scholars dispute the idea.
2. In the modern world, we still have many problems with various groups claiming superiority based on beliefs or which group they belong to. Hutus killed Tsutsis in Rwanda, Shiites and Sunnis battle it out in the Middle East, and the born agains have convinced themselves that everyone who doesn't share their particular beliefs is eternally damned. As we try to evolve towards a more modern world, one should ask themselves whether this message is part of the solution or part of the problem.
3. These same authors have a series of books for children expousing the same message. Is this any different than the fundamentalist Madrassa schools in the Middle East that the US has condemned for indoctrinating hate into young people? Should children go to school, where they will undoubtedly encounter other kids from different cultures/belief system, with the message that everyone not exactly like them in their beliefs is eternally damned?
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Summary: I'm a believer!
Review: Wow! What a cool set of books. I'm on book 4 of the series and it has made me stop and reevaluate my entire belief system. Would I be one of the people who vanished with the rapture? Or would I be one of the ones left behind.
This book reminds me a lot of those little christian comic books that you used to find laying around--especially the one where the big-brother government comes to round up all the Christians. Way cool premise. It actually made me pick up my dusty old bible and start reading revelations.
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Summary: Awful writing, vicious thinking
Review: There are three ways to look at Left Behind (which I read out of sincere interest in comprehending Fundamentalism):
1. It's a book of science-fantasy, with a little soft-core sex and violence. It fits the genre. As such, it's a very poor job of writing. The characters are neither believable nor individuated enough to sympathize with. The action has no pace, no suspense. There's not a trace of humor. In short, no serious publisher would take a second look at at. Try Harry Potter instead; it's more plausible, and a lot more amusing. OR
2. It's a diatribe, a book that rants against "others" in order to incite hatred. It reeks of bigotry and racism. If it portrays fundamentalist attitudes fairly, then fundamentalists are the sort of people who gloat over the distress of others--not the sort of people who love their neighbors, who see the beam in their own eyes before the speck in someone else's eye, or who forgive anyone 7X70 times! OR
3. It's a coded secret message from some diabolic enemy of freedom, with instructions for subverting the democratic process and establishing a sectarian tyranny. I can't break the code; can you? Perhaps you should read every third word from the back of each chapter in order to find the meaning in this droning nonsense.
All in all, I think my third interpretation is the most promising.
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Summary: Pretty cool EOW story
Review: I've read a lot of end of world books and was totally surprised at this story line. Who would have thought to write an EOW book based on the biblical rapture? What a cool idea.
I liked this book and fully intend to check out the other 8 books in the series. What a cool idea for an apocalyptic book. Even if you're not big on the Christian scene, it's still a neat EOW book. This book reminded me a lot of The Stand (although it is totally original in it's theme.) I also liked Earth the New Frontier which was another new EOW story out there.
Read this book if you get a chance.
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