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Summary: Well, it does show one thing
Review: This is badly written pulp fiction made out of a set of screwball ideas. However, considering the piles of money these guys have made off the simple-minded, it does offer some solid evidence that you can't go broke underestimating the American people.
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Summary: worst written book ever
Review: This has got to be the worst written book ever. But then what do you expect, anyone who actually belives this garbage isnt smart enough to know the difference.
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Summary: Left Behind by Isaac
Review: The Rapture. Christ had come to take all the Christian believers and left the non-believers behind. Among these people were Rayford Steele, Chloe Steele, Bruce Barnes, and Buck Williams. Rayford Steele was an analytic pilot. He never was a true Christian inside. His wife, Irene, and his son, Rayford Jr., had become "fanatic" believers in Christ, and had tried to push Ray to come to church regularly. He always mad excuses and naturally slipped away to work. Chloe Steele had taken after her father, Rayford, to the unfortunate fate of a "phony" Christian. She grew up in the church, but never fully commited herself to God. Bruce Barnes was an assistant pastor. He felt the guilt of being a leader in the church, and then missing the big deal. The instant the Rapture occured, he was overwhelmed with the tragedy. He knew exactly what had happened. Buck Williams was the senior writer for the world-famous magazine, The Global Weekly. He was on the plane that Rayford Steele piloted at the time of the disappearances.
Rayford went to the church that Irene attended and found Bruce Barnes. They both became fast believers and faithfully started to follow in God's footsteps. After many weeks, Chloe was finally persuaded in the Christian life. Rayford had become an aquaintance with Buck Williams and led him to the church, and after much work became a believer. In the midst of all this, the Antichrist, Nicolae Carpathia, swiftly rose to power. His menacing strength caused Buck to be downgraded in his job to move to Chicago, where Bruce Barnes and the Steeles lived. Soon they banded together to form the Tribulation Force, a team of the church to speak out against the Antichrist. They will strive to survive through seven years of Tribulation and hardships before Christ arrives to reign for a 1,000 years. One third of the population of the world will die Christians or not.
Will the Tribulation Force survive? Find out by reading the Left Behind series.
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Summary: Troubling...
Review: Left Behind, as you know, chronicles the end of times. The question that came to my mind is: Who's interpretation of the end of times? Most of what this book uses as it's biblical reference comes from the book of Revelations. Revelations is the most debated and the least understandable book of The Bible. Most of it is written in cryptic metaphor that seems to be, for the most part, lost in translation and open to any interpretation you want it to be.
Central to the plot is the separation, the wheat from the chaff, the sheep from the goats to good from the wicked. Yet, I found it too easy for God to simply pick out the goodies and the baddies. Indeed, if Jesus died for *some* of our sins, why do we worship him at all. Last I checked Christianity wasn't a elite club that only some qualify for. God's grace seems not to enter into this novel.
The book itself was fairly uninteresting, it seemed written by a novice author with subject matter that distracted readers from a pretty poorly written story (see DaVinci Code). Overall, I thought that this book only succeeded in dualizing humanity into good and bad-yet, this metaphor is outdated in today's world. Good and bad no longer cut it, and this writing only succeeds at the over simplification of a religion that is anything but simple.
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Summary: I'M NOT GONNA ARGUE AGAINST THIS BOOK!
Review: The "Left Behind" series has not become one of the most successful best sellers in history because Tim Lahaye and Jerry Jenkins are great writers, or even because it has a superb plot. They would probably be the first to admit that they just managed to tap into the fact that Christianity is what billions of people throughout history have thirsted for, and because those of us who believe (as I freely choose to do) that God makes all things possible. Apocalypse may happen, it may or may not happen in my lifetime. I am not going to argue against the concept. I choose to believe and to hope that my belief and my soul, despite my numerous sins, will be rewarded by Christ's salvation.There is good and evil in this world, and they are constantly battling each other. These battles manifest themselves through wars, politics, the media, hi-jacked religions, slavery, terrorism and the very essence of Satan's method, which is to get good people to do bad things. It is amazing to me how many people refuse to acknowledge the Truth about God, Christ, Satan and the universe, despite what is presented to us every day. The way Nicolae mesmerizes people in the book hits home, and reminds me of my theory that many successful people in Hollywood, rock music, or other endeavors of fame and fortune very possibly made deals with the devil, and their achievements are a result of their Faustian bargains. STEVEN TRAVERS
Author of "Barry Bonds: Baseball's Superman" STWRITES@aol.com
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Summary: Thanks, but I prefer to hang out with the unsaved
Review: This novel basically tells the story of how if you are part of the in-crowd (i.e. you have the same silly mythological beliefs and superstitions as them), then you get to go to everlasting paradise, but if you aren't, well then you hang around and are part of total annihilation. If this sounds like a bad movie script written by a 4th grader after being bullied on the playground, it gets scarier when you realize people make life decisions based on this drivel.
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Summary: Soooo bad
Review: I won't include a synopsis of the plot line in this review. For one thing, plenty of other reviewers have already done that. For another, in all honesty, I only read half the book. I couldn't take any more than that. The writing in this book is sooooo bad, I am stunned that any publisher would actually put their name on it. It is filled with thousands upon thousands of simplistic sentences that seem to average about four words each. Though, in all fairness, it does throw in the odd ultra-run-on sentence that rambles for a paragraph before coming to a pointless close. To make matters worse, even after only reading half the book, I was spoon fed the same story points over and over again by the authors. It seems to show that either the authors can't write, or they have such contempt for the intelligence of their readers that they feel it necessary to cover the same ground repeatedly. One wonders what happened that any editor, agent, or publisher ever gave the original manuscript (presumably in worse shape than it's final publication version) a second look. Definitely skip over this book in your reading. Even if someone gives it to you for free, it isn't worth the time invested, when you could be reading something (anything!) else. If you are looking for good, Christian reading, by authors who can actually write, try anything by: GK Chesterton, Graham Greene, Tolkien, or CS Lewis.
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Summary: Disliking this book does not make you a bad Christian
Review: The scenerios formulated by the authors in this book are interesting but it is unfortunate that the writing is so poor. I found myself forced to read this book out of the sheer curiosity of where it was headed.
The development of the characters is very obvious and at times irritating as there is no depth to them. I tried the second book but stopped a quarter of the way as I couldn't stop myself from nodding off in boredom.
Read the Bible instead. You'll get the story straight from the source with no confusing ideas to worry about.
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Summary: Left Behind Book Review
Review: The book Left Behind, a paperback book by LaHaye Jenkins was a very interesting book to read. This book was well written, and easy to read and understand. The story line was well thought out, and kept the reader sitting on the edge of their seat to see what would happen next. This book went into great detail when explaining views or objects. That made it very easy for a person to imagine what the characters in the book were seeing. On the other hand, this book has its flaws.
The Left Behind story line was stretched out way to much. In other words the book keeps you in suspense way to long for little and big parts of the story. There are times when reading this book you get confused about who is talking because the context is poorly written. This book is in a series that include other books, but when they end the book, they just leave you hanging. They just stop in the middle of a thought. The story overall is great if you get though it.
The story starts out on a commercial flight going overseas. Rayford Steele is the pilot. Rayford is the father of two children a boy and girl, and the husband of a beautiful woman. On the flight overseas something very unusual happens. Many passengers started to disappear. The only thing left behind were their clothes. Everyone was very scared. Rayford turned the plane around and went back to where the had taken off. When he got there, he found that many more people were missing on the ground. Everything was a big mess. Rayford went home to find his wife and son, but found neither. They were lost forever. He called his daughter and she was still on Earth. When Rayford and his daughter were together, they went to the church to find out what had happened. The pastor led them to believe it was the rapture of God. So they formed a group to study more about it, and to be saved so they could go where everyone else went when God came again. There was also a reporter that joined the group. They are all trying to stop the new U.N. leader from taking over the world. He supposedly the anti-Christ. That is the brief inside look at what this book is about.
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Summary: Dumb Story, Silly Plot
Review: Not an interesting read, dumb plot. It's hard to believe that educated people believe this nonsense. Let's put two things together and see what we come up with. First, when bodies are buried, they begin to rot. Within a few months, a buried body turns to bones. Second, these bodies are supposed to resurrect to be with Jesus one day when he returns. Conclusion, rotted bodies are one day going to come out of their graves and float into the sky. I don't know about you but this sounds like a pretty frightening prospect and would be better described as a revised plot for Night of the Living Dead.
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