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Summary: Left behind series Earth Last Days
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By: Sarah Cox Generally you would buy a book that your interested in. It could be a book of romance, mystery, fiction, non-fiction or anything that you're passionate about. My book is a fiction book by Jerry B. Jenkins called Left Behind It is about a flight attendant named Ray and another flight attendant named Hattie Durham, who Ray has a crush on. One flight seems to be going very well and then it turns into a total disaster. . Ray and Hattie notice that people have disappeared on the plane and nothing is left to identify them except for their clothes they left behind. Only the people that believe in God have disappeared. The people that don't believe in Him stayed behind. Many people including Ray and Hattie believe their family members along with millions more family members went to heaven. While the people on earth fear that they were left on earth to live on what they call hell. Then chaos breaks out and everyone else that is not on the plane also disappears. Cars are left on streets and there are pileups and much more horrific events to this fictional story. The details that interested me were the questions that were left to be answered. What really did happen to all these people? Where did all these people go? Did they go to heaven or to hell? Just these serious questions make this fiction story very unpredictable and make you want to never stop reading. I believe that you should buy this book. whether you believe in God or not. It might be offensive to some people that are not Christians. So if you're not a Christian give it a try to seek something new. But, I would buy it because I'm a Christian and I understand what the fictional story is trying to tell me about. I would read this book as much as possible. The reason for that is because it intrigues me and interests me in so many ways. Each time I learn something new from this book. I've read this book and I have learned so much in my religion from this book. When you read this book expect it to be somewhat tough and challenging. Because some of the questions that need to be answered are very challenging and the person reading it may never really never know the real answers to the questions.
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Summary: A Good Start to a Great Series
Review: This book starts the world-reknowned series with the event of Jesus' Rapture of his church. It puts a very down-to-earth spin on characters and happenings around the world. Some may say that the events in this book are illogical, but it reality, if 1/3 of the world's population was to actually disappear, complete chaos would rule, at least for a short while. This book is an interpretation of the book of Revelation for the bible. It is a modern-day, realistic spin on what "could" happen. Most events in this book are based on facts in the bible. Read this book, and remember the events. One day, these events will happen to the world, and those left behind will experience encounters that are very closely related to this fictional story.
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Summary: Embarassment to Christianity
Review: As an evangelical Christian and a lover of literature, I cannot help but feel these books are an embarassment to the faith as well as to good literature itself. I have to admit I read several of them (they came highly recommended) and was apalled at the shallowness of the characters, not to mention the robot-like plots. I kept reading because I thought they couldn't possibly be as bad as I thought, but indeed they continued to get worse as I turned each page. I didn't see the 60 minutes interview that the previous reviewer mentioned, but wish I had. I do not bathe myself in theological rhetoric, and so didn't think I would be overly offended or supportive of anything in the books. I did think I would be able to respect Tim LaHaye in the end, but after reading this bunk, I think his agenda here strictly financial and has no bearing whatsoever to impact people (Christians or non) in a positive way. He should be ashamed of himself for a number of reasons after printing these books, but alas, clearly enjoys the growing popularity these books bring to his bank account. These books prey on the minds of the feeble at heart and people who probably have a pretty shallow understanding of who God is to begin with. I know I do speak for a very large part of evangelical Christianity when I say these books are an embarassment to the faith. Not worth the paper they were printed on. If I could give it zero stars, I would, but they don't let you do that on this Web site.
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Summary: 60 MINUTES BROADCAST exposes the hidden agenda of this novel
Review: I read this novel when it was first published. It took me WEEKS to plow through the repetitive chapters, which were filled with characters who seemed to be nothing more than caricatures of certain types of christians and non-christians. A few chapters in, I began to see the "plot behind the plot."
Put another way, I glimpsed the end message which was: "jump aboard the evangelical bandwagon or you are going to be left behind to suffer." Fiction that pushes a political agenda doesn't interest me, but I forced myself to finish reading. Once done with this --the first in a LONG series it turned out-- I made it a point to not read any of the other novels. If you're already an evangelical Christian, you'll enjoy it. Well, maybe you'll enjoy the message. But the writing? I doubt it. If you're NOT an evangelical, I hope you saw the 60 MINUTES Broadcast on Sunday, February 8, 2004. It was a thoughtful interview which exposed the real (political) message of this series of novels. Reviewer: Linda Painchaud
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Summary: Great Premise, Mediocre Execution
Review: This book, like the series it begins, takes a great premise...and fritters it away. The premise is that Biblical prophesies of the end times are true in the most literal possible sense. The opening chapters are good, as millions of Christians are carried to God in the blink of an eye, leaving behind little piles of clothing, rings, watches, false teeth-and driverless cars, planes, and buses. Also good is the way those who remain-the Left Behind of the title-seek to make sense of it all. A few recognize the event for what it is, but most turn to contrived explanations that exclude God: probably just what would indeed happen. Then the story stumbles. It would be better if it were presented as something like Christian science fiction-an extended "what if?" scenario similar to C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, or Narnia, or The Great Divorce. Instead, we get sermons on the details of the prophetic interpretation underlying that "what if"-designed to show which details of the scenario the authors believe are predicted by scripture, and which they invented to fill gaps. It doesn't matter whether you agree with the sermons or not. After a while, they kill the narrative in its tracks. Instead of a visceral story of people trying to come to grips with the Rapture, we get the start of a 12-book series, padded with hundreds of pages of sermons. As the series progresses, the plot also degenerates into a boring drone of car chases and narrow escapes. I am seven volumes into it and getting very tired of characters spending all their time running from things. These books are best for Christians seeking an action-adventure alternative to oversexed secular literature, especially if you don't really care that the plotting and characters are somewhat clunky. But beware of using anything more than this, the first book, as an evangelical tool. Your non-Christian friend may be used to better plotting. If you're looking for an action-adventure with a strong Christian character, try Alistair MacLean's Cold War spy novel, The Secret Ways. I don't know whether MacLean, author of Guns of Naverone, was a Christian, but he created an unforgettable Christian character. Meanwhile, Left Behind gets three stars: four for the premise but only two for the execution.
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Summary: I wanna be left behind
Review: Is this what moronic evangelical Christians are reading? The Heaven's Gate cult made more sense. What absurd nonsense.
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Summary: okay if read as a novel
Review: When I first read this book I thought it was interesting but it sure didn't go with what I remembered from the Bible. In my Bible study groups we had not covered Revelations that much, so I had to go look up a few things. I discovered that many of the evangelists use a Bible written by a man named Scofield. He came from a dubious background. Look him up on the internet. While in prison for forgery, he converted to Christianity, of the Darbyite influence. Anyway, he ended up writing a Bible using his interpretations of what it meant, so of course, then he has changed it to his liking. But what the authors are saying is that we, believers in Jesus, will receive this Rapture they are talking about instead of going through the tribulations, but the original Bible does not say this. So I am wondering, if Armegeddon comes, and the Christians who believe what the authors are preaching, when they don't receive this Rapture when promised, will that make them turn away from God? Is this more a Satanic than a Christian book? I don't know, but I would suggest that before you take it as gospel, that you should look a little deeper. Jesus warned of us the false prophets. One thing good about the book is that it does make one want to get right with God. You might want to read the book "Forcing God's Hands..." by Grace Halsell, she has written a book explaining how this evangelical belief started and what it means and it is truly scary for the people of this world.
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Summary: We're doomed.
Review: When this kind of poorly written nonsense reaches mainstream recognition, you know we're on the road to cultural obliteration.
There is as much character development as in an uninspired installment of the Friday the 13th movies, no action, no plot... Just a bit of a horror story clearly designed to instill the fear of god into fence sitters. The biggest sin of this book is to not clearly identify itself as extreme christian material. I picked it up before a trip thinking it might be an interesting thriller, and I had no idea it would be such an idiotic, monodimensional, religion-obsessed piece of nonsense. Of course the book fanatics will tell you that it's simply an accurate description of what is going to happen soon so you'd better start praying. Anyway, I just wanted to warn you before you pick up this book: if you're born again there's nothing in the book you don't already know by heart, so save your money; and if you're a normal person with at least half of a functioning brain the inanity of this book will make your skin crawl before the end of the third chapter, guaranteed.
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Summary: Hehehehehe...
Review: Silly fairly tales. Even on its own bottom shelf level it is very poorly written stuff. Anyone who really believes this as truth is clearly a moron.
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Summary: "God Needs 12 Step Program!" or "4000 years of resentment"
Review: Hit, kick, bite, maim. Good golly! Love me or I'll hurt you. The king of hostage takers is shown for what he, she, or it is. The petulant son of no-one is pissed because some creations haven't lived up to his expectations. In A.A., they call expectations "reservations for resentments". Furthermore they point out resentments lead to failure. Boy does the God in "Left Behind" need therapy!!!! His, her, or its psycosis leads him, her, or it to believe WE made him do it. "LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO !!!!!!!!!!!!!' It's all our fault!
Another explanation for why the people disappear in the beginning is that THEY WERE THE MASOCHISTS. Who wants to hurt people if they are going to like it?
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