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Summary: Deceptive and Manipulative
Review: This is a very upsetting novel. Upsetting due to the extent towhich it sets out to deceive the reader!
Purporting to be ascience-fiction novel, it is in reality a fundamentalist Christian book that is attempting to gain new followers by scare tactics. It also has a very simplistic plot and characterisations, which would appeal to the gullible.... My recollection of Revelation was that there were only a relatively few who were "chosen" (I think it was 144,000 people). However in this book nearly every family in the USA, and many other countries, have at least one person who is actually taken up to Christ. This of course causes immense suffering and hardship for their loved ones. But who cares--certainly not the authors of this? They are part of the elite and this elevates them above actually caring about their fellow human beings. They feel smug knowing they are amongst the chosen few. Also, the book is just one in a series and this was not made clear anywhere on the cover-more deception. Nothing much actually happens in this story. In fact, there are only about two significant events in the whole book. One occurs at the very beginning of the story and then we need to wade through the rest of the story before something else significant occurs. Then the story ends, and we need to wait until the next novel.
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Summary: WOW
Review: This was the best book I've read in a long time. It sure makes you stop and look at your life and those around you. It is a page turner..Once you start it you won't want to put it down.. GREAT BOOK and Series
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Summary: This is an AMAZING book!
Review: From the second you start this book to the very last page, you will be hypnotized by this book and the message that goes along with it. This is a story about the Rapture of the Church and the people left behind after millions disappear from all over the globe. One seemingly normal day, Rayford Steele is flying his airplane and then his main flight attendant comes into the cockpit to inform him that lots of people are missing all throughout the cabin. When they land the plane, they learn that millions of people are missing or dead. Rayford gets home to find that his wife and son are both missing, and he realizes that the Rapture has taken place. He also learns that his daughter, Chloe, has not disappeared or been killed and she returns home immiediatly. Meanwhile, Buck Williams, reporter for the "Global Weekly", who was also on Rayford's flight, is assigned the story about the dissapearances, and another story about a rising Romanian leader, Nicholae Carpathis, who is steadily rising in power. Newly saved Christians believe that he might be the Antichrist that prophets talked about in the book of Revealations. To find out about Rayford, Chloe, Buck, and if Carpathia is the Antichrist read "Left Behind" by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.
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Summary: Left Behind
Review: Fantastic! You will not be able to put this book down, and you will immediately want to buy the rest of the series. What makes this really special is not the rivetting story line, although you will be fascinated at the interplay between characters. The apparent co-incidences which give rise to the various sub-plots make you realise that this is fiction afterall. Its uniqueness comes from its immersion in the book of Revelation and it not only proves faithful to the events described in Revelation, but helps the reader gain a greater insight into Revelation itself. Reading "Revelation Unveiled" by LaHaye as a companion book I found very helpful. The characters in the book are very lifelike and one finds that you are transported into their minds at a time when they need to explain why so many of their friend shave been raptured. In some ways a frightening book, especially for the non-Christian who has no basis for hope in the future. As a Christian, I gained reassurance from the book and fresh hope for the future.
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Summary: How not to make converts to God
Review: The book is heavy-handed preaching, thinly disguised as fiction. Paper-thin characters and a creaky plot. What it does have is an money-making appeal to human fears and insecurities. If God can be conceived as acting as the book proposes, I'll stick to humans who have a loving concern for each other.
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Summary: Wonderful. It could save your life.
Review: The first book of this unbelievable series introduces us to the main characters in the following books as well as showing what the world might be like following the Rapture. This is very well written, although due to it's introductery nature, it does not have the action and fast pace of the later books. Please read this series. It just may save your life.
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Summary: Stunning
Review: Do not think for one minute that this book will not change the way you feel about your life and the influence you have upon others. For once, I have completed a book that actually centers on the soul without preaching. The characters, circumstances, and twists make for a read that will not soon be forgotten. Jenkins and Lahaye have created a masterpiece series for an evolving world. Believers and Non-believers alike should read this book and follow with rest of the series.
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Summary: man o man
Review: from the minute i began reading the book till the day i turned the last page i was spellbound to say the least. this book perfectly mixed together fictional story telling with biblical text, all while showing the reader ways to be a better Christian. this depending on who you are may or may not be a good thing, because a few times during the book, the emphasis on Christian values is used a bit too much and too heavily. Other than that, the book is a definite need to buy and is in my opinionn great material for a movie script. i just kept turnin the pages, in one word.....addictive.
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Summary: A Realization of what will transpire during the Rapture
Review: This book sheds a lot of light for the non believers. People that don't know God need to read this book and maybe they will open their eyes to what the world will be like during the start of tribulation. I found this book to be very informative. Made me what to say an extra prayer for those that are unsaved. I can't wait to start on the next book.
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Summary: Left Behind--A Must Read (and Read Again)
Review: No matter where you stand in your personal beliefs, Tim Lahaye and Jerry Jenkins will call you to self-examination. There is no way to either put this book down or remain passive during your reading. It calls for a decision without ever asking for one. This book could as easily be pulled from the headlines of USA Today or off of a television news magazine as from its source, the Bible. The development of characters and the plot place you as one of the participants deciding your own fate. This book is one that can not be kept to one's self. After spending the last 12 years on airplanes and reading during much of my travel, no book has stimulated as much comment as Left Behind. I have yet to be on a flight where no one has read it. Do not miss out. On either the book or to the opportunities it calls you.
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