The Rapture of Canaan

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Summary: A good read!
Review: Had I known this was an Oprah book I might not have read it. Oprah's choices have disappointed me well more than just once or twice. However, The Rapture Of Canaan wasn't inundated with gratuitous tears (although I did shed a few) and/or completely unbelievable and totally far-fetched characters. This was an easy to read and interesting story. When I picked it up in the bookstore I selected it strictly because of its alluring cover and provocative title. So sometimes, it seems, a book can be justifiably judged simply by its cover.

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Summary: Wonderful Book!!
Review: Once again Oprah has picked a winner. This was a great book! I Like some of the other reviewers didn't do anything for 2 days until I read the last word. I have passed this book to other friends who have enjoyed it as much as I did. Read this book you will NOT be disappointed you did.

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Summary: Great! Hated the ending tho
Review: What a great book! I couldn't wait to find out what happens to Ninah and her child, but when I got to the end, I was disappointed. That's why only 4 stars. But it made me feel so many emotions and really care about the characters. Truly a great book.

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Summary: Thought-provoking and truthful
Review: What a read! I couldn't put it down. Teen-age Ninah Huff grows up in the Church of Fire and Brimstone and God's Almighty Baptizing Wind, a cult founded by her grandfather. The cult not only preaches against sin, but actively punishes it. When Ninah becomes pregnant, she claims the baby is Jesus'. I found this work of "fiction" to be truthful and thought-provoking. It's hard to read it and not look at religion as whole with a skeptical eye.

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Summary: Excellent story of a girl living in a religious commune
Review: This book kept me reading and turning pages. Ninah, always wanted to do what was right in the eyes of the religion she was brought up in but she also didn't understand why the "right" choices only seemed to pertain to the commune she lived in and not for everyone at school. She made some wrong choices but could justfy them as right choices because she prayed about her dilemas and she felt that God answered her prayers with the decision she chose. Actually there are a lot of people that do the same thing in real life. This book will NOT disappoint you if you choose to read it. It is fiction but it is such an education of religious fanatics and the demeaning punishments that are put upon sins or mistakes made. Excellent book with much, much more story twists than I've mentioned..........teen pregnancy, entering high school, questioning religion, suicide, commune living and sharing wages earned, and a lot more. Like I said.....EXCELLENT BOOK. It will make you think.

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Summary: a real page turner!
Review: "Rapture" is the kind of book that you feel compelled to pick up and read a few pages while stopped at a red light. It has become this summer's "must read" for anyone looking for a great book.

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Summary: Astounding
Review: This book is beautiful. Sheri Reynolds has a remarkable talent, and she weaves this tale of love, misplaced power, and finding the truth in an unforgettable pattern that will leave its mark on you. There were places in this book where I had to simply put it down for a moment, because the intensity of the feelings invoked were so overwhelming. I highly reccomend this book, as well as her others, because this whimsical and introspective author does not dissapoint.

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Summary: This is a read that lasts for years
Review: I read this wonder years ago, I still love and recommend it. It is the kind of book where the characters become your friends and you count it among your all time favorites. Sadly, Ms. Reynolds other works come nowhere near this.

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Summary: A fantastic book about personal growth and courage
Review: This book starts off slowly but then takes off and hits its peak when the main character makes her leap of intellectual and emotional growth. Ninah wants very much to do the right thing, be a good Christian, but when she is faced with a great temptation she buckles and gives in to it and tells herself that her act was the will of Jesus, but the lie she told herself and others spins out of control til she finally realizes just how dangerous it is to delude others and even more devestating to delude ourselves. Ninah's plight as a young teenage girl who gets pregnant in a cruelly strict cult,convincing herself and others that she's carrying Jesus's baby is interesting enough, but the moment in which she grows up, finds her own culpability in life and at the same times finds enough courage and emotional growth to be able to triumph in the midst of chaos is... well...stunning.

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Summary: YOU WILL NEVER FORGET THIS BOOK
Review: This book was amazing. It will forever remain with me. Ninah's struggles were heartwrenching but so necessary. The plot moved at a nice pace. The characters were colorful and real. As a strong Christian it really made me think. This book is for everyone, whether you are religious or not.