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Summary: Awsome Book!!!
Review: I usually hate to read, but found myself not wanting to put this book down. This is one book that will not find it's way to my book shelf, but will be passed on to each and everyone of those I love and don't want to be "Left Behind". I can't wait to get the next book and am looking forward to reading more of the series to come
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Summary: Could'nt put it down, can't wait to read the sequel
Review: Its charactors are believable as well as the close parallel with the book of Revelation. I have found from my Bible studies, that all these events are plausible and quite likely from a biblical perspective. Its effect was as intense as the movie Independence Day
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Summary: Could'nt put it down, can't wait to read the sequel
Review: Its charactors are believable as wel as the close parallel with the book of revelation. I have found from my bible studies, that all these events are plausible and quite likely from a biblical perspective. Its effect was as intense as the movie Independence Day
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Summary: This is a great wake up call book.
Review: I was so impressed by this book. I was even scared to continue reading at some points. What an eye opener to what the world will be like after the Rapture. I most definitely do no want to be left behind. Do you
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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: Chaotic times are on the horizon for those LEFT BEHIND.
Review: Just close your eyes and think of all those times when individuals you consider "super-religious" have spoken of Jesus returning for "His people". Get this book and read it from cover to cover, riveted in wonder at the scenario ingeniously unfolded from page to exciting page. You will not want to close your eyes again unless you are sure that you will be one of those taken, and not LEFT BEHIND!
The pages of fiction too accurately describe what it will be like on earth shortly after the Rapture of the Church. You will not want to put it down until you have digested every single word. This is one marvelous book
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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: No stupid puns on the title in this review. I promise!
Review: Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, Left Behind (Tyndale, 1995) So I figured after nine years, it was time for me to get around to reading the first book in the bestselling Christian fiction series in history, Left Behind. I had always avoided it, not because of the subject matter, but by and large books that break records tend to be writ large by those with the wit, talent, and grammatical skill of overly enthusiastic six-year-olds. Dame Barbara Cartland, Danielle Steel, Tom Clancy, John Grisham, Sandra Brown, you get the idea. Why should Christian fiction be any different?, I wondered. But despite all that, I dove into it. Expecting the worst may not have been enough. To call the book naïve would be, perhaps, too kind. It uses the conventions of satire without being in any way satiric, treats its readership like total idiots, has all the spelling and grammar mistakes one could possibly want from a mass-produced piece of claptrap, and various other things, all of which I will attempt to make sound as tactful as possible below. But the bottom line, for those who would rather stop reading now, is this: plot's not bad, but execution is some of the worst I have seen outside self-publishing. Ever. Without getting into the theological aspects of the book, it is impossible to write a comprehensive review of Left Behind without at least glossing over some of the more interesting (and less Biblical) assertions made by the authors, the most notable being the Rapturing (for lack of a better term) of everyone under the age of puberty. Hmmmmm. Including the ones in juvenile detention for murder? Okay, we'll drop the point. After all, our society is based (wrongly) on the idea that people can't make up their minds until they reach the magic age of eighteen. At least LaHaye and Jenkins dropped the magic age to twelve, for which they must get grudging respect. But little niggling theological concerns are perhaps less galling than LaHaye and Jenkins' complete and utter inability to ascribe a mote of intelligence to any of their characters, and by inference any of their audience. Not being a Christian and a regular attendee at church, I can't say for certain what the average joe learns about the end times. But even without regular church attendance for the last number of years, I remember enough of the Revelation of St. John from Bible study back in the day to have seen all the major twists coming at least a hundred pages before they actually do. And yet his characters, including the wife and daughter of a fundamentalist, are completely oblivious. Writing a book like this as a mystery/thriller, it seems, was not the way to go. Or if it were, perhaps adding a couple of extras who might have looked like they, too, could be the Antichrist might have helped with the suspense angle. (They do attempt a move exactly like this, but way too late and way too ineffectively.) I spent at least a hundred fifty pages of this book wondering, "where's the satire?" It was, of course, absent; LaHaye and Jenkins are deadly serious about approaching this series as novels mirroring the born-again Christian take on the end times. And yet despite their seriousness, they embrace the conventions of satire with open arms. Their businesses are thinly-disguised actual corporations with names that, in other circumstances, might be considered clever digs at those companies; their characters' names are ludicrous without being prophetic, a favorite mechanism of Dickens and Pynchon; the characters are often overwrought (and, really, it takes a good deal of mastery of the dime novel to make characters overact ON PAPER!); the aforementioned predictability in the mystery; you name it. It's all got the surface makings of great satire. Which makes me wonder how cool it would actually be if, after the series is finished, LaHaye and Jenkins called a press conference and yelled "April fools!" But I don't see that happening, and neither do you. Fully addressing the spelling and grammatical horrors in this book would take a book-length review, so we'll just note their existence, sneer at them, and move on to the stilted dialogue, the characters (who are cardboard cutouts of the thinnest stripe) and their inability to relate to one another (aside from, one assumes, snickering at the silliness of each others' names in the background), the constant use of cliché, the stopping of the plot every once in a while to throw in some gratuitous moralization (but this being right-wing Christian fiction, I expected a three-hundred-page altar call; I was not disappointed), and all the other little pieces of amateurism that add up to this book being of such horrible architecture that its popularity is really worth weeping over for the lover of the English language. It is obvious, here more than anywhere, that people are more than willing to overlook fatal flaws in the language as long as they can understand the book's message. St. McLuhan has lost the battle once and for all, and sixty-two million copies of the Left Behind novels speak with the public's booming voice: the message is the medium. It's enough to make a body want to give up reading. * ½
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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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