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Summary: Unrealistic book idealizes marriage.
Review: My take on this book is slightly different from all the others on this page. I think this book is disappointing because of its theology of marriage. The first book in the series demonstrated, rightly so, that Christian singles can live healthy Christian lives in challenging times without being married. The four main characters, all single, valiantly battle for the right, without becoming distracted by marital commitments. This seems to be in keeping with Paul's comments in 1 Cor. 7 about how it is better not to marry, especially when facing the end of the world.However, this book reverses all that. Two of the four protagonists fall in love with each other, and another meets and marries a minor character, who seems to have been invented only for the sake of providing a way for the other character to get married. In this book, confronting the evil of the antichrist takes a backseat to the loftier goal of falling in love and getting married. What's the underlying message of the book? That real Christians get married, while single Christians get killed. The authors have been captured by an evangelical focus-on-the-family theology that leaves little or no room for Christians who are single. They seem to promote the view that if you don't get married, you might as well roll over and die. Unfortunately, such a Christianity does not represent the biblical teachings of either Jesus or the apostle Paul, both of whom were single. Sadly, the comments about this book being nothing more than a formulaic romance novel are right on the mark. This book marginalizes singles, sets up unrealistic idealizations of marriage, and does not represent a balanced, biblical view that honors the value of both marriage and singleness. END
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Summary: Great Follow Up!
Review: First off I have to say that I am glad I'm starting this series after most of the books have been published! Both Left Behind, and the follow up, Tribulation Force had such "shocking" endings, I don't think I could have waited for the next books to be published. Although I have just finished the second book, I am really into this series and can't wait to start the next one. In Tribulation Force we see Rayford, Chloe, Buck, and Bruce pull to together to study what is to come in the next seven years. We also see Nicolae work his evil ways to get the power he wants. It was nice though to see a love between Buck and Chloe develop, espically when they need all the happiness they can get. I have been telling everyone about this series it has struck me as being so wonderful! So now I'll tell you too, read up and enjoy!
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Summary: Don't waste time with this one...
Review: Keeping it simple - if you like conspiracy stories then this is NOT one of them. It was given to me as a cospiracy story and since I can't not finish a book once I started it I read it through and was vastly disappointed. I read the first book in the series since there was nothing else to read on the airplane I was on.
This is quick, clueless, predicable and poorly-written. I am not an author nor a writer but I at least know a door-stop when I'm given one to read from.
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Summary: Great Follow Up!
Review: First off I have to say that I am glad I'm starting this series after most of the books have been published! Both Left Behind, and the follow up, Tribulation Force had such "shocking" endings, I don't think I could have waited for the next books to be published. Although I have just finished the second book, I am really into this series and can't wait to start the next one. In Tribulation Force we see Rayford, Chloe, Buck, and Bruce pull to together to study what is to come in the next seven years. We also see Nicolae work his evil ways to get the power he wants. It was nice though to see a love between Buck and Chloe develop, espically when they need all the happiness they can get. I have been telling everyone about this series it has struck me as being so wonderful! So now I'll tell you too, read up and enjoy!
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Summary: The best book!
Review: Intriguing, exciting, fast paced drama. The 2nd book brings a whole new perspective on the view of the new testiment. As the book unfolds, evil, love, hatred, preaching, understanding, and death are entwined, leading to whatever there is to come.
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Summary: You've got to be stupid or really really ignorant to like ..
Review: This book is one of the most badly written pieces of trash I have ever read. The characters are shallow and unbelievable. Instead of wasting your time and money, go to some fundamentalist church and listen for 10 minutes. Stupid, stupid book. Toilet paper is more useful.
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Summary: Fun reading, but there is better out there
Review: A fun series for those who enjoy hoping you are on the right side of the Rapture, but it pales in comparison to Steve Alten's Domain Series (DOMAIN, with part 2, RESURRECTION just released) which blends both religion, archaeological mysteries, and the science of the afterlife into his page-turning thrillers.
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Summary: A Good Continuation, but not the best yet!
Review: I loved this one. I read this boook in 3 days. To this date, I have never read a book so fast. I love to read; however, I am not a very fast reader, but this one I could not put down. It really takes the characters to a new level, but as with all "series" oriented books, the middle usually isn't as good as the beginning or the end. This is the "Empire Strikes Back" of the sereis.....a GREAT book, to be sure, but the following books are much more intense!
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Summary: Hope...
Review: These books really give me hope. However unlikely it seems, the idea that everyone on the planet who is gullible enough to believe this nonsense might suddenly disapear is a great comfort to me.
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Summary: ... and then what happens?
Review: Usually the books I prefer to read challenge my mind, and I am a firm believer that you cannot have too many dictionaries in the house (or tissue boxes or small waste baskets, for that matter). I like books that have a fairly good ending (I hate "The Lady or the Tiger" type of ending!), since real life does not give happy endings ... real life doesn't give endings!
After reading the First of the "Left Behind" series, I am now add bibles for reference with the dictionaries.
Dan Brown started it with "The Da Vinci Code", now I am hooked!
I suggest buying the boxed set of the first four of the series; and if they don't hook you, you have only bought one set. But have the following releases waiting in the wings ... you may get hooked as well.
Most pages are done in a good font that is easy on the eyes. However, and this is truly odd, a few pages, scattered through out the book, are in a smaller, unfriendly font; the kind that creates headaches from eyestrain if you do not have perfect vision.
Our heroes, the core group, have come to terms with their beliefs, and given themselves the title of the Tribulation Force. Both the characters and reader become increasingly stunned that most of the rest of the world has already forgotten being Left Behind, or attribute the missing to some UFO phenomenon, freak of nature or whatever, and are going on with their lives. They know, but working in close proximity to the man who might very well be the Anti-Christ, are astounded at the lengths the human mind will go to in order to persevere the common ideology.
Here you have good people placed in situations that make you Think .. what would I do? What do I hope Iwould do VS what I would most likely do?
What are the origins Nickolai, other than the Romania? Is "Carpathia" just his name, or an allegroy to the most most well-known horror stories of all time?
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