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Summary: One Of The BEST Fiction Books I Have Read
Review: I agree with the reviewer that said this book is not for the politically correct, it isn't. This book does show some of the realities of our world however. The mystery plot was pretty easy to figure out but the depth of the other issues kept the book interesting. I appreciated someone talking about what the media is really like.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This is one of the best novels that I have ever read. Alcorn tackles numerous issues along with having a great story line. If you are one who has viewed Heaven as a pretty boring place with non stop harp music, he will give you some fresh viewpoints to ponder. All in all a great book!
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Summary: Deeply Moving
Review: One of the best books I have ever read. Deeply moving. The descriptions of heaven brought me to tears and the mystery and action were very interesting. I loved this book.
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Summary: Good but not a must read.
Review: I thought the beginning of the book pulled you in but it left you waiting for more. The book carrys you on a interesting journey and leads you to an abrupt stop. I felt like the author did have time to come up with a decent ending so he rushed through the ending. I felt cheated. The author draws an interesting picture of what heaven is like. The imagery alone makes the book work the read.
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Summary: Overly simplistic, but generally true..
Review: I came into reading "Deadline" knowing that it was Christian fiction, so I did expect the possiblity that the author could be dogmatic. Reading Alcorn's work, there is some dogma attached, which seems to indicate that he didn't think it through enough, or he let his own bias get in the way of the truth. Anyway, Alcorn paints a picture of a liberal journalist surviving a car "accident" that killed his two best friends, Dr. Greg Lowell and Finnegan "Finney" Keels. As you expect, Doc and Finney had opposite views of Christianity, and Alcorn depicts their respective fates as according to Scripture. This is the true part. The false because they are misleadly simple areas are the author's abortion scenarios(a morally complicated problem in reality) which boil down to "in every case, a mother must give birth to a living child". This ignores the complex nature of the debate, which I won't discuss here. Also, the author has a "homosexuals are free to change" approach that doesn't work out well in reality. Alcorn does get some journalistic ethos right, and I admire his honesty about that, but he paints liberals with a broadbrush(Jimmy Carter, a DEMOCRAT, is a very godly man, despite what the author may think) that is factually inaccurate. The book only musters 3 stars, because while the action is great, the story is overly preachy, and makes weak arguments.
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Summary: A book that makes you think
Review: This book is not for the politically correct! It makes you think about issues that many of us try not to think about, but it presents them wrapped in an engrossing story. I loved the book so much I ran right out to buy the next one. The views of heaven have changed my whole perspective about it. I highly reccomend this book to anyone who is not afraid to buck the political correctness of our world.
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Summary: Simply The Best Modern-day Fiction Book Ever Written!
Review: Randy Alcorn managed to put together the perfect novel. This 424 page masterpiece, otherwise known as Deadline, manages to cover almost every subject one can think of concerning the human struggle. Sex, homosexuality, abortion, marriage, infidelity, life, death, racism, politics, dating, murder, and religion are just some of the topics Mr. Alcorn manages to weave into this brilliant achievement.The main character, Jake Woods, is an award-winning journalist who thinks he has �it� all figured out. But when tragedy abruptly throws his world into a tailspin, he begins to question his tidy view of the universe. Most of us have developed our opinions based on those around us and the data they have tossed our way. This novel makes you ask tough questions about why we believe what we believe. Is there really such a thing as truth? In a world supposedly created by chance, how can there truly be any such thing as right and wrong? If I were going to be stranded on a desert island and only allowed to bring one fiction novel with me, this would be the one. I have never read any other fictional novel that can touch it. At least not one written in the past fifteen years.
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