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Summary: The Best of the Rest
Review: All I can say is this beats everything out there to dust. Left Behind is nothing compared to Christ Clone Trilogy!
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Summary: Only gets better !!!!
Review: Book two of "The Christ Clone" trilogy is better than the first. The beginning of the end has started and no one knows who to turn to for salvation. Who will stop the tribulations. Who will lead humanity through the horrors sent to them? Is Christopher Goodman the person to do it...or not?This book contans some of the best written scenes of destruction ever put to paper. As the final plagues hit the Earth James Beauseignuer paints a realistic picture of the gruesome events man faces. These sequences are so vivid they rival anything in the best written horror novels (there is a scence invovling an asteroid that has some of the most gripping writing I've ever read!) The suffering the people go through is palpable. A great setup for the conclusion.
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Summary: Don't miss the fist great books about Revelations.
Review: For many years now, there have been an awful lot of books produced about Revelations. The emphasis is on awful. For whatever reason, those books have often been poorly writen, preachy to the point of offensive, and completely lacking any real spiritual insight. Finally, in the last few years, two authors have produced amazing books about Revelations. Brian Caldwell's We All Fall Down is the first truly mature look at Revelations. It's not a book for people looking to stand at a distance, as it is an emotionally devistating piece of fiction. It is raw and uncompromising, a book that will grab you by the throat and shake your soul. I don't think I have ever read a book that challenged me to examine my faith so strongly. BeauSeigneur's Christ Clone Trilogy is equally impressive, if in a different way. While Caldwell's book focuses on the spiritual psychology of a single character, Beausigneur tackles the big picture. His novels are intellegent and incredibly well-researched. His novels make you believe that the end of the world could happen, not just spiritually, but intellectually as well. The two authors complement each other quite well, with BeauSigneur tackling the big picture and Caldwell zeroing in on the personal. What both writers have in common is a perfect ear for dialouge, a scathing intellegence, and an insight into spiritual matters that was exciting to read. After suffering through so many second rate novelists tackle revelations, it was an incomparable pleasure to read these magnificent books.
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Summary: What a wonderful time to be a Christian lover of literature!
Review: For so many years, a Christian's only real option to read quality Christian literature was to read the marevelous C.S. Lewis. I feel blessed in the the last couple of years with the outpouring of quality literature now available. What's more, the different books are all very different. Left Behind is a wonderful introduction to the theology behind the End Times and a great series for all ages. We All fall down is a great book for more mature, intellegent Christians who wsnt to explore the individual ramifications of the End Times and the one on one relationship of a man who has fallen away from God. The Christ Clone Trilogy is a thrilling, Tom Clancey like look at these events, full of unexpected twists and turns. I know some people like to argue the various merits of these books as compared to each other, but I think they are all worth reading and feel lucky to finally have such a wide variety of GREAT Christian literature available.
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Summary: Really not even worth rating
Review: I didn't finish this book - I stopped my misery! I really only read the first few pages and bits and peaces as I skimed through the pages. It's just as poorly written as the first (In His Image - see my review there) and just as BORING. The only reason I even started this book was that I spent my $6.99 on it - thank goodness I didn't buy the third book in the triology. Mr. Beauseigneur has a LOT to learn with regard to writing - perhaps he should take a couple of courses on creative writing! He could do with some instruction on how to develop his characters. Well, no matter - I know the story (the REAL one) and know how it ends!
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Summary: non-religious conservatives stop at book two!
Review: I found the first two books enjoyable, quick reads. This third book seemed like a springing trap descending on me while I was lulled by the interests of the first two books. Its plot brought back all the lovely feelings of my youth with pushy religious zealots trying to convert through fear, confusion and morally superior judgementalism.
At first, I was intrigued that the author chose a mix of religious conservency and socially extreme liberal messages. I actually found myself highly impressed that the author would casually drop in such controversial concepts like euthenasia in a book so obviously targeting an audience that would find it ethically difficult. I was deeply dissapointed to find that this and other issues had been a long set up for a very poor joke on the reader.
I should have realized the author possessed little professional bravery much earlier though. At every turn when the author presented a topic that would be objectionable to a fundementalist, he added a footnote stating that they needed to read his forward. The forward was the biggest cop out that I have seen in a while. It reminds the reader to wait until the end (pretty clear that there will be a twist that undoes this eh?). It also makes clear that the author is unwilling to own up to his own work by showing where his own feelings and beliefs lie. The need to reiterate constantly that no character represents his views is just weak. I'm sure it will help him fend off some criticism, but is should open him up to a new class of criticism.
I feel like I've been fooled.
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Summary: Brilliant way of telling the story.
Review: I read the book in two days, could not put it down. Being a Left Behind series reader, loved this book. When the drama unfolds you expect one thing and another happens. The play with word and characters is fascinating. Already on book three. Can't jump to conclusions while reading the book.
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: In 2019, China, India, and Pakistan finally break into the war that everyone has been expecting for decades. The death toll in the one-day debacle will probably reach billions once the aftermath of radiation and feral animals occurs. In Jerusalem, John the Apostle born during the First coming leads over one hundred thousand Messianic Jews with extraordinary super powers. He joins forces with powerful Hassidic Rabbi Saul Cohen and their followers soon cause asteroids to crash into the already damaged planet as John plans the beginning of the apocalypse. Locust, plagues, and famine are becoming the order of the day, as the end of time seems imminent for those left behind. Humanity's only hope is in God's son, Christopher Goodman, but is he really the second coming since he was actually scientifically cloned from cells found on the Shroud of Turin (see IN HIS IMAGE). However, after consulting with his father and studying the bible, Christopher must do the impossible and remain patient for the right moment to intercede though many die and most suffer. The second novel in the "Christ Clone" trilogy is an exciting, extremely complex tale that continues the theme from the first tale of blending science with the End of Days predictions of Revelations. The story is very complicated, but it will help the audience to understand this book better if the first novel is read before this enthralling tale. Though some Christian readers will object to elements in the series, most of the Left Behind crowd and those readers who enjoy apocalypse tales like The Prophet series will appreciate James Beauseigneur's novels and look forward to the conclusion. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Loved it
Review: In His Image (the first book of the trilogy) was a great read but had me confused at times. This one (Birth of an Age) is down right fabulous. I loved it and recommend it to all.
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Summary: Christopher Makes his Move.
Review: In this second book of the Christ Clone Trilogy, author BeauSeigneur chillingly fleshes out the cataclysmic events foretold in Revelations in an easy to read novel format. From the first installement, the reader followed the early life of Christopher Goodman, a genetically engineered human being whose DNA was removed from the Shroud of Turin. Now Christopher has achieved a certain amount of power and respect as a powerful delegate of a newer and stronger United Nations and with the help of powerful New Age allies has positioned himself to become the ultimate world leader. Birth of an Age depicts Christopher's ascent to sovereignty as the rest of the world sits back horrified as the predictions of the apostle John and Saul Cohen in Israel come to pass with blood curdling accuracy. BeauSeigneur scientifically and realistically portrays the discovery of three asteroids due to collide with the earth, the plague of locusts and the horror of a sickness that pits man against his loved ones. The cataclysmic events move the novel along at such a pace that I was shocked and dismayed to discover that I was turning the last page---and did not have the final novel of the trilogy on hand! All the fast moving brutality takes you at break neck speed to a climatic event that allows Christopher to reveal who he actually is within the scheme of the three books; I look forward to reading the concluding work; I am interested in discovering how BeauSeigneur will dispute Christopher's theory of God and depict the Second Coming. The author's style of writing, as other reviewers have commented, is not exactly literary, rather it is designed to move the plot along in an easy to read almost television-magazine format that works. Beauseigneur is not preachy, he tells his tale in a compelling fashion with appropriate citations from the Bible. An all and all great follow-up to the first novel.
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