Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days (Left Behind #1)

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Summary: Will change your life-- for ever!
Review: This is actually a review of the entire series.

Left Behind starts with a very interesting and entertaining promise. After all, scenes like the one in the UN reads like a scene in a horror movie. Personally, I at first thought of the series as a sort of religious horror novel. The UN scene, for example, is very scary.

Then came books five and six. By the time I read those books, I was already hooked into the series. I wanted to read the books until I got to the end because I wanted to see what would happen to the characters. Will they get caught and killed? Will they survive? If so, how?

This is the point where I would like to warn people thinking about reading the series that the series goes on for twelve books that are each around 300 pages. Also, the authors use all twelve books to tell one story. Thus, a person getting started on the series will need to know whether or not they want to invest the amount of time in this series required to twelve books just to be told one story.

The problem with this is that there was one point when the authors wanted to tell the story in seven books. At about the time that book five came out, the authors started to stretch the story-line. What I am trying to say is that, even though the way the story is told in the first book is not that great, the plot keeps getting thinner ans thinner, making the writing of the rest of the series worse with each subsequent book.

On top of that, the books start trying to incorporate more and more characters' points of view. The first four go back and forth between Buck's point of view and Rayford's point of view. After the first few books, the authors start trying to incorporate more and more points of view until the characters get to be hard to distinguish from one another.

Another thing the first few books have going for them is the fact that they show Lahaye's ideas about the events leading to the return of Jesus Christ. The first few books do a good job at pointing out various events and where Layhaye gets his ideas about the end of times from. However this also gets more and more watered down as the series progresses. By the end of the series, the story has become nothing more than a cowboys and indians type of story, with Rayford and the Tribulation Force as the cowboys and Carpathia and his minions as the indians.

Even though "Left Behind" has an interesting premise, I would not suggest reading the first book, or any of the others, for that matter. The entire series is pretty much a waste of time

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Summary: Forgive me
Review: Until this book was published, I never realized just how un-Christian I was in my belief that the Prince of Peace really wanted to bring peace to the world. But now I've seen the error of my ways.
Hopefull they'll make a movie of the book complete with mega-violence chest-bursting death and destruction so we believers can present a good witness to the world. Soldier on Christians!
Is it too much to ask for a killer soundtrack, too?

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Summary: It will change your life forever!!
Review: Who in God's name gave Jerkins and who ever the **** to write a miserable book about 144,000 people disappearing. Thats the best you can do with the whole 144,000 sealed scene in Revelation? What if that chapter in the Bible has a totally different meaning? Tim Lahaye and Jerkins or who ever made this series are false prophets themselves! What bull! Nicolae Carpathia? What the hell kinda name is that for a villian? What about plain old Nicholas? And why is the Antichrist always protrayed in movies and books like the Omen and this book to be a young man! Why can't the antichrist be an old evil occult man like the EMperor in Star Wars! That would be awesome if our life was like star wars! But anyways: i think the whole thing is stupid and the whole story is crap. Garabage! First of all i don't think God would make these people disappear leaving their clothes behind. THATS WHAT THE STORY REALLY MEANS! WAHT IS BEING LEFT BEHIND IS NOT PEOPLE ITS THEIR CLOTHES! Left Behind is all about leaving your clothes behind! Hahahahahha! Tim and Jerkins or who ever they are probably saying they are right and what they say goes goes their narchistic pigs. Does anyone know that the world "Antichrist" is no where used in Revelation? Jesus said that there are already antichrist here and soon he shall cometh. I think thats what he said. The false prophet/antichrist is the same thing! The Beast of the Sea is a government! Not one man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Maybe the flase prophet is but not the Beast!!!!!!!!!! And Nicolae doesn't even seem to be threatening. Hes a stupid guy you can go up to and blow his brains out. Whats the sense of Christ coming to kill him when hes just some ordinary man under influence of the devil. It would be much better if the man was really like devil's son or devil incarnate. Maybe that would make more sense! BORing Book full or NOnsense of God's Plan which to me sounds too perdictable! Watch something so unpredictable happen in the end of times on earth and i will laugh in Jerkins and Tim's faces!