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Summary: Just keep reading!
Review: The first book was a little slow but if you left the first book and never read beyond that- you don't know what you are missing! The authors have done an incredable job with this series and I am looking forward to the next book release next year. You have to be able to read between the lines and figure out what the true message is! Those that gave the book or series a bad review are not open minded in my opinion. The twists and turns that the charaters are pushed through!!! Keep on reading! If you feel this book is all about the authors making you feel guity on not being a christian- then don't read it!
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Summary: Left Behind
Review: I have read the whole Left Behind Series for adults and the kids series also. I can't lay them down once I start, and I can't wait for the next book to come out.
I have also used them as witnessing tools for some of my friends at work. They aren't Christians and I used these books to show them what is in their future if they don't accept Christ.
I only have praise for Tim Lehaye and Jerry Jenkins. Well done! Keep up the good work.
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Summary: My First End-tiems Prophecy book...
Review: This being my first end-times prohecies based novel, I cannot say much because the Left Behind series is the only one I've read, so far. I plan to read another series called "The Christ Clone Trilogy by James Beausigner(sp??). I'v eheard taht's supposed to be better than the LB series...Ahem, Back to the point. The LEft Behind series is good for the plot basis. In this first book,entitled the same name as the name of the series, a group of people are brought together by the events of The Rapture, or taking of the Christians by Jesus Christ. This leads to chaos throughout the world. Though this book does not actually cover the Tribulation, or the seven years in which the world is supposed to end, but the events before that and the event that starts it. I find that some of the characters are indeed underdeveloped. Some others are just plain dull, like Rayford Steele. I am being just and fair in this review, so I have to take both sides, the good and the bad into account. Some areas of the book can bore you until the point where you are about to tear the book to pieces, but others are exciting and perhaps, maybe thrilling. These exciting and thrilling moments are precious to continuing the books. Ha ha ha. All in all, I give this book a 4 out of 5. My reccomendations for the book: Anyone who is a devout Christian and want to read about the most interesting part, I think, of the Bible, Revelations. Anyone who picks up a copy and thinks they will read the whole series. Or anyone that is interested and will actually read it. My reccomendations for the series: Same as above. If you think you can stand the whole series and have a very high tolerance for things, go ahead and take a whack at it.
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Summary: Great, hearty fiction
Review: Is this supposed to scare people to Jesus? Or just put them into stitches from laughing so hard?? Anyone who believes this stuff needs to have their head examined. Instead of this drivel, I recommend something that will genuinely challenge you: The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine, a hero of the American Revolution.
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Summary: Left Behind
Review: Left Behind is a fiction-based novel written by Tim Lahayne and Jerry B. Jenkins. It is the first book in a series of twelve that tells the biblical story of the earth's last days. The series starts with the Rapture to the seven-year Tribulation period and the climatic final battle, Armageddon. Weather you are a believer or not, after reading this book you will certainly stop and think. I am a Christian and I found this book to be compelling and even a little scary. As I read, I also questioned the realistic side of the plot. A number of readers will certainly find this story line unbelievable. My advice to them is to read the Bible. It does coincide with Lahayne and Jenkins' novel. Starting off was slow and honestly a little boring. Around chapter three the story really picked up and pulled me into it. The authors give great detail and insight of how in the blink of an eye, we could be here one moment and gone the next. I felt as though I could step right into the story and actually be one of the characters. Rayford Steele, a commercial airline pilot and non-believer, is one of the main characters. He could very easily be some one that I know personally. Journalist, Cameron "Buck" Williams' character was a little unrealistic to me. However, characters like the Assistant Pastor Bruce Barnes are frequently in the news. He learns that teaching God's word will not save him from the rapture because he must also believe in God's word. Another important character is the Romanian leader Nicolae Carpathia, the Anti-Christ. I found him to be very believable. In our world today the Anti-Christ is all around and easily disguised. Written for adult readers of any comprehension level, the plot of this story will keep you engrossed. The story line is not violent, although there is great detail about the disappearance of thousands of people. Pandemonium surrounds people as they are carrying on their daily lives and suddenly people and children are missing. Airplanes crash after some pilots disappear, cars run into people and houses, and fires are started due to unattended stoves. Those left behind frantically search for answers. There is also a double murder. All of these events make this novel an interesting read.
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Summary: free your mind
Review: "What is the Matrix?" "You have to see it for yourself." "You have to let it all go, Neo, fear, doubt, disbelief - free your mind." The premise here is that you'll need to see it to belive it but in doing so maybe you'll be incorporated like it or not. It's much the same story with the Left Behind series.This is a rather poorly written, predictable and ultimately boring series of books.But it seems that many are being sucked in by this anti-freedom,anti-gay,pro-israel propaganda. I read these books to see what the fuss was about and in truth found the first book rather entertaining on a purely fictional basis. But in the latter volumes I quickly lost interest as the characters lose all development when they become "saved" and thereby make themselves interchangable with other "saved" members of the story. Basically I urge you to skim this novel if you must but please don't bother with the rest of this wholly predictable series (there are no upsets,nothing unexpected ever happens).
It has disturbed me deeply to see that to many of the American (who else)politicians, this is more than just a story, it is prohecy.
God save us if you exist for they know not what they do...
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Summary: left behind
Review: even thou i own and enjoyed all the left behind abridged series. there is just too much left out from the unabridged books, some of the charitors come from nowhere and some get lost from book to book. unless you've read the paper books its easy to get lost, and you feel you've missed something. i've recomended the series to several people, and had them come back to me and ask where did this person come from or what happened to that person, also what happened between this time and that.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This book captures your attention and always keeps you excited. Its better than harry potter and i never got board reading this amazing book. I can't wait to read the other books in the series.!!
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Summary: Left Behind
Review: WOW! this was an amazing book it was just great to read i could hardly put it down and i am definatly reading all of the rest of the books in the series....if u want a really good read u should read this series.... this is a book that helps give u a glimps of the end times and it is written on the views that the Bible gives and it shows some verses that back up the teaching of the end times and how all of the jugement will be comming to all that didnt get taken up in the rapture of the church. In the first book the Tribulation Force is just getting started towards the end of the book and they are opposing the Antichrist--Nicolie Carpathia--and they are goin to try to wittness to all of the un-beleivers and try to win as many people to Christ as possible.... there are many charecters in this book that fit together well and the two authers of this book (Tim Lahaye, and Jerry B. Jenkins) did an absoutly wonderful job and u can tell that they really looked at this stuff in the Bible and they beleive it. when the end times come i sure dont want to be left behind....i recommend this book and i sugest the movies too bc they are all really good and so far there is only 2 movies out of the Left Behind series and i hope they come out with more!
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Summary: Great Concept. Poor implementation.
Review: The authors' have little to no understanding of avoiding breaking the reader's suspension of disbelief. Now, I bought this to read as entertainment, based around the Rapture concept. Certainly, a clever or creative author could do so much with this ... Tragically, neither Tim or Jerry qualify and this project was simply way too much for them. Left Behind starts off well enough - millions of people disappear world-wide. Now what? A reasonable person might expect the entire first book to focus on the aftermath of the Rapture itself. Instead ... millions disappear, and what do they do? HEY, let's forget about all that! Let's go focus on (intermingled) standardizing the world on 3 currencies (with the strong implication of going toward only 1 within 5 years). And, then by page 150 or so, they are already talking about this new ultra cool and charismatic new leader from ROMANIA (of all places). Oh yeah - I buy that - my wife and baby vanished YESTERDAY. Now, my teenage daughter is trying to make her way home from CA - so let's go talk finance and politics (cause it's not like I'd spend ANY time grieving, dealing with what happened, etc). Nope! Let's go on a business trip to NY and do some investigative reporting! I live in NJ - no one did any business THE ENTIRE WEEK after 9/11. The rapture came and went, and I'm still here? Hmmmm.... better get down to Wall St., and figure out if I'm going to be on dollars, marks or yen next week. Weak! So Weak! Come on! It's a 11 book series - you could have waited until book 2 (or the very very end of book 1) to start foreshadowing things to come. Develop your characters! It's not like we didn't know that the anti-christ was going to be brought up at some point - this isn't exactly an original premise ... So, in summary, this tome isn't in any way worthy of your reading dollar (much less reading time!). It's SO tragic that a really solid author didn't have a go at this. Orson Scott Card would have done a first rate job.
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