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Summary: Captivating story fails with poor writing
Review: The story, based on the book of Revelation, is a good one. The story was why I bought, and read, the book. But, I'm only a high school student, but I can recognize what is good writing and what is not. This is certainly the latter. Buck Williams, the magazine journalist for the equivalent of "Time," was developed terribly. He said and did so many things out of character. Also, there are no details in this book at all! I could not create one picture in my mind of how the setting looked. Also, the ending stinks. The author took the absolute easiest way out--it was cheesy.
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Summary: Riveting
Review: This book was very hard to put down. The story line is possible in the future and should awaken the average person to it's potential occurrence. It follows the text of the bible in the major events that occur.
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Summary: Left Behind
Review: I am a huge Tom Clancy fan. I found this book to read much like the Clancy books. Several small stories going on at one time. Can't wait to get to the next book.
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Summary: Overly simplistic revelation
Review: Intriguing premise (assuming the Book of Revelation is to be taken literally). Good start. Obviously supposed to have a sequel, so I didn't like the end.Written for high- or middle-school reading levels. This is not "high literature" that requires a college education or repeated reading to understand. It is an interesting look at a literal interpretation of parts of the Book of Revelations (a prophesy of the end of the world as we know it as a precursor to the second coming of the Messiah). The characters are not well-developed but do hint at being interesting (again, this is the first installment of a series, it might get better in the next volume). The plot is fairly obvious. This is light-reading. Content acceptable for adolescent or older. I can't say I completely agree with the content on a religious level. How the authors paint armageddon is pretty sterotypic to the more evagelical Protestant groups who subscribe to a literal reading of the Bible. I do applaud the obvious effort to get people to think about and consider their beliefs, and the potential long-term consequences of both belief and action.
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Summary: An Entertaining Read!
Review: The Rapture, as preached by Born-Again Christians, is when Jesus Christ will gather his true-believers up to heaven,leaving the rest of the world to their own devices. This book, is about what happened when the Rapture occurred. Rayford Steele, a pilot for Pan-Con Airways, is at the half-way point of his Chicago to London flight when his head flight attendant, Hattie Durham tells him that some of the passengers are missing, including all of the children. The mystery and confusion deepens when it is discovered that all over the world, people have disappeared leaving only their clothing and jewelry behind. Rayford, his daughter Chloe, a pastor and a newsmagazine writer all find one another and fine that they will have to lead the fight against the antiChrist in the coming Armegeddon. I devoured this book. I read it in two days and enjoyed it immensely. I am rather daunted by the fact that there are, I think, 13 sequels to this novel. I hope that they are all this good. This book really makes you think, at the same time it read like a good mystery/horror novel.
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Summary: A Pagan Review
Review: ....I read this book in two days. It is the first book I have read in entirety since last year. It really moved me, blew me away. I am ready for the rest of the series. Yes, I am Pagan. I did not find the book overly "preachy" as some have said. I enjoyed the characters, especially Chloe. She is torn as I would be, if the decision were thrust into my lap overnight. I have read the bible and know about Revelations, but this book put more meat into it for me.
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Summary: Average Plot, not enough though
Review: The book begins with the rapture(the end of the world), and a pilot sad about his wife dying. It does not get better. The terrible writing is hidden through engaging characters, with horrid description. A 3rd grader could read it. It is annonyingly simplistic, but interesting. Read at your own risk.
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Summary: Same Old Catholic Bashing
Review: I had the misfortune of reading this whole series because I received it as a gift and couldn't easily exchange it. The characters are poorly developed, the choices they make are obvious and simple. The plot is so transparent that you can see through it. The book is amateurishly written and embarrasingly trite. The treatise of Buck and Chloe's "cookie sharing" in the second book was so saccharine I almost gave up reading it at that point. My biggest concern, even outweighing its amateurish presentation, is the continuous (and NOT subtle) attacks on the Catholic Church (particularly in "Tribulation Farce", er, "Force"). It's time for Christians to get past that and focus on what we agree on, not how we're different. This stuff is a retread of the same Protestant versus Catholic diatribe and slanderous use of biblical misinterpretation that has kept the Church separate since the "reformation." The authors need to get off that holier than thou pulpit.
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Summary: Not a novel, a sermon
Review: Except for missionaries hoping to convert others, there is little to recommend this series of bang-you-over-the-head-with-Fundamentalism novels. Nothing wrong with sermonizing, if that's what you're looking for. But if you're hoping for a little more engaging and spiritually challenging read, this isn't it. Probably the best End Times novel ever written is Kleier's epic, THE LAST DAY (Warner Books). It not only offers a realistic, provocative (and frightening) look at how the religious world might react to Judgment Day, but it does so with extraordinary intelligence, suspense and grip-you-by-the-soul thrills. I will finish this series only because I want to see if the authors have it in them to find some unusually noteworthy way to end all this. I can't imagine an ending to rival the one in LAST DAY. Jenkins and LeHaye should have read LAST DAY before attempting this topic, maybe it would have motivated them to raise the quality of their writing. Let's hope the final installment of LEFT BEHIND isn't as predictable as the rest of the series has been.
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Summary: The "Left Behind" book and movie is worth buying!
Review: I have now enjoyed both the book and the video. A great start to a great story. It is refreshing to see a book such as this take off in sales like it has. However it threatens some and they might say very damaging things about this story of God. It is clear that the review by Williamandrews2 sets a good example of this. Willaimandrews2 states that this book has set the progress in treating people with psychological disorders back by 50 yrs...where does he come up with such a stat? Williamandrews2 states that he is a therapist (MSW? Psy.D? PhD?) and that this book exemplifies a religious belief system that is the largest single (probably meant single largest)obstacle to any meaningful recovery for these people. Sharp words with no substance. I suggest that Williamandrews2 return to school if he believes that this is truly the greatest obstacle to their recovery. I am a psychologist (Ph.D.) deeply troubled by his comments. With great thought and review I highly recommend this book! Remember this is part one of a large series...hard to judge the series by a single book.
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