The Last Day

Rating:
Summary: A mystery thriller with bite.
Review: As mystery thrillers go, most don't really get you personally caught up in a story the way this one does. This book deals with a number of controversial issues that you can't help but identify with on some level. The seamless way the story blends fiction with reality is impressive, but be warned: it has sharp barbs for some religious organizations and will shock and infuriate sensitive readers--particularly those who don't believe such topics are appropriate for novels or satire. If, however, you can accept the premise that unswerving religious ferver can sometimes be problematical and dangerous, you will find this a highly credible, frightening and fascinating read. Possibly the clearest, most effective religious critique to come along in more than a decade.

Rating:
Summary: Lift Up Thine Eyes
Review: The Parables of Jeza are worth the price of this soul-saving volume alone. Our Last Day study group meet twice weekly to study what we call Jeza's Book and to absorb and study its revelations. The New Truth of Jeza has helped us metamorphize and shed religions such as Catholicism like old lizard skins. Now we are as winos with new suits. We, with freshly laundered souls, encourage others to follow the path of Jeza. Let the Little Jeza in all arise! Read the Parables, read them often, in the most miraculous book anyone will ever read.

Rating:
Summary: Blindingly Brilliant!
Review: Written with a pen of lightening with firey passion, words of thundering truth blasting from each smoldering page! Kleirer creates as only a genius with a capitol G can! Jeza the Female Messiah cleans house in Rome and catches the sacramental slaves with their intelects down! Queen of the Millenium, Jeza rules a New Church and busts the frauds in St. Peters! What a Classic! Parochial school is avenged! This book will peel your eyes open like onions and force you to face the truth about the mass and sunday collection baskets! This tops the list of Forbidden Books for good reason - too many have read it and never returned to the old fold! So hot that it will make you run free too!

Rating:
Summary: Kleier trumps the Left Behind series.
Review: Superb fiction-gives us a radically new view of millenial possibilities. Stands on it's own as a rousing political thriller to boot. Strongly recommend Jerry Furland's Transfer-the end of the beginning" as well.

Rating:
Summary: The Book For Our Time
Review: Over powering literature and deep insights into humanity purvade. This is unlike any other book in my experience. Impacts like a thousand hammer blows. Only Jerry Furland comes close to this kind of power. It may be shows Catholics for what religion is for first time. A book not to be missed if the real truth is craved!

Rating:
Summary: Well written, fast-paced story
Review: This is one of several books I've been holding onto for a while, wanting to read, not finding the time. I almost lent it to a friend, but started skimming through it first and immediately got drawn in. I simply could not put it down. It is impossible to figure out unless you read it from the beginning, jumping ahead only confuses things. It is a complex story with many threads, all of which create an anticipation that something extraordinary is going to happen, and it certainly does. The story encapsulates the tensions of the Last Days in a way that is unexpected and frighteningly believable. The detail and research that went into this is amazing. This is a book to incite passion and empathy. It is a window on how man has abused religion to his own, selfish purposes, filled with provocative ideas that invite debate. A first rate thriller.

Rating:
Summary: An intriguing hypothetical question
Review: This novel poses an interesting scenario: how would the religions of the world (and the world itself) deal with the arrival of a messiah (in this case, a female messiah) who tells them things they don't want to hear? Things that seem to contradict deeply entrenched tenets of their faiths? This scenario is made more complicated by the "sometimes yes/sometimes no" possibility that this messiah is genuine! Needless to say, such a situation would lead to incredible soul searching and tumult--which is exactly what happens in this fascinating look at the Second Coming. For this book to work, I don't believe you really have to subscribe to the messiah's teachings (and a lot of people won't). The interesting thing here is the conflict involved in such a situation--the enormous stresses this would place on set-in-their-ways religions and the world at large. Imagine for example if tomorrow, God Himself instructed the world to give up, say, all sweets and TV, cold turkey? Could we/would we do it? And what about the candy/sugar/soft drink and TV/cable industries, etc? Wouldn't they fight the new commandment with every bit of propaganda and weaponry they could muster? A similar confrontation is what takes place in this novel--only, it's organized religion in the cross hairs. It's not only an intriguing concept--in the masterful, frenetic way this story unfolds, it is eeriely plausable. This novel is believable and intense. It kept me on the edge of my seat constantly until I could finish it, and I still find myself thinking about it. Truly one of the more worthwhile novels I've read in some time.

Rating:
Summary: A riveting book, at times.
Review: This is fascinating reading. A huge "what if" scenario that still has time to come true. My only negative is the continuing attacks on organized religion and especially the Catholic Church throughout the book. Other than that the story is almost credible and quite realistic. Worthwhile reading. Would make one heck of a movie.

Rating:
Summary: Average Thriller
Review: Not exactly the book of great ideas that some claim, but a fair thriller. The writing isn't very refined and the characters are poorly presented. Too often, the author's agenda and bias slows things to a crawl. The five star reviews here seem to love the message, however, and seem to find something in the book which was missing from my copy. I wouldn't choose to follow the Jeza character, but she certainly has her fans among the majority of the 700 reviewers on this page. I find New Age gurus a bit boring myself. 5 Stars for Jeza, I suppose, and pass the collection plate. I seriously doubt Mother Teresa read this thriller, much less contemplated it nightly. That's going too far, even with all the other claims made by devotees of the Last Day cult.

Rating:
Summary: Somebody forgot to take their Prozak
Review: What is with the weirdo writing in here over and over again with the same sarcastic comments? If you don't like the book, fine, state your points and move on. Quit assaulting readers with repetitious drivel. It's boring and you just weaken the already weak argument you're trying to make. If you're against this book, then I'm definitely for it. Get a life already.