The Last Day

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Summary: Pompous Overkill
Review: A pompous, slow-moving, supernatural melodrama with a little comic relief from the new age messiah, Jeza. Incredibly verbose and pointless, pathetically written, and cornball. What little action in it grinds to a halt when Jeza gives one of her frequent stump speeches for the Equal Rights Amendment. Seems to glory in giving Catholics a gratuitous bloody nose as much as it loves to punish a reader with endless, convoluted prose. Honestly, only if you're desperate.

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Summary: The truth is out!
Review: Anyone who, like me, is puzzling about the rash of odd, negative reviews this excellent novel has received need scratch their head no longer. Just click on the angst-filled "reviews" of 'David,' or 'Sellers69' or the 'reader from Berkley' below. You'll find they are all from the SAME PERSON. Amazingly, the same Christian militant has been writing in railing against this novel under assumed names virtually every day of his obsessive-compulsive life, filled with the self-righteous mission to save us all from this evil novel! The epitome of the stereotypical religious fanatic! Anything that doesn't subscribe to the fanatic's narrow-minded interpritations of scripture is heresy and subjected to sanctimonious wrath. For all the open-minded, sane people out there, The Last Day is one of the most provocative and well-written novels to challenge conventional religious thinking in years. For the religious nut who is so fixated on this novel, get a life!

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Summary: Has this book ever struck a nerve!
Review: This book has brought the Religious Right right out of the wood work! I love it! These reviews are hillarious! The more people who write in to support this novel (600+ is pretty strong support) the more strained and raving the fanatical critics get. You have to ask yourself one question, which has been asked numerous times before, here, but never answered by the zealots who write in to crusade against this great novel: Where's the beef? They call (unjustly) this novel bad writing and nonsense, but when challenged to back up their ravings with quotes from the novel, they turn tail and run! What fun. All blow and no go! Sure they hate this novel--it exposes them for the self-rightious defenders of the faith they are. A bunch of hollow windbags trying to control what us "non-believers" read. Their reviews read like broken records.

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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: This novel is totally unique, thrilling and fascinating. Chilling one moment, hillarious the next, but ALWAYS thought-provoking. Without question, one of the very best novels I've ever read. I give this the highest recommendation.

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Summary: Simply outstanding
Review: One of the most intriguing and exciting novels I've ever read. Stunningly clever, surprising and thought provoking. A must read!

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Summary: A waste of a tree....
Review: Jeze, what a truly awful book. Bad writing, horrid dialogue, amazingly predictable "suspense", simplistic characterizations, insulting religious/ethnic generalizations and a plot that was so insanely contrived it boardered on farce. This book is pure bird cage lining. Truly one of the worst books I have had the displeasure of reading in years.

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Summary: Fascinating thriller
Review: If you're looking for something to get your heart pumping this holiday season, here's the book for you. I read this over the weekend and did little else. Couldn't put it down. I can't remember when I've read anything that's electrified me so. Fast moving and chock full of intriguing thoughts and provocative situations. With some books, you're lucky if it builds to a strong, final resolution. With this book, there are literally dozens of nerve-wracking moments, and the climax (don't worry, I won't reveal it) is a real stunner. The creativity of the story and the very unsual, effective way it's written is amazing in itself. I strongly recommend this. Totally unlike anything I've ever read before.

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Summary: Long & Boring!
Review: This may be some hot manifesto to people who like sermons but it sucks as a book. The way this guy writes reminds me of a newspaper or leaflit. I got the message but how about more story? This thing drags on forever! And so on. There's enough to make everybody mad - Jews, Catholics, Moslems - but nothing to make readers want to finish it. You don't have to be a bible thumping snake handler to say this book bites.

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: A very odd thriller that doesn't really hit the mark. The author's Clive Cussler-like style lacks the magic of that popular writer and is uniquely nasty and mean. It was impossible to believe in the characters, particularly the women, or the way the story developed. Nothing seemed to ring true and the reader isn't drawn-in to the story. An author familiar with or who had researched Israel would capture much more the dynamism of the people. It definitely should have been shorter as the conclusion's disappointment is even greater due to such a lengthy build-up. Just too much of an investment of time for what it is: an unpleasant, unsatisfying, hyprid thriller.

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Summary: A novel of the times steeped in biblical history
Review: I chose this novel for a research paper I wrote on the turn of the millennium. It got to be a little more involved a project than I anticipated. Once I got into the book, I found myself trying to research the many biblical references and parallels in the story, and the closer I looked, the more of them I saw. The biblical overlay of this novel is mind-boggling, once you begin to examine it. Almost every page contains some sort of overt or hidden reference that adds dimensions to the story beyond the obvious. (The significance of the Israeli Negev Reseach Institute's initials, for example). I was impressed to find that this novel has been published world-wide, translated into fourteen foreign languages, and currently has over 1,000,000 copies in print. If you haven't read it yet, it is a very fast-paced read that will keep you on the edge of your seat entertaining you as it enlightens you.