The Last Day

Rating:
Summary: Jeza Rules!
Review: Nasty little thriller wherein new female Jesus(Jeza!) escapes from Israeli incubator and raises holy havoc with organized religion. When Jeza isn't chewing out the pope she's leading women's rights rallies. Fortunately, a stalwart CNN newsman is along to cover and promote her act. Jeza is silly when she isn't plain vile and her enigmatic dogma is kind of scientology lite. I can't imagine the author is serious, but it's a flop as satire. Kind of left me with a bad taste. I prefer Daniel Easterman to this and I recommend any of his religious thrillers over this.

Rating:
Summary: Trash, but not bad
Review: I usually don't enjoy trash, but this isn't bad. Bad dialogue, a ridiculous messiah, and idiotic biblical references aside, the idea of Christ returning as a feminist and taking on the Vatican certainly held my attention. Overlong, but amusing.

Rating:
Summary: Good - Not Great
Review: I liked it, but as thrillers go it got a little too goofy for my taste. If you can overlook some pretty mean spirited attacks on Catholicism, it's otherwise a fairly good read. Nothing special though that I recall.

Rating:
Summary: This is one of the best books I've read.
Review: Those who don't like this book have the right to their opinion. I just wonder if it's really "their" opinion. I think it's a conditioned response supplanted over the years by organized religion's preaching of guilt and fear. This novel is a literary juggernaut. It's edge-of-your-seat cinematic content floats above the quagmire of linguistic stumbling into which so many first-time authors have a habit of sinking. The story line was convincingly played out and kept me hungry for what might happen next. All of this ridiculous squbbling over the subject matter has me recalling another novel which dealt with similar issues. Another novel that also caused religious groups to punish the author with the awful stench of their prejudice. You may have read it, Dante's Inferno. Perhaps $7.50 is less of a sin. Hopefully readers can afford to resolve their conflict between religious conscience and literary quality inside the cover of a paperback best-seller!

Rating:
Summary: Provocative
Review: Now here's a book I could sink my teeth into. This author had me going. Everytime I thought I had things figured out, I was thrown a curve. Great way to spend a snowy weekend. If you like your cerebellum stimulated, this one will do it.

Rating:
Summary: The thinking Christian's beach read
Review: Whether you practice a formal religion or not, you'll find yourself questioning your own belief system in new and different ways. Without giving away crucial story elements, the plot revolves around a number of characters who must decide, amidst the chaos of millenium frenzy, whether or not they believe the protaganist, a young woman calling herself "Jeza" embodies the Messiah of biblical prophecy. As a Christian, I found myself drawing parallels to the life of Jesus if He were to appear among us today. I came to the startling observation that the faith I so admired (and took for granted)in His apostles and followers would be almost overwhelmingly difficult for me to; a)recognize, b)submit to, and c)fight for, if the events were as portrayed in this book. This is an excellent book for a discussion group, regardless of your faith or lack thereof. It's also a good, fast-paced, exciting read! You'll care about the characters, and imagine yourself among them.

Rating:
Summary: Sense of Humor!
Review: When read with an open mind and a sense of humor, it's an entertaining read. The theology isn't meant to be taken seriously, as well as the novel itself. A good fantasy that could have been better. Very funny at times.

Rating:
Summary: Great fun
Review: This book is a trip. Never know where it's going to take you next. Can't second guess it. Love the characters, the premise, and the spectacular surprises along the way. Well done.

Rating:
Summary: Cute Idea for Thriller
Review: A pretty good thriller when it isn't trying too hard to be something more. A little too nasty and vicious towards people of faith and farout biblically (one might suspect References to the Politically Correct Bible Stories). A lot of potential lost with a messiah from a test tube who is the airhead version of a feminist. Cute at times but begins to grate.

Rating:
Summary: Vengeance Is Mine Sayeth Klier!
Review: The heck with the thought police. Klier is a genius. Last Day clobbers the Church and shows the Vatican's just in the religion biz just for the cash. The new messiah tramples the Old beliefs and frees women for the Right to Choose and Gays to be themselves. Jeza, the female Jesus, closes the churches and exposes the pope for the old fashioned, out of touch, old man he is. Masterfully written, biblically slamming, Church crushing enlightenment. This is the most spiritually deep and freeing book I've read since Jonnathon Livingstone Seagull. Only this author is righteously angry and brooks Church hypocrisy no longer! I loved it, every icon smashing word. The thought police and sanctimonious better beware: Jeza is coming and she's looking to set you on a New Way to salvation! Better start clicking those rosary beads.