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Summary: A left behind fanatic
Review: I thought this book was one of the best in the series. I cried during some parts of the book. The characters in the series grow on you, almost to the point where it feels like you know them. I look forward to the 12th book, and am sad that it's the final one in the series.
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Summary: I completely agree AND disagree!
Review: I completely disagree with those who complain that the Left Behind series is too long. (I for one will be really bummed when Left Behind is over). I completely agree with those who have recommended BeauSeigneur's In His Image, Birth of an Age, and Acts of God as a equally excellent end times series, as well as Britt Gillette's Conquest of Paradise. If you've read the previous books in the Left Behind Series, then you won't be disappointed by what Armageddon has to offer.
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Summary: It's NOT the original manuscript but....
Review: "I didn't see the movie"... but I did read the original manuscript and the Left Behind series is much the same as watching an old movie "re-make" of the scriptural account of the Rapture, Tribulation, and the Second Coming as foretold in the book of Revelation, and other books of the Bible. It necessarily calls for interpretative license with both characters and plot. Prophets of old looked across a mountain range of time trying to explain what they saw. The authors' interpretation of these accounts into present day images and word pictures has been a pleasant respite. I consider it "light" reading. However, as an avid reader (5-10 books per month for entertainment purposes plus professional journals and studies) I would have to concede that this series has dragged a bit in spots, and this book in particular...but since I know how it all ends I don't find myself too impatient with it.(tend to read quickly thru or past it) The characters seem a little less developed in sections but, considering the circumstances they're in, projecting "how" they should respond and what part of their personalities could be deemed "artificial" is not something that would deter me from buying the next book in the series when it comes out. For me, these characters are the "remnants" struggling with a new faith....and REALLY weird circumstances in unchartered territory...talk about a learning curve! It did not surprise me that they migrated back to previous or weak coping patterns and personality traits. I just imagine what I would cling to in the same circumstances. Guess I have to take a hard look at why I'm reading it...I like the story line, the characters, and the way my mind engages and visualizes what is, in my estimation, a well delivered "story" derived from what I consider factual research.
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Summary: Alternatives
Review: The authors have 'dragged' out the last couple of books and it's very discouraging. They should stick to their earlier trend. However, in spite of this, I highly anticipated this new book and will have the final one in my hands the day it hits the bookstores. Also, for anybody interested, 'The Christ Clone Trilogy' series and 'Conquest of Paradise' are fantastic books and readers of the Left Behind series will love them. With the Left Behind Series winding down, it's nice to have some more end-times books to read. I can't recommend them enough. Everybody I have lent them to loved them. Talk about the edge of your seat!!!!!!
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Summary: It Made Me All Gushy Inside
Review: Words cannot explain how exciting this book made me. I haven't felt this way since I left my Buhdist monastery and began barking in the aisles as a "born-again" Christian. I can't believe all these picky people who complain that it isn't good literature. Of course it isn't, it's like my favorite romance novels. Its written well enough to give me that hot feeling and that is what makes it good literature to me.
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Summary: Looking forward to an end.
Review: I started reading the Left Behind series when Assassins (the 5th - or so - book) came out. The book jacket of that book sounded interesting so I went back to the beginning and read them all. I'm not a particularly religious person and some of the religious messages in the books I find seriously offensive. However, I have always been quite taken with the adventure story and with the characters of Buck, Chloe, Rayford, etc. As each successive book contains less and less storyline and more religion, I have become less and less interested. I look forward to being able to find out what happens to them in the next and (as I understand it) the last book.
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Summary: My least favorite so far of the series
Review: (Warning: some spoilers here. I will flag them.) Despite my impatience with the ongoing weeping and praying in each of the 10 previous books, I have found myself drawn in by the literal interpretation of the Rapture and the Tribulations. It's really been fascinating. Still, I agree with another reviewer that these books could have been condensed considerably; sometimes the conversation, and especially the preaching, is interminable. The characters have also lost considerable draw: Chloe is annoyingly argumentative and constantly putting the community in danger; Buck is less and less the dashing figure he was in the second book; Rayford waffles much too much to be taken seriously as a leadership figure. I'm still glad Hattie is gone. Everyone just seems to be getting less intelligent as the series moves along. Towards the end, everyone is worried about everyone else dying, while knowing that they have just days to be back together again. When Buck and others tried to dissuade Tsion from going to Jerusalem, I just wanted to smack them, frankly. Defending your beliefs, your faith, and your people should be shown as heroic, not as a study in fluttery agitation. These people are at war, for heaven's sake, and they know it. Yet they seem entirely unprepared, mentally, seven long years into the struggle.The more charismatic, intriguing characters, such as Mac and now Albie, died much too early. Why did Albie, such a savvy guy, not see his death coming? He knew the character; he should have seen it coming right when the tattoo was being applied--I did. And why, oh why, if Petra was invulnerable in the past, did bombs drop inside the enclave and end up whacking Rayford? Also, there hasn't been much contemplation on the part of the characters as to how they will deal with their former spouses when they all get back together on Earth. They know, already, that life is eternal and they'll be reunited. Isn't it adultery to have another relationship before then? I think the authors are trying too hard to show that Christians are human, with human sentiments and weaknesses. They are preaching to the converted (the majority of people who buy these books). I guess these books are more meant to be a rapid-fire adventure series, and in that, they often succeed. They are also meant to get the message of born-again Christians across to non-believers and to reaffirm it for believers, and in that, they also succeed. I wonder how it will all end? Oh yes, Jesus comes back and the forces of evil are defeated. I will read the last book, of course. Maybe some of my questions will be answered there.
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Summary: Fair Book
Review: Ok, I am a big fan of this series, but yet there was barelly any fighting or battle. Yes, the cliffhanger is awesome, but the authors are really strecthing it some. I give it 4 stars, because there was barelly any fighting or any wars. Wait until 12 comes out.
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Summary: What a waste....
Review: This series has been one of the biggest disappointments I have had for awhile. Fairly poorly written in general, it just went down hill so far with popularity. These guys stretched it out to make money...more and more money (I hope they have used it to do the Lord's will). I beleive this series was pushed heavily as an evangelism tool and became popular because it was more fun to read than the other books trying to "save" people.
If Christians or others would like to read quality books on fictional charachters and ideas with biblically inclined story lines, check out the Christ Clone series. These three books are so far beyond the Left Behind garbage. Left Behind may have gotten a 3 or 4 star rating it it were cut down to 3 books or so. How much can a story be tacked onto to extend for more $$?
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Summary: Unexpected
Review: I can not believe the ending. I was silently blown away. How amazing it is to throw something so unexpected into the mix. I have enjoyed the Left Behind series. If you read the series from the beginning, you see how much they've learned and and grew in their faith. Book 11 is one of the best book out of the series, and I do recommended doing some catch up reading before taking on this one. Great job to the writers. I enjoyed reading them all so far.
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