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Summary: This Book was great
Review: This series just keeps getting better, it amazing how they show people the events in revalation. they tell the story in away that makes sense for today. it also helps to point out that Christian authors can be as succesful as non-christian authors. the important thing to remember is that the books are fiction, they are the way the authors chose to portrait events from the bible. so you can't be critical of every action in the books. if u want to read the writting its about read the book of revalations in the Bible.
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Summary: Finally, hints of the Christian life
Review: For a Christian series of books, "Left Behind" seems to have left Christian principles in the dust. In the first 10 volumes, the heroes of the story spent a great deal of time congratulating themselves for being Christian. That's when they weren't beating or shooting the crud out of their enemies. And post-mayhem, our boys (and their girls) never seemed capable of scraping up enough compassion to worry about the teeming hordes of the unsaved, except of course when they were of their own family. But though the cosmos is literally falling apart around them, our gang is a horny as billy goats; there must be a dozen chaste pairings in the series - even some daring interracial stuff, though never with the white folks. Woo hoo!Finally, in book 11 of the series, and 6+ years into the story, major character Rayford Steele seems to have taken notice of the people who will be snarfing red-hot twinkies at the end. Oh well, better late than never. While it's too late for these poor, tortured souls, it is nice that they can elicit a bit of brow furrowing from the saved. Again in 'Armageddon,' our Joes and Marys are packing as much heat as they can carry, in the form of ray guns that burn their enemies and some sort of big gun that blows craters into its targets. There's a weird paramilitary swagger in this book, with good guys carrying Uzis as casually as pocket Bibles. These are purely defensive,of course, and they try so hard to miss, but (shuckins!) if collateral damage doesn't just seem to happen! Where this colossal armory comes from is anyone's guess, but there you have it, all the way to the bloody cliffhanger that takes us (please, please please!) to the end of the series in the next volume. And there will be much rejoicing... The authors must have spent too much time in their youth at church camp, and boy do they make up for it here! Fist-sized gunshot wounds, blood spurting like fountains, guillotines crusted with gore, this book's got it all. It holy, gross, high-caliber pandemonium! **SPOILER ALERT!!!***
By the way, offing a beloved character in an ATV accident (of all things) at the brink of Armageddon has got to be about the lamest way to move a character offstage. Gastritis from leftover manna would have been a bit more creative. Yet, I will read book 12, if only to get some closure on the story line!
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Summary: One of the Best Left-Behind Books
Review: I am with those who agree that some of the Left-Behind books seemed to lag in the action--that is expected of a 12-book series on the end-times. However, Jenkins and Lahaye have delivered an absolutely thrilling spiritual masterpiece with Armageddon. For those who take the Bible literally and look forward to the events of Revelation, this book brings chills to the spine. Christian readers will especially enjoy the courage of Chloe as she faces execution. It really puts all of our faith in perspective. Often, we can get lost in the everday shuffle of things and lose sight of what it is we live and perhaps, die for. Another reason Armageddon is one of the most thrilling in the Left-Behind series is because it show the agony of a husband losing his wife, a child losing his mother, and a father losing his daughter. It shows the soft, human side of believers who are not too spiritual to mourn and yet it shows the hope of seeing our loved ones again on the other side. I was also intrigued by the incident with Albie. I thought it showed a oft-forgotten element of the post-rapture world: people who defy the antichrist and yet reject the real Christ. Armageddon shows that these people are the real mission field of the Rapture saints. Jenkins subtle plot twists and LaHaye's theology provide a powerful double-play combination, making this book one of the most potent of the Left-Behind series. It is my prayer that these books reach many for the Kingdom of Christ.
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Summary: Worst book ever (in this series)
Review: Lamest plot line so far. Don't read further if you don't want to know what happens at the beginning of the book. How can the authors possibly have Chloe go outside without a phone or radio? The set up was incredibly lame. What are editors for? Couldn't they have come up with a better way to have another exciting situation? The first two books were fantastic; the rest have just milked it. The crass commercialization of the series has served to offset much of the good message.
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Summary: Sooooooooo Sloooooooooow
Review: Come on guys, just END IT ALL. I was enthralled with the early books in the series . . . now; it's like sitting around and watching the grass grow. I never realized that a "battle" could be so boring. The story line is nothing less than trite. The characters are completely shallow and the constant bouncing around, from one scene to another, gives the book a feeling of a cheaply produced rap video - yeeech - if the story line flickered any faster, the authors could evoke an epidemic of epileptic seizures in those that don't even suffer from that horrible illness! Rayford on an ATV? Give us a break! At least he could have been on a moped! While the series initially captured a lot of dedicated readers who have been willing to suffer through the last several books just to finish what we started, there is no way that this series will continue to attract readers in the future - why would anyone want to spend the time and money in such a tortuously long series of books that reads like a comic book. Should a second edition of this series ever come out (let's hope not), one suggestion would be to change the epilogue in each book to - "Same bat time, same bat channel," same bat characters, same bat plot. . . etc., etc., etc.
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Summary: Not better with age
Review: It appears the series is drying up. The chapters and verse do not flow very well. The authors seem to skip between to many characters and the story line is not very intriging. The series is evolving, but the characters are stale and sometimes quite ridiculous. Hope it ends soon or I may not continue purchasing the series.
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Summary: #11 is poignant, crisp & brings reader to edge of Armaggedon
Review: Armaggedon pulled this series out of a rut. Some of the complaints that the series has gone too long, and that the authors are just dragging this out to make money, by coming up with continuing little adventures--well they are the very complaints I was feeling during #9 & #10. However, this edition has won back my enthusiasm. Chloe's Tribulation journey gains depth and comes across with such reality and clarity, that yes, I imagined myself in the same setting. Frustration, anticipation, continuing tragedy, and yet swelling hope make this one of the best in the series. One aspect of the writing that came out strongly is that even at the edge of the ultimate of all wars, family, young love, and even the struggle of raising a pre-school aged child in the midst of tremendous upheaval are so believably presented. This is drama itself coupled with how daycare gets managed in the midst of MIAs, POWs, wars and rumors of war. Bottom-line: Armaggedon moves quickly, realistically, and with strong tension. The groundwork has been laid for a most powerful ending!
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Summary: So Bad, It's Almost Funny
Review: I have read all 11 books so far, but, I'm proud to say, have not spent a penny on any of them. All borrowed from friends or the library. It started out well enough, but as the series began to make money for the authors, the books began to get thinner and thinner and thinner. Now we have book 11. This book is so full of misogynist (that's anti-woman) propaganda that it's a JOKE! Chloe, the only female original member of the Trib Force, is "supposed" to be at home with her baby. Instead, she stupidly leaves the house to go be part of the action. Bad, bad girl -- leaving the home! What happens then? She almost gets EVERYONE killed! See what happens when the women don't stay in their place?? Then she gets captured and is so weak that after not eating for about 24 hours --- ONE FREAKING DAY -- she takes food from the Carpathianites, despite knowing it was tainted -- because the lil' woman just can't be expected to be strong enough not to eat for a whole long day, can she???/ Jenkins and LaHaye are sad, sad, sad, pitiful excuses for writers, Christians, and men. I pity their wives and daughters -- what sexist [material] they must have to put up with!!
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Summary: Captivating
Review: Armageddon, eleventh book in the LEFT BEHIND SERIES has the Tribulation Force scattered through out the world, many hiding in safe houses that are no longer safe. As the antichrist escalates his efforts to ferret out TRUE BELIEVERES, he is hampered by the total darkness that has descended on his staff and closest followers. As with each book in the series the action in ARMAGADDON is riveting. It is the last year of the GREAT TRIBULATION and God's army of believers knows that the great battle between GOD and the antichrist is at hand. LeHaye and Jenkins have once again penned a captivating narrative of a best seller, sure to have you eager for book twelve.
Beverly J Scott author of "Righteous Revenge" and "Ruth Fever."...
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Summary: What I think people do not realize
Review: Is that the basic premise of these books is not Biblical according to II Thes. I had to go to my Pastor after reading the first one, and he re-assured me I was right. The Bible tells us that if we have had a chance to become saved before the rapture and did not take that opportunity, there will not be another (except for the number of Jews mentioned in the Bible). So, the main guy, and his daughter would not have been saved, neither would the pastor of their church or so many others. I have stayed far away from this series so as not to confuse myself with what the books teach vs. what the Word of God actually says!
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