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Summary: I Hated The Left Behind Series But I Loved This:
Review: I absolutely loved this book. It was a real page turner!!
I really hated the left behind series (boring) and I thought this was very intreaging. The books price is a little high though, but is well worth every panny.
I liked the new use of characters, combined with thier sence of reality concerning thier personal challenges. I am not going to discuss the book because It might ruin the read for you. So if you love mystery, suspense, and christian lititure please buy this. Its worth it.
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Summary: Good book... Good story...
Review: I also cannot understand the negitive reviews that this book is recieving. I agree that this book is not "Left Behind", but I am pretty certain that it was not ment to be. The idea of having an "Indiana Jones" type character whos main passion in life is to seak out real artifacts to suport the writings in the Bible is outstanding. The pace of the story is quite quick and it allowed me to sit for hours reading and not realize time flying by. The book also kept you on the edge of my seat woundering how Murphy is going to handle the next life threating situation, only gaurded by his extream faith in God. It's a great book and I am looking forward to reading the rest of this series...
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Summary: This is NOT "Left Behind"....
Review: I am a big fan of Tim LaHaye, so it kills me to have to write this review of "Babylon Rising". The plot line is implausible, the characters are, at best, two-dimensional. So much is thrown at the reader with so little effort to make the characters likeable or even realistic. At first I expected "Indiana Jones meets the Book of Revelation", but it reads like an old B-grade Hollywood serial.
My disappointment is palpable - I so looked forward to this book!
I recommend everyone to read "Apocalypse Dawn" by Mel Odom instead.
I won't be reading any sequels in this series.
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Summary: This is NOT "Left Behind"....
Review: I am a big fan of Tim LaHaye, so it kills me to have to write this review of "Babylon Rising". The plot line is implausible, the characters are, at best, two-dimensional. So much is thrown at the reader with so little effort to make the characters likeable or even realistic. At first I expected "Indiana Jones meets the Book of Revelation", but it reads like an old B-grade Hollywood serial.
My disappointment is palpable - I so looked forward to this book!
I recommend everyone to read "Apocalypse Dawn" by Mel Odom instead.
I won't be reading any sequels in this series.
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Summary: A Major Disappointment for Tim LaHaye Fans
Review: I am a longtime fan of Tim LaHaye's writing and the biggest Left-Behind geek there is. That is why I eagerly anticipated reading this book. And I couldn't have been more disappointed. In fact, I'm scratching my head wondering 1) How a major publisher allowed this to press without significant edits. 2) How Tim LaHaye can put his prestige and now worldwide name recognition on a book so terribly flawed. The idea behind Babylon Rising is brilliant, but the writing is so below grade, I can't believe it will get a single positive review. The characters are so unbelievable, the plot line is convaluted and bizzare, and the dialoge is terribly amateur. I can guarantee that if this were produced by an unknown writer and submitted to any publishing house, it would be flatly rejected. I am terribly disapointed, because I really like the idea of a series based on Daniel's prophecies. The anticipation and the hype was such that I was running out to get this book. And by the lofty standards created by Left-Behind, I could have sworn that this book would be awesome. It is clear that Tim LaHaye, without master craftsmen Jerry Jenkins, fails as a fiction writer. Its too bad.
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Summary: Agenda Driven- Poorly Written
Review: I am all for books that have a viewpoint they wish to forward. Ayn Rand wrote books supporting her pro-individual, anti-goverment philosophy. These books still hold up today and are chilling in their prophecy.
However, neither author is Ayn Rand.
These two "writers" seem so poorly equipped in their task that they don't even know how to use a thesaurus. (EXAMPLE: "It was a place where negativity had no place") It is just lazy to use the same word twice in one sentence, even if it has another meaning.
Now, the story. an intriguing idea. Nothing more. The characters are flat and two dimensional. The good guys are REALLY good and the bad guys are REALLY bad, and the cast of characters is so numerous you can hardly keep up with who is who. It is the lazy kind of bad writing. The authors just tell you things--(EXAMPLE: "Being a man of integrity")-- instead of showing his integrity. Also there is a need for the authors to REPEAT information, thinking that the reader is so stupid he couldn't remember the occurances of two chapters earlier.
I feel sorry if Evangelical Christianity and Biblical Archeaology are only represented by such amateurish drivel. My suggestion to both authors is to read some good writers-- LEARN YOUR CRAFT.
Avoid the book-- "The Red Tent" is a much better read and a more uplifting religious experience.
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Summary: Left Out, Not Left Behind
Review: I am an Evangelical Christian Believer and read all of the Left Behind series. Bablon Rising was quite a disappointment. The relic searches were too easy and too much time spent with the evil villans. This is just a teaser to read more in the series, with no idea of how many books will be coming to reach a conclusion. The editors were lax...on page 20 of the hard cover editon, it states, "Murphy kept a touch light on the accelerator...", which should read, "Murphy kept a light touch on the accelerator..."
Also, on page 231, first paragraph, the biblical reference shows II Kings 18:23, should be II Kings 18:4. Tim LaHaye is a wonderful person and author, but he did not get the help he needed from the coauthor or his publisher. Before spending $26 on the next book about Ararat, I will check the Amazon.com reviews.
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Summary: Babylon Flop
Review: I bought this book because that author stressed in his introductory message what a great book he had written...
thrilling, gripping etc. Well, it isn't. Most of the action scenarios were ridiculous.The plot was predictable but the
situations beyond belief. Even in fiction, can anyone fly into a desert and in less than 24 hours find a biblical artifact that has been hidden and buried for millenia in an abandoned ancient sewer, under a modern day city. And later the hero is able to wiggle through an air shaft in a pyramid, that initially was barely able to admit a small remote control drone. And when he reaches the inner sanctum of the pyramid, the bad guy "Talon" is waiting inside with his trained killer falcons. Fortunately, the hero was able to kill one of the attacking falcons with his bow and arrow!
Bantam published this book but I bet they won't run the series.
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Summary: Didn't hate it, didn't love it.
Review: I can tell you that I didn't hate this book, but I didn't love it either. I did however learn a few things. I would read something in the book and think "Really?" then verify it or not verify it with outside sources. Made me think. Anyway it wasn't really plausible . . . an archeologist wouldn't do quite so much damage in quite so many irreplaceable dig sites at least I wouldn't and I'm not even an archeologist and you can't grab the barrell of an AK-47 when it's firing without burning yourself, but you can't really flip through the air and kick 4 people standing in a circle and still land on your feet like they do on TV either. It's a great idea. I just wish it had been executed a little better.
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Summary: A cross between Left Behind and Indiana Jones!
Review: I do not understand the negative comments from some of the reviewers. One said it wasn't "Left Behind"...maybe that's because IT"S A DIFFERENT STORY!
This book is about a Biblical archeologist and his quest to prove the Bible is real by finding artifacts mentioned in the Bible. It also shows how some people will do anything to prove the Bible is not real.
Babylon Rising is a cross between Left Behind and Indiana Jones. I enjoyed it.
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