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Summary: Slow & Boring
Review: The Left Behind series takes yet another boring turn as it slowly runs out of gas!Having read all of the previous books in the series I'm sure I'll trudge through the remaining installments but it will be a trudge. Jerry's style is boring, never ending, blah blah blah, between characters we care nothing about because there are just simply too many! The entire story at this point is nothing but all these boring characters repeating time after time the same things, no setting of scenes, no attention to visual details, etc. It's just bad writing. You can get the jist of the entire book and miss very little by just reading the last two or three chapters. I'm sorry but that's not a good book.[...]
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Summary: To much small talk
Review: I am having a hard time getting interested in this book. I am on chapter 6 & wonder if I should stop. There is too much dialog that is meaningless. I have read all the books & I thought Desecration had the same small talk. It seems like it it takes Chapters to describe a couple of living hours. This might be the last book for me.
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Summary: All Filler, No Substance
Review: I got hooked into this series grudgingly, but found myself enjoying the early books in the series, especially the first 5. Since then, the quality of writing has gone steadily downhill, and the authors tend to simply rehash most of the conversations and actions we've already seen. After reading this book, I felt all the authors did was take money out of my pocket and put it in theirs. This series could have been easily written in 4 books without compromising the characters or their actions. Those of us raised on authors like Clancy, Grisham, and Ludlum will feel very cheated by the way this series has been stretched like old Silly Putty. Not much in the way of new plot developments. The heroes still are pretty much doing what they want, while Carpathia and his minions are fodder for each new tribulation. The bad guys show greater ineptness as time goes on, and it's amazing that Carpathia got this far with henchmen that make Moe & Curly look like Albert Einstein and Steven Hawking. Do yourself a favor and don't bother with this edition, unless you feel compelled to complete your set (heck, you've made it this far in the series, what's one more, right?)
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Summary: the juice isn't running out
Review: Although this is the 10th book out of twelve and some author's juice might be running out, this book is as good as the previous ones. It's got suspense, drama, sorrow, and amazing events. This book is not sugarcoated; it's the truth.
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Summary: Not As Good As Earlier Books, But Still Worth Reading
Review: I have read each book in the "Left Behind" series, and I feel this one lacked a little of the suspense and action of the eariler volumes. In "The Remnant", the Jews gathered in Petra have been attacked by Carpathia's forces. Miracuously, the Judah-ites survive after having two bombs and a missile fired at them. Carpathia of course blames the pilots when in reality, God was protecting his chosen people. The story moves on to the rescue of Sebastian by Chloe and Mac, which, in my opinion, took up too much space in the book. Jenkins and LaHaye must have dragged this episode out for well over 100 pages. I wish this incident could have been wrapped up more quickly and more time spent on other events. I also had a hard time keeping track of all of the characters, old and new. I would hate to guess how many different ones there are now. Hopefully, not too many more will be introduced in the following volumes. In the last 2 chapters (38 pages), the authors cover approximately 1 year of time. I felt this was too much time to cover accurately in such a short space. As I stated earlier, they devoted approximately 100 pages to the rescue of Sebastian which took nowhere near 1 year. I wish they would have spaced things out a little more evenly. The last judgements are just touched upon and they are not allowed much detail. The authors should have spent a little more time and a few more pages with this part of the book. Overall, I did enjoy this book. I have come to like LaHaye's and Jenkins' style of story telling very much. Although I do recommend this book, I hope the ones to follow are a little better laid out than this one was.
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Summary: Astonishing
Review: THE REMNANT, book ten in the "Left Behind" series draws readers ever closer to the last days of Tribulation. The 'Bowl Judgements' become, one after the other, more mind arresting and scary. Miracles abound in this narrative as GOD uses his ANGELS to protect believers and the undecided. The authors' talent at creating word pictures brings the wonder and glory heaped on Christ's own and the horror heaped on those wearing the mark of the antichrist into near reality. Page after page readers are drawn into the midst of this fasinating tenth book in a powerful series.
Beverly J Scott author of RIGHTEOUS REVENGE
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Summary: get on with it!
Review: The "Left Behind" series seems to be running out of gas. Vol. 10, "The Remnant" is only marginally better than Vol. 9's "Desceration." At least the time-line pace has picked up. Where some books only covered a few days, this one has covered over a year of time. Having read 10 volumes so far I will stoically see the series to its conclusion but I'm getting a bit weary of Jenkins' style of writing (Jenkins does all the real writing, LeHaye only gives him outlines about the Biblical prophesies). Page after page will be just dialogue between characters with no interruption to set a scene, to indicate any subtext. "The Remnant" spent probably over 100 pages on the rescue of Sebastian alone. C'mon! The series has been at its best when it focuses on the plagues and miracles and on the evangelism. And the scenes involving Carpathia are always entertaining. But the story inevitably bogs down when it focuses on the other characters. It is evident in this book that Jenkins was trying to spread the action around. Buck Williams and Rayford Steele dominate most of the action of the earlier books and in "The Remnant" they are given very little to do. But the other characters aren't that particularly interesting to me. There are just too many characters in the story.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: This book is as good as all the others. I enjoy the series and wait for each book to be released. A good continuation to the Left Behind Series.
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Summary: Shoddy James Bond like story wrapped in Revelations.
Review: There have been some improvements and alot of downfall in LaHaye and Jenkin's latest Left Behind book "Remnants." First the improvements. I guess either a ghost writer was hired by Tim and Jer, or they both learned how to use the spell/grammar checker. The book was a lot easier to read than the last outing "Desecration." The story's flow was a little better, but not much. Secondly, I guess Tim and Jer decided to drop the stereotypical pigeon-english talk that prevails when Chang, Ming or Chang's parents talk. They talk a little better in this story, or the mother speaks a little more fluently. I'm glad that the authors decided to accept that not all oriental people talk in broken English. It was either that or everyone is at the point in the Tribulation that God has dropped the language barrier. I'm not sure. Downfall is plenty here, I'm not too sure where to being.
I guess my biggest beef with the story is how the authors treat people's reaction to the Tribulation. You see, the issue here is God is passing judgements on humanity. The people that are left behind on earth either recognize that God exist and that they sin and need to be cleansed of sin, or they ignore that God exist and follow Satan. These judgements are nothing minor and make a full force hurricane look like a spring shower. How do people react when such catastrophes like the ocean turning to blood, or the sun, stars and moon loose 1/3rd of its illumination? Nothing. Doesn't phase anyone. Oh well, what else is new? Nobody is behaving in this book as if the world has gone down the chute. No realistic behavior as the impact of plagues and environmental changes. What do you think something like that would do to a person? I wonder myself, and I'm sure Tim and Jerry wonder too, but never explore it here.
The other thing about the story, that gets my goat, is the James Bond like plot. Is this a book about what it would be like living during the great Tribulation, learning to forgive and ask/accept forgiveness or is this a story about Christian spies? I think if you compare book #1; Left Behind, with this book, and you'll find the authors have de-railed completely from what they intended. The characters here are ever so-annoying, and ever so 2-dimensional. If Chloe was a real person, I'd just want to walk up and smack her as for the other characters. Each character just gnaws on you for some reason or another. Chloe is a major pain since she wants to spend more time on "mission" for God than on spending quality time with her child, especially when that time is very short and disaster is just around the corner. Chloe makes all deadbeat dads look like saints. Pathetic.
The Anti-Christ, and False-prophet are reduced to a comicbook like buffoonery instead of an evil incarnate. Fortunato doesn't do much in these stories accept to fawn over Carpathia. There's no real prophesising by him per se. Just alot of "yes sir" and "no sir."
Carpathia tops him all. Not really scary, or the scariness just doesn't come out of this guy like I'd expect from someone so evil. Actually I found on the false-prophets that Leon imbues with Satan's power more frightening than Carpathia and Fortunato put together.
There is a scene 2/3rds through the book, where a character claiming to be Christ lures some "undecided" defectors from Petra to a marking station. He amazes them with supernatural feats such as changing the weather, water from the ground, a basket of many loaves of bread...etc. He then bestows the mark of the beast on each persons heads before killing them all in a horrible fashion. That scene alone I found the most gripping. A shame it was the only gripping scene in the book.
Now if they only instilled that same evil that was demonstrated by the prophet onto Carpathia, then we'd have a more formidable Anti-Christ. I also felt the story was rushed in some aspects, as a year in the Tribulation is covered in a couple of paragraphs. I'm not sure the authors wanted to drag out the story another year for us readers, as they deposit us in year 5 of the Tribulation. Only 2 more years before the appearing of Christ and a year before the brink of Armageddon starts. Very little is covered story wise and the reader is not really left with much of a cliffhanger as the previous book. I can't say I'd recommend reading further books in this series for the only exception to see what happens to the characters. Even then I don't think I can muster up much in the avenue of caring.
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Summary: Degrading into soap opera...
Review: I've been disappointed in the TV show ER, in how they have abandoned the great medical action and descended into a soap opera of character combinations. That mirrors the feeling I have toward The Remnant. I feel that the tribulation action has been replaced by the petty interactions between the main characters. The whole thrill of the books is the way they bring to life the Biblical prophecies of the book of Revelation. This one didn't do that very well for me. It was very disjointed, especially in the scenes with the angels appearing. It was hard for me to sense continuity in this book. It could be that this book will prove to be a foundational book for action in the ones to come, but I have to admit that I had to force-read this.
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