Left Behind?

I read up to like the 6th one. Their easy to read and pretty good overall (granted i was like 15).. but it didnt seem like they weren't going anywhere.
 
welsh said:
Has anyone read the Left Behind series?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/series/-/13/ref=pd_sr_ec_ser_b/103-4710497-9991032

Considering there are about a dozen books and they have made movies, this has got some following. But I tried to read it and couldn't get through the first chapter.

Does it get any better?
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I bought and read the first one with a gift card I had and it was pretty entertaining. The first half of the book is pretty slow but it starts to pick up as the ideas of Revelation start coming together. I enjoy how it puts a modern twist on the Bible and would have read the rest but I typically buy my books and there's no way I can afford to buy 12 bloody books in a series. Unfortunately, it's written for the masses and thus, it isn't written with too much intelligence.

As for the books having a mass following, its called the American south. I know all my family down there'll eat any fiction if its "good old christian stuff."
 
welsh said:
Has anyone read the Left Behind series?
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Your timing is uncanny. (Or could it be... an omen?) Just yesterday a Christian friend lent me the first book in the series. I haven't actually started yet and the style didn't seem too great at a glance, but I promised to read it so I will. Would you say it qualifies as fantasy (under some definition of the term)? The concept seems like a cross between The Stand and The Langoliers.
 
Per said:
welsh said:
Has anyone read the Left Behind series?
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Your timing is uncanny. (Or could it be... an omen?) Just yesterday a Christian friend lent me the first book in the series. I haven't actually started yet and the style didn't seem too great at a glance, but I promised to read it so I will. Would you say it qualifies as fantasy (under some definition of the term)? The concept seems like a cross between The Stand and The Langoliers.
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The problem is, nothing actually happens really in one single book. They are VERY open-ended and definitely aim to get you to keep buying one after another. The first book, it's questionable if it can qualify as fantasy. The only real "mystical" thing that happens in the story is when everyone disappears at the beginning. Everything else in the story could very easily be part of reality and is just interpreted as being part of the "end."
 
The Rapture has happened, abruptly driverless cars are crashing all over, and the slick, sinister Romanian Nicolae Carpathia plans to use the UN to establish one world government and religion.
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:shock: aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
 
Sovz said:
The Rapture has happened, abruptly driverless cars are crashing all over, and the slick, sinister Romanian Nicolae Carpathia plans to use the UN to establish one world government and religion.
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:shock: aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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I doubt the book features painful things happening to genitalia tho.
 
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