About this title: Based on the apocalyptic prophesies of the Book of Revelation, this book tells the harrowing story of commercial airlines pilot Captain Rayford Steele, a wayward Christian who is left behind on earth following the end of the world. The first of 12 books in an astoundingly successful series of Christian action novels shows Rayford's gradual climb to self-awareness and repentance and introduces the Antichrist's seven-year reign of terror. LEFT BEHIND held a spot on the Publishers Weekly trade paperback best-seller list for 22 weeks.
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"I'm so glad that I started with this book and continued on through the whole series of the Left Behind books. So ingrossing that I read it in one day."
"this book is a great book and it is a page turner if you think it is not interesting in the first 2 or 3 chapters believe me it will get more and more interesting its awesome i could not put this book down so read it and see what happens *awesome*"
"I'd totally forgot that my mom actually paid me 50 dollars to read this book when I was about 11 or 12. Yeah, she's pretty religious. She wanted me to read the second and third books of the series as well. I think I may have lied about reading the second one in order to get another payment. The memory's a bit fuzzy on this. The whole thing is actually kind of unsettling the more I think about it. It's a bit of a drag having parents that really believe in Jesus and heaven and hell.
Oh, and obviously this book was utterly terrible."
"I'm not going to finish this. I thought it would be good research, but it moves so painfully slow, and not a page passes without either a really hackneyed sentence or a totally implausible geopolitical plot twist.
(For example: Russia, at the outset of the story, attacks Israel, attempting to carpet-bomb them back to pre-biblical times. Why would Russia's leaders do such a thing? In order to steal Israel's fertilizer, of course! Even more implausible: Russia is unable to undertake such a balls-out attack without the crucial assistance of their regional ally Ethiopia ...)
It's interesting that Tim LaHaye is publicly known as the author of these books. I would guess that he provides the scripture-driven plot outline, and co-author Jerry Jenkins supplies the nebbishy characterizations and cliche-ridden prose. (Though, to his credit, Jenkins does have a knack for the sort of zippy dialogue popular in Hollywood screenplays and romance novels.) At any rate, I think Jenkins is getting the short end of the stick here, as even Goodreads considers Tim LaHaye the sole author. (Can I get a librarian over here?)
Anyway, I'd love to score a copy of Cliff's Notes for this series, and just enjoy the ridiculousness of the plot outline. As it is, I think I'll just skip to the last half of the tenth and final book in the series, and let my imagination fill the gap."
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