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    <body><![CDATA[It has been a long time since I read <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1923820.Holy_Bible_King_James_Version_LDS_Edition_" title="Holy Bible  King James Version (LDS Edition) by Anonymous">Left Behind</a>, but I have one interesting memory of reading it that remains clear and is, I think, worthy of discussion. I'll get to that memory in a second, but first I must digress.<br/><br/>I read this book for a student of mine. She was a very nice lady who c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59906075">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Piloting his 747, Rayford Steele is musing about his wife Irene's irritating religiosity and contemplating the charms of his &quot;drop-dead gorgeous&quot; flight attendant, Hattie. First Irene was into Amway, then Tupperware, and now it's the Rapture of the Saints--the scary last story in the Bible in which Christians are swept to heaven and unbelievers are left behind to endure the Antichrist's Tribulation. Steele believes he'll put the plane on autopilot and go visit Hattie. But Hattie's in a panic: some of the passengers have disappeared! 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. Resembling &quot;a young Robert Redford&quot; and silver-tongued in nine languages, Carpathia is named <em>People</em>'s &quot;Sexiest Man Alive.&quot;  (This reviewer, a former <em>People</em> writer, finds this plot twist plausible.) Meanwhile, Steele teams up with Buck Williams, a buck-the-system newshound, to form the Tribulation Force, an underground of left-behind penitents battling the Antichrist. <p>  Ex-presidential candidate Pat Robertson briefly outsold Michael Crichton with his apocalypse novel <em>The End of the Age</em> (now available on audiocassette), and the similar <em>The Third Millennium</em> sells well, but the Left Behind series  is the absolute champion in the race to make the Book of Revelation into racy thriller reading. <em>--Tim Appelo</em> </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Most people do now know that I have read 7 of the 13 Left Behind books (12 actually, but then they threw on that extra one, and this is not counting the prequels, the kids versions and the horrendous graphic novels: Armageddon can pay off nicely as long as it's delayed). I don't hide the fact, it ju...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2619458">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Piloting his 747, Rayford Steele is musing about his wife Irene's irritating religiosity and contemplating the charms of his &quot;drop-dead gorgeous&quot; flight attendant, Hattie. First Irene was into Amway, then Tupperware, and now it's the Rapture of the Saints--the scary last story in the Bible in which Christians are swept to heaven and unbelievers are left behind to endure the Antichrist's Tribulation. Steele believes he'll put the plane on autopilot and go visit Hattie. But Hattie's in a panic: some of the passengers have disappeared! 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. Resembling &quot;a young Robert Redford&quot; and silver-tongued in nine languages, Carpathia is named <em>People</em>'s &quot;Sexiest Man Alive.&quot;  (This reviewer, a former <em>People</em> writer, finds this plot twist plausible.) Meanwhile, Steele teams up with Buck Williams, a buck-the-system newshound, to form the Tribulation Force, an underground of left-behind penitents battling the Antichrist. <p>  Ex-presidential candidate Pat Robertson briefly outsold Michael Crichton with his apocalypse novel <em>The End of the Age</em> (now available on audiocassette), and the similar <em>The Third Millennium</em> sells well, but the Left Behind series  is the absolute champion in the race to make the Book of Revelation into racy thriller reading. <em>--Tim Appelo</em> </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I felt left out of the Bad Books Club because I completely failed to get past the first chapter of <u>The DaVinci Code</u>, so I read this to keep up. And boy, is this one horrible book! And there's at least 11 more of them! (N.B. - I will not be reading the rest of the series)<br/><br/>The writing is be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11390825">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Piloting his 747, Rayford Steele is musing about his wife Irene's irritating religiosity and contemplating the charms of his &quot;drop-dead gorgeous&quot; flight attendant, Hattie. First Irene was into Amway, then Tupperware, and now it's the Rapture of the Saints--the scary last story in the Bible in which Christians are swept to heaven and unbelievers are left behind to endure the Antichrist's Tribulation. Steele believes he'll put the plane on autopilot and go visit Hattie. But Hattie's in a panic: some of the passengers have disappeared! 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. Resembling &quot;a young Robert Redford&quot; and silver-tongued in nine languages, Carpathia is named <em>People</em>'s &quot;Sexiest Man Alive.&quot;  (This reviewer, a former <em>People</em> writer, finds this plot twist plausible.) Meanwhile, Steele teams up with Buck Williams, a buck-the-system newshound, to form the Tribulation Force, an underground of left-behind penitents battling the Antichrist. <p>  Ex-presidential candidate Pat Robertson briefly outsold Michael Crichton with his apocalypse novel <em>The End of the Age</em> (now available on audiocassette), and the similar <em>The Third Millennium</em> sells well, but the Left Behind series  is the absolute champion in the race to make the Book of Revelation into racy thriller reading. <em>--Tim Appelo</em> </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I reminded myself quite frequently while reading <em>Left Behind</em> that is was fiction.  Christian fiction.  Fear-driven apocalyptic (aka end times) Christian fiction.  But definitely fiction.  <br/><br/>I avoided reading <em>Left Behind</em> for nearly fifteen years, mostly because I avoid anything hyped or ove...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62396307">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Piloting his 747, Rayford Steele is musing about his wife Irene's irritating religiosity and contemplating the charms of his &quot;drop-dead gorgeous&quot; flight attendant, Hattie. First Irene was into Amway, then Tupperware, and now it's the Rapture of the Saints--the scary last story in the Bible in which Christians are swept to heaven and unbelievers are left behind to endure the Antichrist's Tribulation. Steele believes he'll put the plane on autopilot and go visit Hattie. But Hattie's in a panic: some of the passengers have disappeared! 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. Resembling &quot;a young Robert Redford&quot; and silver-tongued in nine languages, Carpathia is named <em>People</em>'s &quot;Sexiest Man Alive.&quot;  (This reviewer, a former <em>People</em> writer, finds this plot twist plausible.) Meanwhile, Steele teams up with Buck Williams, a buck-the-system newshound, to form the Tribulation Force, an underground of left-behind penitents battling the Antichrist. <p>  Ex-presidential candidate Pat Robertson briefly outsold Michael Crichton with his apocalypse novel <em>The End of the Age</em> (now available on audiocassette), and the similar <em>The Third Millennium</em> sells well, but the Left Behind series  is the absolute champion in the race to make the Book of Revelation into racy thriller reading. <em>--Tim Appelo</em> </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, Left Behind (Tyndale, 1995)<br/><br/>So I figured after nine years, it was time for me to get around to reading the first book in the bestselling Christian fiction series in history, Left Behind. I had always avoided it, not because of the subject matter, but by and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12938322">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[This fictional account of life after the Rapture delivers an urgent call to today's readers to prepare their own heart and minister to others.320 pages <p>Spanish available</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like [user: MyFleshSingsOut], my mother demanded I read this -- for me, though, in my senior year of high school (I was no slouch reader or anything, I assure; this was indeed punishment for a handful of books the parents had found, and thrown away -- <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/880695.H_G_Wells" title="H.G. Wells">Henry Miller</a>, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4671.The_Great_Gatsby" title="The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald">The Story of O</a>, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12321.Beyond_Good_and_Evil" title="Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche">Beyond Good and Evil</a>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53194000">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Left Behind]]>
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    <![CDATA[Piloting his 747, Rayford Steele is musing about his wife Irene's irritating religiosity and contemplating the charms of his &quot;drop-dead gorgeous&quot; flight attendant, Hattie. First Irene was into Amway, then Tupperware, and now it's the Rapture of the Saints--the scary last story in the Bible in which Christians are swept to heaven and unbelievers are left behind to endure the Antichrist's Tribulation. Steele believes he'll put the plane on autopilot and go visit Hattie. But Hattie's in a panic: some of the passengers have disappeared! 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. Resembling &quot;a young Robert Redford&quot; and silver-tongued in nine languages, Carpathia is named <em>People</em>'s &quot;Sexiest Man Alive.&quot;  (This reviewer, a former <em>People</em> writer, finds this plot twist plausible.) Meanwhile, Steele teams up with Buck Williams, a buck-the-system newshound, to form the Tribulation Force, an underground of left-behind penitents battling the Antichrist. <p>  Ex-presidential candidate Pat Robertson briefly outsold Michael Crichton with his apocalypse novel <em>The End of the Age</em> (now available on audiocassette), and the similar <em>The Third Millennium</em> sells well, but the Left Behind series  is the absolute champion in the race to make the Book of Revelation into racy thriller reading. <em>--Tim Appelo</em> </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought at first that I wouldn't be who this book was aimed at, but instead, I found the opposite. Since all the devout Christians have been taken by the Rapture, the protagonists are a mix of atheists, agnostics, Christmas Christians, even seemingly devout Christians who could have been truer. Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5691623">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Left Behind]]>
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    <![CDATA[Piloting his 747, Rayford Steele is musing about his wife Irene's irritating religiosity and contemplating the charms of his &quot;drop-dead gorgeous&quot; flight attendant, Hattie. First Irene was into Amway, then Tupperware, and now it's the Rapture of the Saints--the scary last story in the Bible in which Christians are swept to heaven and unbelievers are left behind to endure the Antichrist's Tribulation. Steele believes he'll put the plane on autopilot and go visit Hattie. But Hattie's in a panic: some of the passengers have disappeared! 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. Resembling &quot;a young Robert Redford&quot; and silver-tongued in nine languages, Carpathia is named <em>People</em>'s &quot;Sexiest Man Alive.&quot;  (This reviewer, a former <em>People</em> writer, finds this plot twist plausible.) Meanwhile, Steele teams up with Buck Williams, a buck-the-system newshound, to form the Tribulation Force, an underground of left-behind penitents battling the Antichrist. <p>  Ex-presidential candidate Pat Robertson briefly outsold Michael Crichton with his apocalypse novel <em>The End of the Age</em> (now available on audiocassette), and the similar <em>The Third Millennium</em> sells well, but the Left Behind series  is the absolute champion in the race to make the Book of Revelation into racy thriller reading. <em>--Tim Appelo</em> </p>]]>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I usually have students fill out a card at the start of the semester with information like their major, where they went to high school, etc.  One thing I always ask is what book they read most recently.  The Left Behind series started showing up on those cards a lot a few years ago, so I decided to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26443985">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[This fictional account of life after the Rapture delivers an urgent call to today's readers to prepare their own heart and minister to others.320 pages <p>Spanish available</p>]]>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In a fit of desperation at my father and notstepmother's house, having finished Susan Sontag's <em>Volcano Lover</em> (see? desperate) and having to ration <em>The World to Come</em> for the flight home in case I didn't have time for a bookstore (should there be one at the Tampa airport), I didn't reread any of the b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16476829">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Left Behind]]>
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    <![CDATA[Piloting his 747, Rayford Steele is musing about his wife Irene's irritating religiosity and contemplating the charms of his &quot;drop-dead gorgeous&quot; flight attendant, Hattie. First Irene was into Amway, then Tupperware, and now it's the Rapture of the Saints--the scary last story in the Bible in which Christians are swept to heaven and unbelievers are left behind to endure the Antichrist's Tribulation. Steele believes he'll put the plane on autopilot and go visit Hattie. But Hattie's in a panic: some of the passengers have disappeared! 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. Resembling &quot;a young Robert Redford&quot; and silver-tongued in nine languages, Carpathia is named <em>People</em>'s &quot;Sexiest Man Alive.&quot;  (This reviewer, a former <em>People</em> writer, finds this plot twist plausible.) Meanwhile, Steele teams up with Buck Williams, a buck-the-system newshound, to form the Tribulation Force, an underground of left-behind penitents battling the Antichrist. <p>  Ex-presidential candidate Pat Robertson briefly outsold Michael Crichton with his apocalypse novel <em>The End of the Age</em> (now available on audiocassette), and the similar <em>The Third Millennium</em> sells well, but the Left Behind series  is the absolute champion in the race to make the Book of Revelation into racy thriller reading. <em>--Tim Appelo</em> </p>]]>
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  <date_added>Tue Sep 18 08:26:51 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[i read this entire series.....almost non stop... <br/>they came out with a prequel series, but i figured how many times can you beat a dead horse....<br/><br/>This series was really really good. <br/>I didnt know how i was going to like it, not being a practicing catholic and all, but even if it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6380012">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Left Behind]]>
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    <![CDATA[Piloting his 747, Rayford Steele is musing about his wife Irene's irritating religiosity and contemplating the charms of his &quot;drop-dead gorgeous&quot; flight attendant, Hattie. First Irene was into Amway, then Tupperware, and now it's the Rapture of the Saints--the scary last story in the Bible in which Christians are swept to heaven and unbelievers are left behind to endure the Antichrist's Tribulation. Steele believes he'll put the plane on autopilot and go visit Hattie. But Hattie's in a panic: some of the passengers have disappeared! 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. Resembling &quot;a young Robert Redford&quot; and silver-tongued in nine languages, Carpathia is named <em>People</em>'s &quot;Sexiest Man Alive.&quot;  (This reviewer, a former <em>People</em> writer, finds this plot twist plausible.) Meanwhile, Steele teams up with Buck Williams, a buck-the-system newshound, to form the Tribulation Force, an underground of left-behind penitents battling the Antichrist. <p>  Ex-presidential candidate Pat Robertson briefly outsold Michael Crichton with his apocalypse novel <em>The End of the Age</em> (now available on audiocassette), and the similar <em>The Third Millennium</em> sells well, but the Left Behind series  is the absolute champion in the race to make the Book of Revelation into racy thriller reading. <em>--Tim Appelo</em> </p>]]>
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  <date_added>Wed Aug 29 20:23:57 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The concept is great: what would the Biblical end times prophecies really look like if they happened today?  How could the ancient words of Isaiah and Revelation actually play out in today's world?  What if the rapture occurred right now?!!<br/><br/>While some elements are admittedly intriguing (t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5326526">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Left Behind]]>
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    <![CDATA[Piloting his 747, Rayford Steele is musing about his wife Irene's irritating religiosity and contemplating the charms of his &quot;drop-dead gorgeous&quot; flight attendant, Hattie. First Irene was into Amway, then Tupperware, and now it's the Rapture of the Saints--the scary last story in the Bible in which Christians are swept to heaven and unbelievers are left behind to endure the Antichrist's Tribulation. Steele believes he'll put the plane on autopilot and go visit Hattie. But Hattie's in a panic: some of the passengers have disappeared! 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. Resembling &quot;a young Robert Redford&quot; and silver-tongued in nine languages, Carpathia is named <em>People</em>'s &quot;Sexiest Man Alive.&quot;  (This reviewer, a former <em>People</em> writer, finds this plot twist plausible.) Meanwhile, Steele teams up with Buck Williams, a buck-the-system newshound, to form the Tribulation Force, an underground of left-behind penitents battling the Antichrist. <p>  Ex-presidential candidate Pat Robertson briefly outsold Michael Crichton with his apocalypse novel <em>The End of the Age</em> (now available on audiocassette), and the similar <em>The Third Millennium</em> sells well, but the Left Behind series  is the absolute champion in the race to make the Book of Revelation into racy thriller reading. <em>--Tim Appelo</em> </p>]]>
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  <date_added>Thu Aug 16 19:15:28 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the whole series but I can't remember which book was which at this point. So I'm rating the series overall as a 4.<br/><br/>The story begins the day after the rapture. Everyone who was &quot;left behind&quot; has to figure out what happened. Was it aliens or a terrorist attack? The story un...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4670537">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Left Behind]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I gave it a go, I really really did. The series is so popular and my ex really enjoys the books (ok, they're the only books he ever read, so maybe that should have told me something) so I thought I'd be open-minded and try it. After all, I did like the movie The Rapture and I love religious science ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32822216">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Left Behind]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'll use this one review for all the books of this series I've read (just to save time)and that's inclusive of 1-10. I truly enjoyed them, some a little more than others, but that's probably more of a reaction to my over indulgence than anything on the authors part (I was averaging three or four a w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20945198">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Left Behind]]>
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    <![CDATA[Piloting his 747, Rayford Steele is musing about his wife Irene's irritating religiosity and contemplating the charms of his &quot;drop-dead gorgeous&quot; flight attendant, Hattie. First Irene was into Amway, then Tupperware, and now it's the Rapture of the Saints--the scary last story in the Bible in which Christians are swept to heaven and unbelievers are left behind to endure the Antichrist's Tribulation. Steele believes he'll put the plane on autopilot and go visit Hattie. But Hattie's in a panic: some of the passengers have disappeared! 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. Resembling &quot;a young Robert Redford&quot; and silver-tongued in nine languages, Carpathia is named <em>People</em>'s &quot;Sexiest Man Alive.&quot;  (This reviewer, a former <em>People</em> writer, finds this plot twist plausible.) Meanwhile, Steele teams up with Buck Williams, a buck-the-system newshound, to form the Tribulation Force, an underground of left-behind penitents battling the Antichrist. <p>  Ex-presidential candidate Pat Robertson briefly outsold Michael Crichton with his apocalypse novel <em>The End of the Age</em> (now available on audiocassette), and the similar <em>The Third Millennium</em> sells well, but the Left Behind series  is the absolute champion in the race to make the Book of Revelation into racy thriller reading. <em>--Tim Appelo</em> </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my managers at work actually reccomended this book to me after I told I had read 'The Road'. I have to admit that I was skeptical going into this book only because I knew some of the background due to publicity surrounding the movies. I didn't feel much like reading a bunch of quoted Bible sc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7881437">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Left Behind]]>
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    <![CDATA[Piloting his 747, Rayford Steele is musing about his wife Irene's irritating religiosity and contemplating the charms of his &quot;drop-dead gorgeous&quot; flight attendant, Hattie. First Irene was into Amway, then Tupperware, and now it's the Rapture of the Saints--the scary last story in the Bible in which Christians are swept to heaven and unbelievers are left behind to endure the Antichrist's Tribulation. Steele believes he'll put the plane on autopilot and go visit Hattie. But Hattie's in a panic: some of the passengers have disappeared! 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. Resembling &quot;a young Robert Redford&quot; and silver-tongued in nine languages, Carpathia is named <em>People</em>'s &quot;Sexiest Man Alive.&quot;  (This reviewer, a former <em>People</em> writer, finds this plot twist plausible.) Meanwhile, Steele teams up with Buck Williams, a buck-the-system newshound, to form the Tribulation Force, an underground of left-behind penitents battling the Antichrist. <p>  Ex-presidential candidate Pat Robertson briefly outsold Michael Crichton with his apocalypse novel <em>The End of the Age</em> (now available on audiocassette), and the similar <em>The Third Millennium</em> sells well, but the Left Behind series  is the absolute champion in the race to make the Book of Revelation into racy thriller reading. <em>--Tim Appelo</em> </p>]]>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in college but never got around to reading the rest of the series past book three. Re-visiting it, I found that I looked at certain things alot different than I had previously. More of it actually made sense this time around. <br/><br/>After the strange disappearance of thousands ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5114434">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Left Behind]]>
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    <![CDATA[Piloting his 747, Rayford Steele is musing about his wife Irene's irritating religiosity and contemplating the charms of his &quot;drop-dead gorgeous&quot; flight attendant, Hattie. First Irene was into Amway, then Tupperware, and now it's the Rapture of the Saints--the scary last story in the Bible in which Christians are swept to heaven and unbelievers are left behind to endure the Antichrist's Tribulation. Steele believes he'll put the plane on autopilot and go visit Hattie. But Hattie's in a panic: some of the passengers have disappeared! 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. Resembling &quot;a young Robert Redford&quot; and silver-tongued in nine languages, Carpathia is named <em>People</em>'s &quot;Sexiest Man Alive.&quot;  (This reviewer, a former <em>People</em> writer, finds this plot twist plausible.) Meanwhile, Steele teams up with Buck Williams, a buck-the-system newshound, to form the Tribulation Force, an underground of left-behind penitents battling the Antichrist. <p>  Ex-presidential candidate Pat Robertson briefly outsold Michael Crichton with his apocalypse novel <em>The End of the Age</em> (now available on audiocassette), and the similar <em>The Third Millennium</em> sells well, but the Left Behind series  is the absolute champion in the race to make the Book of Revelation into racy thriller reading. <em>--Tim Appelo</em> </p>]]>
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  <date_added>Mon May 14 10:40:03 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book (and the rest of the series) back before it hit any best-seller lists.  I've always been a fan of apocalyptic literature (<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Salem Kirban" title="Salem Kirban">Salem Kirban</a> anyone?), so this interested me right away.<br/><br/>The series is decent.  It's easy reading, with a good mixture of adventure and drama.  I give...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1203488">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Piloting his 747, Rayford Steele is musing about his wife Irene's irritating religiosity and contemplating the charms of his &quot;drop-dead gorgeous&quot; flight attendant, Hattie. First Irene was into Amway, then Tupperware, and now it's the Rapture of the Saints--the scary last story in the Bible in which Christians are swept to heaven and unbelievers are left behind to endure the Antichrist's Tribulation. Steele believes he'll put the plane on autopilot and go visit Hattie. But Hattie's in a panic: some of the passengers have disappeared! 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. Resembling &quot;a young Robert Redford&quot; and silver-tongued in nine languages, Carpathia is named <em>People</em>'s &quot;Sexiest Man Alive.&quot;  (This reviewer, a former <em>People</em> writer, finds this plot twist plausible.) Meanwhile, Steele teams up with Buck Williams, a buck-the-system newshound, to form the Tribulation Force, an underground of left-behind penitents battling the Antichrist. <p>  Ex-presidential candidate Pat Robertson briefly outsold Michael Crichton with his apocalypse novel <em>The End of the Age</em> (now available on audiocassette), and the similar <em>The Third Millennium</em> sells well, but the Left Behind series  is the absolute champion in the race to make the Book of Revelation into racy thriller reading. <em>--Tim Appelo</em> </p>]]>
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  <date_added>Fri Jan 09 16:23:22 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think whether or not you enjoy this book depends on what you consider a &quot;good&quot; book.  If you think all good books are well written, then this is probably isn't for you.  If you think good books have to be 100% accurate, then this book probably isn't for you.  However, if, like me much of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42509522">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Piloting his 747, Rayford Steele is musing about his wife Irene's irritating religiosity and contemplating the charms of his &quot;drop-dead gorgeous&quot; flight attendant, Hattie. First Irene was into Amway, then Tupperware, and now it's the Rapture of the Saints--the scary last story in the Bible in which Christians are swept to heaven and unbelievers are left behind to endure the Antichrist's Tribulation. Steele believes he'll put the plane on autopilot and go visit Hattie. But Hattie's in a panic: some of the passengers have disappeared! 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. Resembling &quot;a young Robert Redford&quot; and silver-tongued in nine languages, Carpathia is named <em>People</em>'s &quot;Sexiest Man Alive.&quot;  (This reviewer, a former <em>People</em> writer, finds this plot twist plausible.) Meanwhile, Steele teams up with Buck Williams, a buck-the-system newshound, to form the Tribulation Force, an underground of left-behind penitents battling the Antichrist. <p>  Ex-presidential candidate Pat Robertson briefly outsold Michael Crichton with his apocalypse novel <em>The End of the Age</em> (now available on audiocassette), and the similar <em>The Third Millennium</em> sells well, but the Left Behind series  is the absolute champion in the race to make the Book of Revelation into racy thriller reading. <em>--Tim Appelo</em> </p>]]>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Mar 18 22:25:53 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[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.  <br/><br/>(For example: Russia, at the outset of the story, attacks Israel, attemp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49740993">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Left Behind]]>
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    <![CDATA[Piloting his 747, Rayford Steele is musing about his wife Irene's irritating religiosity and contemplating the charms of his &quot;drop-dead gorgeous&quot; flight attendant, Hattie. First Irene was into Amway, then Tupperware, and now it's the Rapture of the Saints--the scary last story in the Bible in which Christians are swept to heaven and unbelievers are left behind to endure the Antichrist's Tribulation. Steele believes he'll put the plane on autopilot and go visit Hattie. But Hattie's in a panic: some of the passengers have disappeared! 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. Resembling &quot;a young Robert Redford&quot; and silver-tongued in nine languages, Carpathia is named <em>People</em>'s &quot;Sexiest Man Alive.&quot;  (This reviewer, a former <em>People</em> writer, finds this plot twist plausible.) Meanwhile, Steele teams up with Buck Williams, a buck-the-system newshound, to form the Tribulation Force, an underground of left-behind penitents battling the Antichrist. <p>  Ex-presidential candidate Pat Robertson briefly outsold Michael Crichton with his apocalypse novel <em>The End of the Age</em> (now available on audiocassette), and the similar <em>The Third Millennium</em> sells well, but the Left Behind series  is the absolute champion in the race to make the Book of Revelation into racy thriller reading. <em>--Tim Appelo</em> </p>]]>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[if you grew up in church like i did, this first book of the series will terrify you. the rest will keep you spell bound. <br/><br/>i would recommend these books to anyone though, they are fantastic and very well written. <br/><br/>they reference scripture a lot and i like to book mark those plac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6164323">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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