false 27523 38 Piloting his 747, Rayford Steele is musing about his wife Irene's irritating religiosity and contemplating the charms of his "drop-dead gorgeous" 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 "a young Robert Redford" and silver-tongued in nine languages, Carpathia is named <I>People</I>'s "Sexiest Man Alive." (This reviewer, a former <I>People</I> 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 <I>The End of the Age</I> (now available on audiocassette), and the similar <I>The Third Millennium</I> sells well, but the Left Behind series is the absolute champion in the race to make the Book of Revelation into racy thriller reading. <I>--Tim Appelo</I> 972769 book 1995 Left Behind total:8291|5:2358|4:2202|3:1912|2:976|1:843| 8291 29129 9864 899 3 13 false false Sat Mar 23 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Tue Jun 16 11:31:13 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 19:19:22 -0700 2009 Left Behind, 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.

I read this book for a student of mine. She was a very nice lady who c...more...]]> 1 12 false false Tue Jan 01 12:31:45 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 01 12:58:56 -0800 2008 The DaVinci Code, 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)

The writing is be...more...]]> 3 9 false true Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 16:36:15 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 05:47:28 -0700 2009 1 Left Behind that is was fiction. Christian fiction. Fear-driven apocalyptic (aka end times) Christian fiction. But definitely fiction.

I avoided reading Left Behind for nearly fifteen years, mostly because I avoid anything hyped or ove...more...]]> 1 8 false false Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Sat Jan 19 20:05:01 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 19 20:05:01 -0800 2008
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 ...more...]]> 1 7 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Sat Apr 18 21:35:31 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 21:49:58 -0700 2009 Henry Miller, The Story of O, Beyond Good and Evil...more...]]> 1 7 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Jul 06 11:32:13 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 12:52:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 3 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 19:35:04 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 19:55:25 -0800 2008 Volcano Lover (see? desperate) and having to ration The World to Come 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...more...]]> 4 4 false false Tue Sep 18 08:26:51 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 18 08:33:02 -0700 2007 they came out with a prequel series, but i figured how many times can you beat a dead horse....

This series was really really good.
I didnt know how i was going to like it, not being a practicing catholic and all, but even if it...more...]]> 4 3 false false Thu Aug 16 19:15:28 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 16 19:22:47 -0700 2007
The story begins the day after the rapture. Everyone who was "left behind" has to figure out what happened. Was it aliens or a terrorist attack? The story un...more...]]> 1 5 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Sat Sep 13 22:51:14 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 13 22:58:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Thu Apr 24 22:01:39 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 21:39:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 18 07:36:37 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 01 10:44:41 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 4 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 05 02:41:55 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 16 00:49:31 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 3 false false Wed Aug 29 20:23:57 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 22:00:04 -0700 2007
While some elements are admittedly intriguing (t...more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 25 17:57:45 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 09 18:13:33 -0700 2007
After the strange disappearance of thousands ...more...]]> 4 3 false false Fri Jan 09 16:23:22 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 16:29:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 2 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 18 22:25:53 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 09:44:25 -0700 2009
(For example: Russia, at the outset of the story, attacks Israel, attemp...more...]]> 5 3 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Sep 13 14:29:54 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 13 14:40:27 -0700 2007
i would recommend these books to anyone though, they are fantastic and very well written.

they reference scripture a lot and i like to book mark those plac...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Dec 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 16:25:01 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 22:12:18 -0800 2008
This is a speculative fiction about how the authors env...more...]]> 1 5 false false Sat Apr 18 08:26:59 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 09:24:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2370143