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Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days (Left Behind, Book 1)
by Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins

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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1164007.Left_Behind_A_Novel_of_the_Earth_s_Last_Days?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days (Left Behind, Book 1)" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1181535661m/1164007.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1164007.Left_Behind_A_Novel_of_the_Earth_s_Last_Days?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15451.Tim_LaHaye">Tim LaHaye</a> 
 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16476829?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 In a fit of desperation at my father and notstepmother's house, having finished Susan Sontag's 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 books I've sent the two of them over the years or try any of my father's westerns or spy thrillers (I hate pulp paperbacks as a format) but opened this (part of a complete set, in hardcover). 
 
 There is the so-far genius, nearly-page-by-page analysis at slacktivist.typepad.com, which spends a lot more time on it than I am willing to. This post, e.g., highlights one form of the book's rampant immoral stupidity (without any spoilers): <A HREF="<a target="_blank" href="http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2004/08/lb_dr_dives_is_.html">http://slacktivist.typepad.com...</a>. I needed to pass five hours and I did; now I'm passing more time with the much better written and more diverting criticism.
 
 My one comment is that -- don't be shocked -- the basic premise of this book (not "novel") is ludicrous. The premise: Howevermany people disappear, in what is an undeniable proof of one version of the Christian god. If that happened, everyone would believe, because, hey, proof. There'd be no danger of the Antichrist coming to power because everyone would have seen the evidence (the Rapture) to enable a change of their belief, would read and believe the one text that, against all previous logic and evidence, did turn out to be true, and would not fall under the Antichrist's spell. Easy. 
 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/576242?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>

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recommended for: those who'd rather snark at this brand of weakness rather than read a genre they don't care for.

In a fit of desperation at my father and notstepmother's house, having finished Susan Sontag's 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 books I've sent the two of them over the years or try any of my father's westerns or spy thrillers (I hate pulp paperbacks as a format) but opened this (part of a complete set, in hardcover).

There is the so-far genius, nearly-page-by-page analysis at slacktivist.typepad.com, which spends a lot more time on it than I am willing to. This post, e.g., highlights one form of the book's rampant immoral stupidity (without any spoilers): <A HREF="http://slacktivist.typepad.com.... I needed to pass five hours and I did; now I'm passing more time with the much better written ...more

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