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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27523.Left_Behind?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Left Behind" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167881648m/27523.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27523.Left_Behind?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Left Behind</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15451.Tim_LaHaye">Tim LaHaye</a><br/><br/>
  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33013581?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
  rating: 2 of 5 stars<br/>I picked this up at a library book sale for about 30 cents; Christian fundamentalist propaganda is hardly something I want to support, but I figured it might be good for a laugh.  I read the thing in just a few hours, and I have to admit that on one level -- that of just pure modern thriller, a la Clancy, Cussler or Koontz, it's not too bad.  Sure the characters are totally cardboard -- "Buck" is the only one of the main half-dozen that registers as even remotely real -- but the pacing is whip-fast and the crosscutting between characters pretty well-done.  On a second level, that of narrative plausibility, it pretty much fails; really, if such an event as a huge chunk of the world's population (how many?  no estimate is ever given; the "news" is given very little coverage except from the POV of a select few people, despite one main character being a newsman!) suddenly disappearing were to really occur in the manner described, surely a VERY large percentage of those "left behind" would indeed start to believe that a Biblical solution was the correct one -- not to mention the previous Israeli-Russian conflict, clearly only possible through supernatural agency.  And on a third level -- message -- well, let's just say the authors probably aren't making their case to anyone who's not already a fanatic.  This was the area that did have me laughing out loud; if only the writing had been just a bit worse, we would have a genuine Bad Classic.
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bookshelves: nonsense
recommended for: nobody
status: Read in September, 2008

I picked this up at a library book sale for about 30 cents; Christian fundamentalist propaganda is hardly something I want to support, but I figured it might be good for a laugh. I read the thing in just a few hours, and I have to admit that on one level -- that of just pure modern thriller, a la Clancy, Cussler or Koontz, it's not too bad. Sure the characters are totally cardboard -- "Buck" is the only one of the main half-dozen that registers as even remotely real -- but the pacing is whip-fast and the crosscutting between characters pretty well-done. On a second level, that of narrative plausibility, it pretty much fails; really, if such an event as a huge chunk of the world's population (how many? no estimate is ever given; the "news" is given very little coverage except from the POV of a select few people, despite one main character being a newsman!) suddenly disappearing were to really occur in the manner described, surely a VERY large percentage of those ...more

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