Tag: Left Behind

Glorious Appearing: The End of Days (Left Behind #12)

Glorious Appearing: The End of Days[rating:.5/5]

I’ve read (or rather suffered) through the entire Left Behind series. The first few books were fabulous but slowly and painfully dragged into the most hideously written and endlessly drawn out piece of literary drivel ever subjected upon God’s people. I had the misfortune of accidentally wandering into a Christian bookstore on the first day that Glorious Appearing was unleashed. Having suffered through the last several books, with the alleged premise that this would be the “final” book in the series, I couldn’t imagine it being any worse. To say I was wrong is nothing less than a gross understatement. Unlike every other poorly written book in this series, I simply couldn’t force myself to wade through this book in order to reach the end. In fact, I simply gave up for weeks at a time and recently managed to get to the end. The only redeeming value to festering end of the Left Behind Series is that it is, without question, one of the best cures for insomnia ever created. At this point, I’m thinking about putting my “complete” (wanna bet there are more sequels?) set of Left Behind on eBay but it would be a sin to subject even your worst enemy to this series. Heck, even my cat would get mad if I lined her box with it. LaHaye and Jenkins should be disgusted with themselves for spewing this endless money-making series upon the public.

Armageddon (Left Behind #11)

Armageddon (Left Behind #11)[rating:.5/5]

Come on guys, just END IT ALL. I was enthralled with the early books in the series . . . now; it’s like sitting around and watching the grass grow. I never realized that a “battle” could be so boring. The story line is nothing less than trite. The characters are completely shallow and the constant bouncing around, from one scene to another, gives the book a feeling of a cheaply produced rap video – yeeech – if the story line flickered any faster, the authors could evoke an epidemic of epileptic seizures in those that don’t even suffer from that horrible illness! Rayford on an ATV? Give us a break! At least he could have been on a moped! While the series initially captured a lot of dedicated readers who have been willing to suffer through the last several books just to finish what we started, there is no way that this series will continue to attract readers in the future – why would anyone want to spend the time and money in such a tortuously long series of books that reads like a comic book. Should a second edition of this series ever come out (let’s hope not), one suggestion would be to change the epilogue in each book to – “Same bat time, same bat channel,” same bat characters, same bat plot. . . etc., etc., etc.