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Left Behind: The Literary Equivlent of Crack

post #1 of 8
7/15/02 at 2:55pm
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With Harry Potter, they're addicting, but at least they won't mess up your mind.

This series from fundamentalist minister Tim LaHaye and writer Jerry B. Jenkins is badly written, poorly plotted, promotes anti-globalization, and anti-Semitism. They are a joke.

But they're also extremely addicting. For all their flaws, once you've started you can't seem to stop reading them....
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post #2 of 8
7/15/02 at 4:27pm
My mom and dad started reading these things.

I can't seem to read series books. The last series books I read gave me such an emotional scar from reading them, that I'd assume stick a hot poker in my eye instead of read another series.

BTW: I also steer clear of religious books in general.
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post #3 of 8
7/15/02 at 4:55pm
Was that the Spot books, billy?
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post #4 of 8
7/15/02 at 5:01pm
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Blofeld:
Was that the Spot books, billy?
No it was "Blofeld's Travels" Subtitled, 'Books to scrape your eyes with'
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post #5 of 8
7/31/02 at 1:59pm
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RathBandu Hits NYC In 5 Weeks:
With Harry Potter, they're addicting, but at least they won't mess up your mind.

This series from fundamentalist minister Tim LaHaye and writer Jerry B. Jenkins is badly written, poorly plotted, promotes anti-globalization, and anti-Semitism. They are a joke.

But they're also extremely addicting. For all their flaws, once you've started you can't seem to stop reading them....
I read one. it was quite easy to stop. poorly realized, pulled-punch apocalyptic crap...and thats not even thinking about the pedantic aspects of it.
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post #6 of 8
8/5/02 at 12:43pm
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walter-konkrete:
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RathBandu Hits NYC In 5 Weeks:
With Harry Potter, they're addicting, but at least they won't mess up your mind.

This series from fundamentalist minister Tim LaHaye and writer Jerry B. Jenkins is badly written, poorly plotted, promotes anti-globalization, and anti-Semitism. They are a joke.

But they're also extremely addicting. For all their flaws, once you've started you can't seem to stop reading them....
I read one. it was quite easy to stop. poorly realized, pulled-punch apocalyptic crap...and thats not even thinking about the pedantic aspects of it.
I like them just to see someone else's view of the apocalyptic books. I have seen them widely criticized for poor writing, etc and I can see that but I own the first 8 and will likely have them all. It's like my love for Will Smith movies. I know they're bad but I just can't help myself.
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post #7 of 8
8/5/02 at 1:00pm
I guess my problem is that the biblical apocalypse described in the scriptures is so damn bizarre and interesting, the left behind series seems like its softened up, simplified and ultimately kind of generic, and seems to re-contextualize a macabre and powerful myth into a pretty prosaic diatribe. There's potential in that material...but the left behind books are just so...blah.
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post #8 of 8
8/5/02 at 3:59pm
Ah very interesting look at it.

I am afraid any look at the Apocalypse by media will always fall short of what is written there.

Far short.
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