Left Behind [The Trilogy] : Any Good?

[Remus Lupin]

This actually does get covered. Sorta. Kinda. In a typically LaHaye and Jenkin's fashion.

http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2007/04/lb_why_doctors_.html

BTW this is the link for the Slacktivist crowd's "Fan Fic" section.

http://exharpazo.blogspot.com/

I went back and re-read that. Man! I wish I could write that incisively!

Thanks for the fan-fic link as well.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Anyone have a link for the start of the LB discussion in slacktivist? I'm intrigued, but want to start at the beginning, and the slacktivist site is a bit tough to navigate.

 

[Rackhir]

Anyone have a link for the start of the LB discussion in slacktivist? I'm intrigued, but want to start at the beginning, and the slacktivist site is a bit tough to navigate.

Here you go.

http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2003/10/left_behind_is_.html

 

[Relique Hunter]

GAGH!

Worst. Trilogy. EVAR!

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Thanks for the link! I'm having tremendous fun now reading from the beginning. The comments make for good reading, too. I particularl liked:

You know, if it weren't for the dreadfully wooden writing style and the utter lack of a sense of humor, these books could very easily become the Monty Python of Apocalyptic send up

 

[Remus Lupin]

This week's entry is up, and very funny!

Leadership!

 

[Steve Jung]

I liked the comment about Darth Vader being scarier than Carpathia.

 

[Darkwolf71]

The books themselves were fairly enjoyable. (The first few anyway, I never finished the series.)

No, they aren't the best prose written, but they aren't the atrocities everyone is making them out to be. I chalk that up to... nvm. Rules and all.

If you want good post-apocalyptic fiction with little to no real foundation in scripture, The Stand or Swan Song will serve you better. If you want a speculative account of how the events of the Book of Revelation might come about, that is biblically based (whether you agree or not is up to you, but shouldn't interfere with a sampling of at least the first book.) then Left Behind might interest you.

Yes, there is heavy usage of phones, but the main characters end up in various countries around the world... how would you like them to communicate? Telepathy? There is also heavy use of laptops and the intrawebs, as should be expected. Heavily (even overly) used plot device? Sure. Fetish? Hardly.



Now, as to the movies. Mediocre at best, but definitely better than the 'Tribulation' trilogy that is a few years older. Kirk Cameron is a decent enough actor and I believe his film wife is his real life wife, who also does a decent job. Special effects are a bit cheesy, but not horrible. And of course the fact that the series didn't get finished. So, much like the books they aren't high quality films, but they are hugely better than other available Christian funded similar projects. Worth a rental, but not something you probably want to buy, unless they are in the Wal-Mart bargain bin.

 

[Remus Lupin]

Oh, Darkwolf ...

Really, go and read the Slacktivist critique pages. They're great reading all by themselves. And, if you're concerned about anti-Christian bias, he is an evangelical Christian himself.

I would say more, but in order to do so I'd have to upset Eric's grandma. Just check out Slacktivist.

 

[Darkwolf71]

Not sure I care what his religious beliefs are. Going through a book 2-3 pages at a time ripping it apart, and taking five years to do it, is pathetically obsessive. I think I'll pass, thanks all the same.

I mean, I don't even listen to my friends do that with movies for more than ten minutes. Who cares? It's a movie/book, ya know.