Left Behind [The Trilogy] : Any Good?

[Fast Learner]

There are no effects on the economy, despite the fact that all products and services that are child related are now as useful and meaningful as flint knives.

His suggestion that Buck, the reporter, meet with someone for a quiet lunch at, say, Chuck E Cheese, was priceless.

 

[Remus Lupin]

Another good trope that Slacktivist brings up is the repeated and lengthy descriptions of peoples' travel itineraries, which is only made more humorous by the fact that the plans bear no resemblance to real world geography.

 

[Steve Jung]

I started reading slacktivist a couple years ago. I liked it so much that I spent months getting caught up.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

That slacktivist blog's disection of the first book is terrific. My favorite bit and one that the blogger keeps coming back to is that all of the children have disappeared in the Rapture. Since they are considered innocents and this includes for example babies in the womb. So roughly a quarter of the population of the world has disappeared, all of the children, all of the babies.

Yet nobody is bothered by this. There are no traumatized parents, horrified and haunted by the sudden and mysterious ripping of children from their arms in an instant, disappeared, never to be seen again. There are no effects on the economy, despite the fact that all products and services that are child related are now as useful and meaningful as flint knives.

This really bothers me. I'm gonna pass on this now.

 

[Rackhir]

This really bothers me. I'm gonna pass on this now.

Which is it that bothers you? The children/babies disappearing or that it doesn't bother anyone?

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

Em, yeah, religion rules os I won't comment on Left Behind as it would be all bad

The Stand, yup, awesoem book, end is a tad odd.

A great "apocalypse" book is "Nightworld" by the author who did "The Keep", and part of that story arc.
Hm, htink vampires meet Cthulhu meets Armageddon. Very good, very scary, and gruesome bits..."No, not Daddy's eyes!"....omg, *barf!*

"Repairman Jack" is one of my fave characters, and he's in that story.

 

[Tetsubo]

Which is it that bothers you? The children/babies disappearing or that it doesn't bother anyone?

I've would see that as a continuity problem. People *should* react to that sort of thing.

 

[Rackhir]

I've would see that as a continuity problem. People *should* react to that sort of thing.

It's really just shoddy writing. The first book at least is filled with examples of this. Jerry Jenkins's, Mary Sue avatar "Buck" is a reporter who never files any stories, ignores a quarter of the world's population disappearing in favor of meetings with the new head of the UN, considers himself brave and incorruptible while agreeing to bury stories to save his own neck... It just goes on and on.

The kicker is that Jerry Jenkins lectures and sells books on how to be a great writer!

Em, yeah, religion rules os I won't comment on Left Behind as it would be all bad.

Oh, but there's so many things to criticize the LB books/movies on, without ever even touching religion.

 

[Remus Lupin]

Oh, but there's so many things to criticize the LB books/movies on, without ever even touching religion.

QFT in a BIIIIG way!

 

[Storm Raven]

It's really just shoddy writing. The first book at least is filled with examples of this. Jerry Jenkins's, Mary Sue avatar "Buck" is a reporter who never files any stories, ignores a quarter of the world's population disappearing in favor of meetings with the new head of the UN, considers himself brave and incorruptible while agreeing to bury stories to save his own neck... It just goes on and on.

More to the point, Jenkins clearly wants us to believe that "Buck" is brave and incorruptible. It isn't just that "Buck" is deluding himself about being a great crusading pure-as-the-driven-snow hard hitting reporter - Jenkins expects us to believe that he is, because he tells us this is so, over and over.

Buck is also a thirty year old virgin. For no real reason other than so he can be pure and chaste so he can court the other Mary Sue character's (LeHaye's porn star named "Captain Rayford Steele") much younger daughter Chloe. But, he is also supposed to be a worldly been through the hard knocks kind of guy, once again, because we are told so.

I won't even go into the WWF scene where he wrestles with another "investigative reporter" over who gets to interview the next Secretary-General of the UN.