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Title: Mark: The Beast Rules the World (Left Behind, 8) by Tim Lahaye, Tim F. LaHaye, Frank Muller, Jerry B. Jenkins ISBN: 0-8423-3231-6 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: 14 November, 2000 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 2 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.43 (251 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: The realism has been lost
Comment: Allow me to clarify: I know that Lahaye's work is fiction. I wonder, however, whether Jenkins's overt sensationalism--increasingly evident as the series progresses--is indeed essential to his portrayal of the Apocalypse. The groundbreaking step in the original Left Behind book, in my opinion, was its careful realism. The authors cleverly concocted a debatably realistic scene. Public response to the Lord's Rapture was believable, and the time was ripe, as Jenkins contends, for the emergence of a new public leader.
In the second, third and fourth installments, however, things quickly went south. That so many people would espouse a "religion" adherent to the doctrine "We are God" is patently absurd, and the narrator's depiction of a top public official recounting on national television his "resurrection" at the hands of Carpathia is simply "out of this world." Jenkins, it seemed, had succumbed to the sensationalism--his overly evil portrayals of Carpathia, his black-and-white characters, his "dramatic" religious conversion accounts--the overbearing religious doctrine plaguing so many similar books.
Pat Robertson's "End of an Age" is a case in point. The world suddenly comes down to devil worship vs. Christianity, huh? I don't think so.
As far as "The Mark" is concerned, this overriding trend has only worsened. "The Indwelling" was bad enough; this book has now completely left the realm of reality. Page after page of Carpathia praying to Lucifer, tribulation saints bravely converting the lost, Global Community troops becoming ever more resolute in their opposition to Christianity has simply grown tiring. No thinking person would even follow a leader so overtly inhumane. Evil antichrists are easy; I want a devious one--a tricky man so cleverly political I wonder whether I wouldn't follow him myself. And that, Mr. Jenkins and Mr. Lahaye, you have not provided.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Mark
Comment: This book starts a liitle slow for those who have read the previous seven books. There is alot of background information given on the characters from the previous books. Be patient! Don't quit reading this one!! After they finish with these things, things really start to move about half way through the book. Also, alot of time is spent on what is going on with one of the undercover TribForce characters in the beginning. Hang on folks because this book does start moving and moving great! I had a little bit of a hard time sticking with it but I am glad I did. As usual when you get to the end of the book the infamous question and statement comes up for the readers of this series, "When will the next book come out? I want more!"
Rating: 1
Summary: a book of fiction that too many people take as truth!
Comment: It absolutely amazes me that so many people believe what is written in these books, especially this one! If you want to know about the truth about the end of times, read the Bible, it has it all there, with bits and pieces of the information scattered throughout the Bible. When this book showed the man getting the Mark of the Beast EVEN though he was a Christian and that he would still be saved, that was the biggest eye-opener of all that this book was full of lies. The Bible says that ANYONE who receives the mark will not get to heaven. You are either for God through Jesus OR you are for Satan, there is no compromising. You cannot deny your belief in Jesus and expect to get to heaven. These are dangerous books for Christians to read because they are full of hidden agendas. I cannot recommend even as a book of fiction!
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Title: The Remnant: On the Brink of Armageddon (Left Behind, 10) by Tim F. Lahaye, Jerry B. Jenkins ISBN: 0842332308 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Apollyon: The Destroyer Is Unleashed (Left Behind No. 5) by Tim Lahaye, Jerry B. Jenkins ISBN: 0842329269 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Armageddon: The Cosmic Battle of the Ages (Left Behind #11) by Tim F. LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins ISBN: 0842332340 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: 08 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Soul Harvest: The World Takes Sides (Left Behind No. 4) by Tim Lahaye, Jerry B. Jenkins ISBN: 0842329250 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Nicolae: The Rise of Antichrist (Left Behind No. 3) by Tim F. Lahaye, Tim F. LaHaye ISBN: 0842329242 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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