The success of authors who can't write worth a DAMN, not even in terms of plot or character development, really boggles my mind. This one article is more than I'll ever need to know about the series.
You should got his "Left Behind" link on the sidebar, go all the way down to the bottom (the oldest post) and read upwards if you've got any interest at all in hilarious snarking on terrible writing and ignorant theology.
Somehow I did miss that. I will go back and read it. :) Just his review of the book 1 summary was hilarious (and helped subdue the pain of the horrid writing).
It really boggles my mind how the author could write the whole book, and then summarise it incorrectly at the start of the second book. Smacks of laziness, since he obviously didn't even REFER to the book when summarising its events.
From what I understand, the appeal isn't in it being good at all. It's like Passion of the Christ--no one watched that because they enjoyed it. They watched it because they were afraid they'd be a bad Christian if they didn't.
There are so many better Revelation books than these, anyhow.
I was abstractly referring to Stephanie Meyer's Twilight crap, too. Otherwise I would totally understand the "we must all adore it because it's Christian" mentality. Well, not really, but that type of mentality is disgustingly rampant in our society (see: women voters in 2008 swinging from Clinton to Palin).
I blame the Bible (and Bush for using it for political posturing): if you're not with us, you're against us. At face value it's obviously a false dichotemy to draw, yet so many use it without realising it (I'm sure we all have once, though most of us outgrew it by adulthood).
Come to think of it, shouldn't surprise me if a lot of the distribution *was* church-funded (Hey! Free book!). So many people might have a copy without having bought it.
The notion he runs a Christian Writer's Guild really scares me, though. Yet you couldn't criticise him because that would be unchristian, as opposed to being true to.. writing.
I got bored reading the summary - although I did find the idea of lots of people "disappearing" instantly, I lost the interest when I found out it was supposed to be to "the Rapture". Hello, bored now. Can I go? LOL! Oh - and ALL children under a certain age are innocent???? Not very realistic is he.
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Date: 2009-02-21 02:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-21 02:50 pm (UTC)Instead, I think it's probably one of the very few games I would consider pirating, just for the lulz.
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Date: 2009-02-21 05:40 pm (UTC)It really boggles my mind how the author could write the whole book, and then summarise it incorrectly at the start of the second book. Smacks of laziness, since he obviously didn't even REFER to the book when summarising its events.
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Date: 2009-02-21 05:58 pm (UTC)There are so many better Revelation books than these, anyhow.
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Date: 2009-02-21 06:53 pm (UTC)Come to think of it, shouldn't surprise me if a lot of the distribution *was* church-funded (Hey! Free book!). So many people might have a copy without having bought it.
The notion he runs a Christian Writer's Guild really scares me, though. Yet you couldn't criticise him because that would be unchristian, as opposed to being true to.. writing.
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