Tribulation Force: The Continuing Drama of Those Left Behind (Left Behind, Book 2)

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I LOVE this book. This takes us through the lives of the few people that gather after the rapture to form a small church, and plan for the next se... (show more)

I LOVE this book. This takes us through the lives of the few people that gather after the rapture to form a small church, and plan for the next seven years, and the expected rising of the anit-christ, which they discover who that is in this book. And those that are giving their lives to Christ and growing into leader/teaching positions in the church,, this book is filled with so much!! My favorite thing tho,, is the love that blooms between two young people of the Tribulation Force. I listened to the unabridged version of this book on my ipod. I've never really been much for reading, so audio books are right up my alley. The narrator is great, and each character is recognizable. I am looking forward to hearing what happens in the next book. (show less)

 

 

by Amanda Postma

No, it's a flop!

While slightly better written than the first book (which is like saying steer manure is slightly better smelling than cow manure), this second help... (show more)

While slightly better written than the first book (which is like saying steer manure is slightly better smelling than cow manure), this second helping of the "Left Behind" series suffers even more from lack of storytelling ability and imagination. The first 1/3 - 1/2 of the book is mostly taken up with an insipid budding romance fraught with problems of mistaken identity and mixed signals that seems like it was lifted straight out of any bad sit-com you can name. And once that is finally resolved, we are treated to a scene of synchronized cookie eating that sounds like some bit of smarm from a tween romance or "Sweet Valley High" book. The rest of the book is about on the same par as we are treated to such clever witicisms as the old "I'm sorry." "Don't apologize!" "Sorry." and a reporter saying "...a lie announcement. I mean live announcement" at the appropriate time. It isn't until the last 1/4 - 1/3 of the book than anything finally happens, and even that is tepid and unimaginative. How evil can the Anti-Christ really be if all he is capable of is a couple of murders, stealing an airplane, a few Jedi mind tricks, and getting his secretary to send a woman flowers and candy in some lame attempt to get the woman's father to leave town to protect his daughter from some "dangerous" stalker? And how can one of the two "witnesses" call someone on the phone if they never leave the Wailinig Wall? Then, at the end of the book, the author's conveniently skip over an entire 18 months they, obviously, don't feel capable of coming up with enough to write about just so they can get to the part where they can start writing about the beginning of the "Judgements" and the main character getting married to a woman who was only mentioned once before and that we never met before he asked her to marry him. This book left me wondering if there was some way I could sue the two authors for insulting my intelligence. (show less)

 

 

by Timothy A. Corder

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  If you are of a pre-tribulation mindset in the area of the rapture, you will find these books to be engaging and intriguing.

  If you are of a post-tribulation inclination, than you will find these books extraordinarily hard to swallow.

  I lean more post tribulation. I'll be the first in line to admit I'm wrond should the rapture occur pre-trib.

  The other issue that I have with the books is that some christians have accepted them as holy writ. This is fiction folks. In fact one b... (show more)

  If you are of a pre-tribulation mindset in the area of the rapture, you will find these books to be engaging and intriguing.

  If you are of a post-tribulation inclination, than you will find these books extraordinarily hard to swallow.

  I lean more post tribulation. I'll be the first in line to admit I'm wrond should the rapture occur pre-trib.

  The other issue that I have with the books is that some christians have accepted them as holy writ. This is fiction folks. In fact one book in this series is based on approximately 4 verses in Revelation. Let's just say that those 4 verses contained little that the book did.

  I have to admit that I didn't make it to the end of the series. I kept expecting it to end and another intermediate book would be published. I was beginning to fear that Jesus might actually come back before the series was completed. (show less)

   

   

  by Amanda Jean Newkirk on Mar 30, 2009 at 11:54AM

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  A very intriguing story. It has it's slow parts, but, quickly gains momentum chapter after chapter. I've read some negative reveiws on this story, because religion is entwined with the plot, however, people who intend to read this book and its following ones in the series, have to remember a very important thing, it is a work of fiction and is not meant to be taken as fact. I know if anything, there is sveral times I placed the book down and thought about the different religions in the wor... (show more)

  A very intriguing story. It has it's slow parts, but, quickly gains momentum chapter after chapter. I've read some negative reveiws on this story, because religion is entwined with the plot, however, people who intend to read this book and its following ones in the series, have to remember a very important thing, it is a work of fiction and is not meant to be taken as fact. I know if anything, there is sveral times I placed the book down and thought about the different religions in the world, as well as my own. In fact, it has awoken feelings about my own religion and how I should become more educated about it. (show less)

   

   

  by Les Krysak on Sep 24, 2009 at 03:29PM

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