Rating  - Great Idea, Bad writing
Like many others I became totally fascinated and hooked into the series because it simplifies the prophecies of the end times in a storyteller fashion. However, about half way through the series I began to get annoyed with the sloppy writing, but continued on until I started reading Desecration. There is no excuse for educated people to write a book as poorly as this. I could not keep up with the pages and pages of unnecessary dialogue and finally just put it down. Well I know the outcome of the story anyway! The series is a great idea. I just wish the authors could have told the story in fewer books and with some sense of literary merit.
Rating  - My favorite (so far) in the LB series
Those who say that this series is starting to drag out are somewhat correct. Even I tend to skim a little bit. But I really liked this book, unlike the others I feel that it had more action to it and was almost like the "climax" book in the series. The anti-Christ really starts to crack down in this one, and I think that is what held my interest. In his desperate attempts to curb criticism and build his following, Nicolae only succeeds in making even his devout followers doubt him. And this only provides the background for multiple suspense and action scenes that involve the Trib Force as they work against him. When I was done I said "Wow. That was a good book." And it's hard to say that with all the trash out there.
Rating - Continuing to be a great series
I'm a little behind in reading this series so I can't wait to get caught up. Desecration was another great addition to the books and the excitement going on in the lives of the Tribulation members. I personally like this series because Revelations (the book in the Bible that this series is based off of) is too complex for me to understand. Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins do a great job at simplifying the story and telling it in modern day form! Recommended to anyone!!!!
Rating  - We're off to see the Wizard...
The Left Behind series is really, really weird. Jerry Springer weird. Angelina and Billy Bob weird. Freak Show weird. It is amazing to me that a bunch of clean living Christians, who would eschew any secular freakishness, read these books and don't see anything strange about the world these books create.
In short, this neverending series of books detail -- in slow, repetitive detail-- a literalized version of the End Times. The stories are based on writings in the book of Revelation, that purport that the end of the world will occur when Jesus comes to snatch up the true believers, and a period of seven years of tribulation will afflict the non-believers (those "Left Behind")before He comes again to establish New Jerusalem on earth, which is the the end of life as we know it. Awful things happen to non-believers in these books. Bloody, violent things that rival the kind of gory movie scenes that Christians don't let their kids see. The final judgment is all based on the contents of people's heads -- if you believe in Jesus, you're spared, if you don't, you suffer. Yikes -- never has "thought police-ing" been more vividly depicted.
Now, in reality, the Book of Revelation was written 100 years after the death of Jesus, and was written by persecuted Christians. It is not hard to understand why early Christians, who were seeing their comrades slaughtered, would imagine this kind of revenge fantasy, where Jesus comes back to avenge all they've been put through. However, one of the problems with the End Times scenario is that the philosophy of Jesus does "a 180" between the Gospels and the Book of Revelation. The man who, in the Gospels, was called "the prince of peace", who scolded those who were vengence minded ("Cast the first stone") and who taught of message of love is suddenly transformed into a blood thirsty meglomaniac. Why would this be?
It seems obvious to me that the Left Behind series is nothing but the reflection of a meglomaniacal mind, found in the body Tim LaHaye. This man, who is a multimillionaire as a result of peddling this fear-based nonsense, has envisioned a world where anyone who opposes his literal interpretation of the Scriptures is going to suffer horrible, horrible things. They won't just lose their lives in violent circumstances, but they will lose their souls as well. And he doesn't limit his violent imaginings just to non-believers. In fact, any Christian denomination that he doesn't like, esp Catholics, are suffering in these pages as well. LaHaye may think he believes in God, but it seems more likely that he thinks he is God.
This is scary stuff. If these books didn't hide behind the veil of being "religious" they probably wouldn't be published. They envision of world that resembles the worst of Nazi Germany. Instead of reading this trash, I wish people would read "The Wizard of Oz" and learn something about putting faith in "the man behind the curtain." Tim LaHaye is that man, and he is selling dangerous nonsense.
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