Left Behind?

[connectadot18]

Just Curious...

what do you all think of the Left Behind Series (books and Movies)??

 

[MidnightCandel777]

Good stuff. Even if one does not agree with the view in which the end is portrayed, the book series is still an excellent piece of storytelling. The characters and their respective personalities are believeable and act accordingly to given circumstances.

The movies are a diffrent situation altogether, I'm afraid. The first movie did a good job of, more or less, following the story. The second was a bit too liberal in the way the story was told, seeing that a few details of the story were changed, not to mention that the last one-quarter of the book was cut out. (The details in which were crucial to the story)
The third movie was sucessful in alienating 80% of the existing storyine as well as emphesising a character which doesn't even take up twenty pages of dialouge in the original story.

 

[shadistarr]

I loved reading the books in High School... They're good for summer zone out reading. They also helped me understand a perspective of Revelations, not to say that I fully agree with the timeline and what not.

 

[Kvikklunsj]

I don't like it. I've read several of the books and disagree with many of the assumptions the series makes. I know it's fiction, but it seems a lot of readers get way too into it and take the theology as fact when it's really not very clear-cut at all. On top of that, the books seem to excuse selfishness and hypocritical actions and basically celebrate the deaths of non-christians. It only perpetuates the typical evangelical "us vs. them" idea, which I find disgusting.
One of my favorite blogs, which has a column going through the book bit by bit: http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/left_behind/index.html

 

[JCmyFriend]

The movies are great. I find the books a little hard to get into.

 

[redMountian]

Not what I'd normally read. Most of the theology is just as fictional as the rest of the story.

 

[Hediru]

Definitely a good thriller for reading. Not sure about some of the theology, but it certainly makes me look at the Book of Revelation and Christ's return and end times differently. After reading them, I am even more certain than ever that we're in the end times.

 

[Gam3rG1rl4Chr1st]

Yeah, what you gotta remember when reading those books is.........

1. They're fiction.
2. They're one person's (or two because there are two authors named) view on the end times.

That said.......enjoy them! I loved the books. I read all of them and I'm so glad I did. Fascinating story. Especially the very last book. I don't usually get emotional while reading books but I got choked up quite a bit in the last one and had goosebumps through the whole thing. Just imagining Christ coming back in all His glory.

The movies I'm not too fond of. The first one was pretty good. Second one wasn't. I haven't watched any more. Are there even any more out?

Anyways, books are sweet. Definitely check those out.

 

[Kol]

Cheezy, poorly made, and not worth my time. Plus the movies run on TBN, so...

 

[Cygnus]

Never read the books or seen the films...never plan to either.

 

[Margim]

Never read the books or seen the films...never plan to either.

Ditto. I'd elaborate on my views, but they don't like it on these forums when words get too nasty

 

[plum]

I read a few of them when they came out. they weren't terribly written (I've read SO much worse) but I just don't like them in general. I don't like the business, the money, the endless spin-offs, the theology, the authority people give those authors on the subject, the confusing saga... ah well. to each his or her own...

 

[Paddington]

Haven't seen the movies, loved the books.

 

[Hediru]

I do agree that the spin-offs are overkill. I read the entire original series because I got into the story. But I don't think I'll read them again, and I have no interest in the prequel series.

 

[mina]

I tried to read the first book and the writing wasn't really that great. It did not pull me into the story. I felt like i was reading a really long tract. If someone likes them or it brings them to a deeper relationship with God- then great! but they weren't for me.

 

[handmaiden97]

their ok....My brother and I read a few of them back when I was in highschool and he in grade school (we read the versiont hey made for kids). They were alright, thought I did not fully agree with them theologically and so never finisched the series....I doubt he did either for he prefered hearing them read to actually reading them himself

 

[arunma]

I didn't read Left Behind, but I have read "Are We In the End Times," by the Left Behind authors, in which they explain their eschatological views. Doesn't seem very theologically solid to me.

 

[Lessien]

I read the first and part of the second, and they were lame. Bad writing, theologically unsound events, scary plot.

 

[ListenerFriendly]

The problem I have with them is that they put across a "wishy-washy" theology that they present as fact. While it is fiction, the danger is that people accept someones "fictional prphecy" as fact. I do like the fact that they bring up discussion concerning the End of Times, but the Bible hardly, in my opinion, can even support their views on prphecy. From what I've seen, it was poorly written fiction as well. And I hardly appreciate the way the authors "attack" anyone who disagrees with their view. I won't attack them, I just don't like them calling anyone who disagrees as "racist" It doesn't seem right in my mind.
Enough said, don't take offense Just my opinions.

ROCK ON

 

[Lessien]

Woah...wait a sec....Who calls people who disagree with them racist? The authors? Why?