Soul Harvest

Im not going to give away any spoilers here but if youve read the previous books, you know who Im talking about! Or at least one of the people Im talking about- lol! This isnt a spoiler, but I still dont trust Hattie Durham at all. And her sobbing revelation to Buck is part of my suspicion, she says shes done horrible things but wont say what, Im afraid I may know what but I wont say here lol! Cant wait to start the next one!

I absolutely love the Left Behind Series. I’m behind on the times as far as reading it goes, though my mom used to have the whole series and I just never got around to borrowing them. I’ve read almost all of the books now. I’m on Kingdom Come and I only have one of the books that was written after the series. Still need to get the other two. I really like how the authors write the stories and it’s very riveting. They write a lot based on information they’ve deciphered in the Bible and one of the characters often quotes, more in some books than others, where they’re gathering their own ideas about what’s going to happen. They pick quotes from the Bible and more or less make them into plain English for other characters who don’t really understand. It’s very enlightening.

Saturday, November 22, 2008
What I’m reading

Have you heard of the Left Behind series? Silly question. Of course you have. You’re reading about it right now.

I’ve finally decided I’d read it and “kindled” the book. Mistake. I probably should have taken it out of the library. Think about this. There are twelve-thirteen? books in the series. Each one costs between 5 and 10 dollar a piece. Figuring the usual $10 kindle price, if i were to buy twelve of these, it would (will) run me $120

For a book. That isn’t a masterpiece or a piece of antiquity. So what’s the draw for people to lay aside their hard-earned and possibly disappearing cash?

It’s not that well written. (Sorry Timothy LaHaye) It’s simplistic and the characters are not well developed. Plus, redundancies! Don’t even get me started.
If they cut all the repetition, they’d probably have a long “The Stand” type novel.

But, the story about the end of times, the coming of the Anti-Christ and the Tribulation; and, it has me hooked.

So my point? Despite all it’s deficiencies, it’s a darned good story. And, by golly, it’s brought my attention back to my bible. (even if it is to Revelations)

A DARN GOOD STORY It’s the key every time.

Cheers

Patricia A. Guthrie
In the Arms of the Enemy 2007
Waterlilies Over My Grave 2008

Soul Harvest is a great take on those left behind getting God’s 2nd chance at salvation. LaHaye and Jenkins did an excellent characterization take on all the hero’s and villain. The only part of the series that I do not like is ability of the authors to go from one translation to another. I appreciated that when they were talking about “the two witnesses” they used the KJV translation. When quoting other versions I found many verses missing. As a fiction novel they did real well at bringing the horrors to life, I don’t believe that there truly is a way to describe what the “Left Behind” will face and LaHaye and Jenkins had a good take on the matter. I recommend this series to everyone.

I was a big fan of horror novels and movies and didn’t think religious novels could be very interesting, especially ones with a fundamentalist message. But this liberal is eating dirt and buying one after another. Soul Harvest is about the conversion of millions after the Rapture. A converted rabbi and scholar is beaming lessons from a hidden computer which the frustrated Antichrist can’t find. There is all sorts of excitement as the Christians try to avoid the forces of the Global Community. I don’t want to give too much away. Just start reading with the first prequel, The Rising: The Antichrist is Born or with the first book in the series, Left Behind: A Novel of Earth’s Last Days.

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