Subject: Re: Left Behind - the ending

From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgeniusNOSPUM.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 31, 2004

Modemac <modemac@modemac.com> wrote:
> About ten to twelve years ago, I slogged my way through the overlong,
> overbearing "Mission Earth" series by You-Know-Who. Ten books that
> dragged on and on and on, before finally blundering to a finish. My
> brain never did recover from that trauma.
>
> Now it seems that the Christian equivalent of "Mission Earth" has
> reached its conclusion. The twelfth and allegedly final book of the
> "Left Behind" series, entitled "Glorious Appearing: The End of Days,"
> has been released to bookstores. Unlike "Mission Earth," this series
> has been a genuine bestseller. Of course, that doesn't necessarily
> mean that it's good.
>
> But unlike my life of twelve years ago, I haven't had the time to work
> my way through a twelve-volume series that, supposedly, becomes more
> and more tedious until by the end it consists of 25% plot and 75% End
> Times prosleytizing.
>
> Has anyone else dared to meet the challenge of "Left Behind?" It
> surely can't be any worse than the two movies based on the first two
> books of the series...can it?

That second movie, "Tribulation Force," is so poorly made that even
though I paid $5 for the DVD in the Walmart cut-out bin, and even
though I COLLECT end of the world movies, Wei and I were unable to sit
through more than 10 minutes of it. It was just too embarrassingly Pink
to even watch as a potential source of inadvertent bulldada.

--
4th Stangian Orthodox MegaFisTemple Lodge of the Wrath of Dobbs Yeti,
Resurrected (Rev. Ivan Stang, prop.)
PRABOB

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From: El Queso <the_cheese_23nospam@yahoo.com>

Modemac wrote:
> About ten to twelve years ago, I slogged my way through the overlong,
> overbearing "Mission Earth" series by You-Know-Who. Ten books that
> dragged on and on and on, before finally blundering to a finish. My
> brain never did recover from that trauma.
>
> Now it seems that the Christian equivalent of "Mission Earth" has
> reached its conclusion. The twelfth and allegedly final book of the
> "Left Behind" series, entitled "Glorious Appearing: The End of Days,"
> has been released to bookstores. Unlike "Mission Earth," this series
> has been a genuine bestseller. Of course, that doesn't necessarily
> mean that it's good.
>
> But unlike my life of twelve years ago, I haven't had the time to work
> my way through a twelve-volume series that, supposedly, becomes more
> and more tedious until by the end it consists of 25% plot and 75% End
> Times prosleytizing.
>
> Has anyone else dared to meet the challenge of "Left Behind?" It
> surely can't be any worse than the two movies based on the first two
> books of the series...can it?

I read them all and I was shocked. The last 25 pages of volume 12 is an
utter refutation of Christianity, and Satan wins the war for heaven.
Talk about your sudden twist! I've heard that "Left Behind" movie
producer, Kirk Cameron is hanging out with the daughter of Anton LeVay
now - and the author has killed himself in a bizarre ritual.
Queso

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From: nenslo <nenslo@yahoox.com>

Modemac wrote:
>
> About ten to twelve years ago, I slogged my way through the overlong,
> overbearing "Mission Earth" series by You-Know-Who. Ten books that
> dragged on and on and on, before finally blundering to a finish. My
> brain never did recover from that trauma.

Volume one of that series is the only book which I have deliberately
thrown in the trash, ever, in my entire life.

> Has anyone else dared to meet the challenge of "Left Behind?" It
> surely can't be any worse than the two movies based on the first two
> books of the series...can it?

I tried to read the first volume of this series, since
tribulation/rapture novels are kind of a thing with me, as some of you
may recall, and it seemed to me to be one of the least interesting.
Which is why it had to be popular. Whereas Ernest Angley's "Raptured"
is the most interesting of the genre which I have read, and therefore
one of the least known.

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