Has Anyone Read the Left Behind Series?

[catman]

We discovered this series a few years ago and have read all of the books. Anyone else?

[hochspeyer]

I'm still trying to get through the second volume!

[The Unknown Gomer]

Read it from start to finish. Started it when it first came out and got each book from the library as it was released. Seemed like it took them forever to get to the last book.

'Course, they DID tend to get a little wordy in a few of them, when the entire book spanned not much more than a couple of days.

[faithingod]

read it multiple times now! love it!

[SueQ]

I read all of them from start to finish...some of them did get slow but overall it was pretty good. Sometimes I would think...oh, cool, I can't wait to see that, but then remembered I won't be here to see it......never finished the last one because after Jesus came back, it was over for me..."OK, He's here...everything's good now....."....knew how it would end....

[clemsontigers23]

There's no way I could read all of them because there's so many, but I have read the first and really liked it.

[SueQ]

Hey Clem...once you finish one, it's hard not to want to read the next one...at least for me....I saved all my copies of the series but not sure if I want to keep them....

[RevZeek]

Your local library probably has them on CD so you can listen to them if they're a bit too wordy for you.

[mat1583]

I got through about 2/3'ds the way through and got to the point where I actually had to wait for the next book to come out. When that happened I forgot to pick back up on it till much later, when i had forgotten some of the plot/characters. I never finished it, but I enjoyed the read when I was reading them.

And of course, you should know that this should be considered fiction only, not reference material.

-washboard

[clemsontigers23]

Your local library probably has them on CD so you can listen to them if they're a bit too wordy for you.

Probably. I've read passages from the last book where Jesus came back and was rewarding people like Moses and Noah, and then where the people were swallowed up by the pit. Most everything seems pretty Biblical, though I'm not sure I believe in the pre-tribulation rapture.

Hopefully one day I'll get around to doing it.

[SueQ]

Guess I'll have to go back and finish the last book.....

[clemsontigers23]

Guess I'll have to go back and finish the last book.....

For me it kind of painted a picture of what it MIGHT look like when Jesus comes back and we're all standing before Him. It's very surreal and makes you even more excited about His return. :D

[catman]

The series is available on CD from Amazon.com and Tyndale.com, I believe. I'm still waiting for the last volume -- Kingdom Come to come out on CDs so I can listen to it on my daily commute (about 30 minutes one way).
I do have the book for my wife to read though. Maybe I'll have to break down and read it myself.

[SueQ]

Oh wait....I don't have Kingdom Come......have to finish Glorius Appearing and then read KC.....

[Jake]

I was a bit young when the series started, and I didn't get into them until a little bit after the 12th book came out. By the time I read the first dozen, KC was about a week from being released, so I bought it the day it came out and finished the series.

I really enjoyed the series, but I think it's important to keep it in prospective. I know several people who believe that the rapture and the days that follow will unfold just as LaHaye and Jenkins say in these books, when that may not be the case.

[SueQ]

True....while we have historical fiction as a genre, shall we call this series "prophetic fiction"? I can already hear some say it is all fiction....:rolleyes:

[pamcharlie]

I have only read the first two and even though i am aware as christian that my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is returning for me I found the books too long and not really my "cup of green tea" but i really liked the suspense of the storyline and all the plot and i have watched the tribulation force movie on the christian channel we have here in new zealand and i have also watched left behind on youtube.

[catman]

I understand the 4th film is in production. I hope the screenwriters' strike isn't causing a hold up.

[pamcharlie]

Yes i agree with you about the writer's strike it is really messing things up in hollywood

[Cotton]

Definitely! It is my favourite series, I just really like the fact that it is so Biblically correct.

[Jason]

I just really like the fact that it is so Biblically correct.

Not really.

[Howlin' Wolf]

these books are garbage. its a sad sign of the church that they're so popular.

[lilmikey]

these books are garbage. its a sad sign of the church that they're so popular.

I have not read them because I have some major docternal differences with them. That does not mean that I will never read them. I just might out of a desire to read a good FICTION series and not actually believing in any of that garbage.

Kinda like the mind set that I had when I read the Da VINCI CODE. It was pretty good fiction. But the "supposed facts were garbage and unbiblical. But it was still a good read

[ausgirl]

I've read them all and really enjoyed them all - though some of the later ones got a bit tedious and without doubt there are some questionable discrepencies.
I read them as works of fiction with a loose biblical basis - whether they are scripturally correct, I am not particularly fussed, I get my scriptural stuff from the scripture!!