LEFT BEHIND- last vol & spinoffs

I glanced at LB XII- Glorious Appearing in the bookstore (which is what I’ve done with most of the series)- had lotsa expected trite & hackneyed scenes, some also expected touching scenes (I do after all believe in JC coming back to defeat Evil) & an interesting couple of profound scenes (mainly having to do with Lucifer departing from Nicolae’s carcass). So anyone here wanna admit to reading it & give a review?

Also, there are two authorized non-LaHaye/Jenkins-authored spinoffs- the military/technothriller Apocalypse Dawn series & the political intrigue End of State series? Also- any reviews? From my cursory glances, they didn’t grab me but at least seemed better written than the main LB books.

Also, anyone wanna talk about LB-The Kids series?

Ok, I checked it out of the library and read it, only because I’ve managed to get through the rest of the series.

The short review: Don’t bother.
Longer: really, don’t bother with this book. It’s the same as the rest of the books in the series, basically. This one tries to have more plot, but the problem is that they’ve made it pretty clear how the series ends - Jesus comes back - that there are no real shockers going on.

Buck is dead as of the end of the last book, Rayford is alive, barely. But luckily, they find him (some sort of ATV accident or something) and manage to revive him. Then, of course, as events clump forward toward the inevitable, everyone who’s sick or injured in Petra (where a lot of the believers have clumped together and are protected by God) is suddenly healed.

So Rayford goes sneaking off to where the GC forces are, ends up in the same room as Nicolae (Rayford’s been disguised as a black guy, so OF COURSE Nicolae doesn’t recognize him). He then sees the devil unpossessing Nicolae, speaking to Nick, then repossessing him. Blah, blah blah…it goes on like that.

Ooops…Jesus is back! Naturally, he’s got white hair and such - I don’t remember if the describe him as having blue eyes, but it wouldn’t surprise me much. From there on out, it’s lots of people talking about how wonderful Jesus is. Raford’s first wife and son are there (if you don’t remember, they were raptured back in the first book). And his second wife’s there too. But that doesn’t matter, because it sounds like sex is nonexistent after Jesus comes back.

Basically, it’s bad. I wouldn’t even bother reading it - only if you feel obligated (that was me) from having made it through the others. Don’t buy it though. You can probably get through it in the bookstore in a couple of hours. Or get it from the library.

But what I want to know is, do Ross and Rachel wind up together?

I did think the Lucifer-depossessing/Nicholae-deflating scenes were kinda inventive, one of the few things I’d like to see a movie version of this for. Also, as glurgey as they were, JC’s face-to-faces with the believers could be kinda touching. And I also like the meeting of Raymond’s two Immortalized wives (the first raptured, the second martyred & resurrected). Btw, of course since they are in Glorified form, sex is out, but since Raymond will live through the Millenium as a normal immortal (as opposed to Glorified Immortal), he could well marry & father kids again.

So he really had a scene in blackface, huh? L

Yeah, Jesus was described with blue eyes.

I totally hated His LOOONG Bible-Speeches.

SO have you tried the spinoffs?

[nitpick] Actually, that was Mac. [/nitpick]

Also, there are supposed to be two more books, a prequel and a sequel.

Wait wait, can we get confirmation that the final book of the left behind series describes Jesus as having blue eyes?

Also, I’m curious to know what Nicolai is like when the devil’s not in him. Anyone care to describe?

-FrL

Also, I’m curious to know what Nicolai is like when the devil’s not in him.

Probably the same as he was before the devil possessed him totally after he got shot in the head.

So does this mean that Kirk Cameron isn’t going to star in Left Behind III: Superhero Christians On Patrol ?

Frylock- essentially, de-posessed Nicholae is gaunt & shrivelled & almost resembles a corpse that has been slowly dessicating in the time since Nicolae was “killed”

Soo…

Jesus… blue eyes? Yes/no?

-FrL