I just saw a display of a new novel “co-written” by LaHaye and some other hack. Titled Babylon Rising it’s the “breathtaking and exciting” story of an archeaologist who discovers some sort of “significant” find that signals a countdown to the end of the world. The jacket blurb says it is the first of a new(shiver) series, and will deal with prophecies that were not included in Left Behind.
Sounds like LaHaye is worried his LB cash cow is about milked dry, even though the last LB title isn’t out yet. I wonder if this series will have the same…ummm…quality the first one did?
I don’t know tracer. All I read was the jacket, then I put the book down. I was concerned someone I knew might see me looking at it and think I liked it!
I OPed a thread at The Pizza Parlour to get some idea of the series, and got a very mixed review. What most said was that it okay a best as far as semi-entertaining fiction, but that the theology behind them was like an off center fundie idea, and fairly offensive to some.
10 points to whoever posts the username of someone from here who liked them. Pretty much told me what I needed to know about them…
OK, don’t post the names of guesses. But, if you’ve been here long enough, you know of whom I may or may not be speaking.
Oh, and maybe I should toss in The Joy of Sex, a book by David Icke, The Turner Diaries, and Dianetics or whatever you call the $cientology religious tome.
Yeah!
Tim LaHaye doesn’t actually write the Left Behind series. He studies the scriptures and gives the notes to Jerry Jenkins, who actually comes up with the storylines and writes the book.
So where does his part come in, then, SnoopyFan? The babble that’s int he left-behind doesn’t seem to be recognizably scriptural. But then again, for a book that’s based on a concept that’s based on the twisting of one passage that’s been taken out of context and contradicts everything else int he Bible in the sense that it’s displayed; I guess that it’s alright. Eh…whatever…
