Left Behind - The Apocalypse

I thought they were sold as fiction?

My guess is the lecturer was on about how many of the readers drawn to the book would probably take a very fuzzy boundary between fiction and non-fiction as far as these books are concerned. And they'd also tend to be avid bush supporters on the US religious right.
Am i right there Ulrich?

The books have sold rather well apparently, and there has even been a movie (which predicably, was a cinema flop, but a hit on video and DVD).

The basic premise of the series is that a new UN Secetary-General, who's surname happens to be Carpathia (as in the mountains, as in Transylvania, as in home of Dracula, a coincidence surely), promises to bring peace and prosperity to a troubled and choatic world. Only, actualy, he is the anti-christ (geez, you'd never see that one coming).
Cue for a dramatic struggle between good (god-fearing christians), and bad (the UN and Very Bad things�), and a whole bunch of spin-offs. Oh, and somewhere along the line, the Rapture presumably happens.

You can already see how this would appeal to certain types of readers.

Anyways, you can read up some on the series here, as well as find details on the individual books in the series.


Edited by Cywr - 27-Aug-2006 at 20:58

Oh Joy! There is even a video game - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Behind:_Eternal_Forces



Edit: Reading more, it seems almost cynical that some of the later movies even had special church theatrical viewings, with movies pretty much being promoted at particular religious audiences, helped on by their respective institutions.
And they say the Dutch pillorisation model was wierd and divisive.




Edited by Cywr - 27-Aug-2006 at 21:12

Originally posted by Cywr Oh Joy! There is even a video game - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Behind:_Eternal_Forces Edit: Reading more, it seems almost cynical that some of the later movies even had special church theatrical viewings, with movies pretty much being promoted at particular religious audiences, helped on by their respective institutions. And they say the Dutch pillorisation model was wierd and divisive.

Yes, I remember a thread about that, http://www.allempires.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12442

You sure you don't have some bias, Richard XIII, because the anti-Christ is Romanian? Wait, I figured it out. The only Romanian person that could hate the rapture is the anti-Christ! I am telling my local evangelical right-wing pastor. Anyways, the Da Vinci Code was a great book, it combined fact with fiction, this book seems to just have fiction to it that is presented as fact.