1 posted on
04/05/2004 10:06:25 AM PDT by
jrherreid
To: nickcarraway
Ping!
2 posted on
04/05/2004 10:07:41 AM PDT by
jrherreid
To: jrherreid
bump
3 posted on
04/05/2004 10:08:44 AM PDT by
Tribune7
(Arlen Specter supports the International Crime Court having jurisdiction over US soldiers)
To: jrherreid
Coincidentally, I ordered the first "Left Behind" from Amazon this morning (along with Dune: The Machine Crusade).
4 posted on
04/05/2004 10:09:45 AM PDT by
The G Man
(John Kerry? America just can't afford a 9/10 President in a 9/11 world. Vote Bush-Cheney '04.)
To: All
| Rank |
Location |
Receipts |
Donors/Avg |
Freepers/Avg |
Monthlies |
| 40 |
Armed Forces - Europe |
75.00
|
1
|
75.00
|
|
|
35.00
|
3
|
Thanks for donating to Free Republic!
Move your locale up the leaderboard!
5 posted on
04/05/2004 10:10:27 AM PDT by
Support Free Republic
(I'd rather be sleeping. Let's get this over with so I can go back to sleep!)
To: jrherreid; archy; Long Cut; Jeff Head; GeronL; river rat
This is going to be a fun thread! I picked up a "Left Behind" book once. Literally: I found it on the sidewalk. It amazed me how badly written a mega best seller can be! It told me, "go forward Matt, with your novel, you don't have to be Hemingway to write a best seller!"
If anyone wants to pick a bone with me over the comparative level of writing, click to this sample chapter from my novel. It stands alone pretty well as a short story, which is why I'm linking it. It's old, so it's been edited slightly in the printed novel.
"The Raid" from Enemies Foreign and Domestic
6 posted on
04/05/2004 10:16:56 AM PDT by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: jrherreid
"These uprisings shall be crushed posthaste. As we speak, portions of our more than extravagantly outfitted fighting force will peel off to these locations to lay waste to the pretenders. They will regret their insolence only as long as they have breath, and then they will be trampled and made an example of."This is from "The Onion," right?
8 posted on
04/05/2004 10:55:18 AM PDT by
Tax-chick
(See baby pictures on the Tax-chick page!)
To: jrherreid
Premillennial dispensationalism and the belief in a Rapture event separate from the Second Coming is rejected, either explicitly or implicitly, by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox churches, and nearly every major Protestant denomination. Oh, really? Gee wiz, most Christians I know (not just those who are members of the same church) believe in a pre-tribulation rapture. I also believe that the scriptures back up the pre-trib angle.
But even if someone disagrees with this particular theology, the statement that "nearly every major Protestant denomination" rejects this view is quite false.
I bought the book on the release day. I have not had time to start reading yet, but am quite anxious to get started.
9 posted on
04/05/2004 11:18:16 AM PDT by
TheBattman
(Leadership = http://www.georgewbush.com/)
To: jrherreid
bump for later
To: jrherreid
The "Left Behind" books weren't the first Rapture novels, nor are they the last.
God willing, I'll follow up to this post in about three years.
22 posted on
04/05/2004 1:20:40 PM PDT by
tang-soo
To: jrherreid
BUMP
To: jrherreid
poor qualities for a novel about a Big Event. THE big event
33 posted on
04/05/2004 7:31:50 PM PDT by
GeronL
(Hey, I am on the internet. I have a right (cough, cough) to write stupid things.)
To: jrherreid
When I first heard about the Left Behind series, I thought it was an Al Gore biography.
38 posted on
04/05/2004 9:18:34 PM PDT by
rock58seg
(Character and integrity do count. BUSH/CHENEY 04)
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson