April 04, 2007

Left Behind? Not this book series. Before the first installment in Tim LaHaye's and Jerry B. Jenkins' modern-day stories based on the Book of Revelation appeared in 1995, Christian fiction was typically tucked away in Christian bookstores. Now, 43 million books later, the Left Behind titles have paved the way for these books and others like them to be sold in chain outlets, discount stores and big box retailers.
posted by HawthorneWingo 17 years ago
  • Previous thread on the Left Behind: Eternal Forces video game. Gamespot gives it 3.4 out of 10...
  • To be pointlessly competitive put it in context, the first six Harry Potter books apparently sold 325 million copies.
  • Ah yes, but JK Rowling is in league with Satan.
  • Christians read books? Who knew?
  • In the beginning was the Word file
  • Christians read books? Read, ban, burn - it's all good.
  • I know how the story ends.
  • My local grocery store has a rack full of 'em in prime location where that's the only thing to look at while you're waiting for the ladies' restroom.
  • Left Behind, indeed.
  • waiting for the ladies' restroom. "Reading salon", if you please.
  • "Left behind" sounds very half-assed.
  • I've pretty much quit buying books at the bookstore, because I keep getting tricked into buying christian horror books. The back sounds interesting, and nothing anywhere on the cover tells you that it's christian horror. But then you read it, and you get the most horribly contrived plot, and of course all the sinners (ie, people who say "damn", or who kiss the cheek of their spouse in public) get killed by the monster (the monster is always some liberal ideal gone bad, like evil monkey clones, or abortion zombies, or whatever), and the climatic finish is where the main characters pray to Jesus to make the monster go away. HELLO!!! DEUS EX MACHINA YOU STUPID WRITER!!! You can't get anymore deusy ex machiny than these books do, it's impossible. I wish I could describe how powerful the suck is in these books. One I read was about bigfoot. I think it was supposed to be christian scifi. Wrap your head around that.
  • You better be makin' that shit up, Mr. Knickerbocker. goes and googles. Oh.
  • I would totally read about abortion zombies. Only thing that can kill 'em is modified vacuum cleaners.
  • Only thing that can kill 'em is modified vacuum cleaners. No. Prayer. That's it. Only praying is allowed. Well, guns are allowed, but only prayer is allowed for the final scene. One really weird one had boston liberals being attacked by evil magic rednecks, and they had to pray to Jesus to kill the rednecks. (The message was supposed to be that liberals are really anti-gun control when you put them up against something they fear, like rednecks. And that it's never too late to turn to Jesus, even after being liberal your whole life, and even having an abortion.) Thanks to Orococo's link to Amazon, I can remember the author's name: Frank Peretti. I don't remember the title though. But stay away from anything by that fucker.
  • Peretti's a special kind of suck. I read This Present Darkness when I was a teenager. It, ah...it wasn't good.
  • How could this Peretti person screw up evil magic rednecks? That sounds completely awesome. The Hill Have Eyes awesome. Trailer park fu awesome. I am saddened.
  • /me assures goetter that the Friday premiere of Grindhouse will not disappoint
  • Ugh. Feh! Bah!
  • Dude. Rose McGowan. Hot pants. Machine gun leg. Pus-squirting zombies. This movie is everything that movies were intended to be. Want to see again.
  • I didn't know anything about Grindhouse, so I looked it up. (wikipedia per usual) Grindhouse split controversy During the 2007 Berlin Film Festival, Glen Basner, responsible for international releases for The Weinstein Company, made clear that the film would be split in two in non-English speaking countries. The films would be called Grindhouse: Planet Terror and Grindhouse: Death Proof, and will be released approximately 2 months apart. The Faux trailers for Death Proof will be directed by Rodriguez, while those for Planet Terror will be by Tarantino. No mention was made of the trailers by Roth or Zombie. European fans of Tarantino have expressed their outrage in film forums and with online petitions, with many suggesting they will boycott the films, or possibly illegally download them. While The Weinstein Company has stated that the film will be split because non American audiences have no experience with the concept of double features, many in Europe see it as an attempt to increase profits by forcing audiences to pay twice for a film that is shown as a single entity in the United States. 1. This sucks. 2. European audiences used to have a concept of a double feature. 3. Most of the target market for the movie in the U.S. is too old to have a concept of a double feature. 4. The movies do look promising. 5. This sucks.
  • 1. Yes, it does. 2. They probably knew that. It's an excuse. 3. See #2. 4. Words cannot adequately convey the pure distilled awesome. 5. Yes, yes it does.
  • Oh Rose McGowan you copycat! (NSFW)
  • That photo is proof that the Left Behind folks are right.
  • Also good reason to WANT to be Left Behind.
  • Left AND right behind, that one has.
  • Oh shit. Looking at the Wikipedia entry on Peretti, I find that I have read his first three books. Long, long ago. I was immature, and a crazy Christian type, at the time. Honest. So shut up.
  • Ha ha!
  • We won't hold it against you Skriketti! Hurf durf! Neener, etc