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Title: The Illuminati : by Larry Burkett ISBN: 0-7852-7529-0 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Pub. Date: 19 June, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.05 (37 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Overexaggerated & unbelievable, but interesting.
Comment: An interesting plot, quite easy to read although very religious(directly describing the anti-christ, heaven/hell etc. - the author isobviously a devout christian) and somewhat too exaggerated and farfetched at times. The author certainly has a vivid imagination though - it is amazing (although thoroughly unbelievable) all the worldshaking events that he described happening in just the space of the next 10 years.
The characters are interesting and well thought out, although the author has an annoying habit of giving ALL of the characters names, however important or unimportant they may be. This results in the reader reading half the book before he realises which characters are important and which are not.
This book is however worth reading if you're interested in plots, conspiricies etc. Disappointingly, however, it does not tell you very much about the Illuminati.
Rating: 1
Summary: Angels and Demons is better (times ten)
Comment: I've only gotten through about 100 pages of the book, and I have decided to put it down (thank the lord it was only 6 bucks). So far it went from bad to worse. The "Illuminati" group described by Burkett is nothing like I have ever read before. It is my understanding that while they are enemies of the Catholic Church, they are not hellbent on putting "Satan's Kingdom on Earth" (pg. 85).
Also, the characters that Burkett places into the Society are noncharacteristic of what is understood about it. The Illuminati are said to have trusted politcal, financial and military (the list goes on) leaders of great power within their highest ranks. Burkett places an Arab arms dealer as the leader of the Illuminati (not quite what I expected), and gives no men of high statute a place within his version of the Society.
His biased view towards Christianity distorts the percieved truth of the Illuminati. Burkett could be just trying to undermine a group against his personal beliefs (suprise!).
Do not read this book if you are looking for an objective study on the Illuminati. However, if you like silly futuristic tales; be my guest. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (Author of The Da Vinci Code) would be a much better choice.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not Exceptionally Bad, But Not Very Good
Comment: This was obviously a first-time fiction author's book, and if I were the editor, I would have sent it back for revision. It had very common first-time author problems, such as pacing issues as well as the problem of not really knowing how to effectively write dialogue. Even when I was supposed to feel something in the dialogue, I didn't. I knew what I was supposed to feel, but I didn't feel it. In addition, there are problems that I have with the writing style. For example, the author shows a panoply of personal biases against anything liberal. Granted, legalization of drugs isn't necessarily a good idea, but that doesn't mean that all homosexuals or all liberals use them, which is implied by the story. All liberals don't agree with abortion, either, but that generalization is made too. It's all right to put things like that in and to let your voice show through, but the condemnation that the characters receive from the AUTHOR is rather harsh. In addition to that, the author cites, several times, the taxation of churches as being unconstitutional. I can only assume that he means the Separation Clause of the First Amendment, but it never guarantees the freedom of churches from taxation. Realistically, they should face property and income taxes like any other institution, and be held to the same laws requiring proof of tax exemption status. However, he is correct when he cites the banning of Christian television shows from being aired as being unconstitutional.
Another problem that I had was that characters would make revelations, completely without cause, simply to move the story along. An informant to give them that information may have been more plausible. With experience, the author may correct that problem.
One side note, I have read several Christian "End of The World" fiction pieces, and I think that it is quite humorous that all of them have a Democratic, Liberal president taking away the rights of the people, when the closest things in history to these activities were performed by Abraham Lincoln's signing of a law suspending posse comitatus, and President Bush's lovely "Patriot" Acts.
Anyway, the only other real problem with the story was one that is common to Christian fiction, and it comes from their viewpoint. In the end of the story, it is a foregone conclusion that all of the good characters are or will be Christians. I understand that they believe that God provides morals, but some morals are provided by society. I don't think that I would standby and allow my neighbors to be rounded up as terrorists for what they believed. No matter how much I disagree with what others believe, I refuse to take their right to believe it away.
If you have some free time and want to read an easy novel, pick it up, just get it cheap. You probably won't enjoy it too much.
Harkius
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Title: Illuminati 666: Book 2 by William Josiah Sutton ISBN: 1572580143 Publisher: Teach Services Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Antichrist 666 (Book 1) by William Josiah Sutton ISBN: 1572580151 Publisher: Teach Services Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids by Jim Marrs ISBN: 0060931841 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 24 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: New World Order: The Ancient Plan of Secret Societies by William T. Still ISBN: 0910311641 Publisher: Huntington House Pub Pub. Date: 01 January, 1990 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: Proof of the Illuminati by Seth Payson, Benedict J. Williamson ISBN: 1931468141 Publisher: Invisible College Press, LLC Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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