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Title: Apocalypse Dawn (Apocalypse Dawn, 1) by Mel Odom ISBN: 0-8423-8418-9 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (24 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A Complicated Followup to a Brilliant Series
Comment: It's hard to write in the immense shadow of Jerry Jenkins' Left Behind Series, but author Mel Odom does a decent enough job with his first attempt in this brand-new spin-off.
Where Apocalypse Dawn is strong is its portrayal of military life. It echoes much of the style of Dee Hendersen's Uncommon Heroes Series. It is interesting to step into a world so foreign to many people.
Mel also knows how to write a fairly believable plot line. And his character development is rich and vibrant. Apocalypse Dawn is like a microscopic close-up of one angle of the end times, unlike Left-Behind, which is a blow-by-blow chronilogical account.
Where this book fails considerably are on two fronts. First, it is quite long and protracted and the average reader will quickly tire of the endless military jargon. It's great for war geeks, who love to rap about RPGS and M-7's and a billion other acronyms and abreviations. The cliques and phrases that are a part of military culture come off as preachy to the average person.
The biggest beef, however, will be with Mel's strange theology. The way to salvation is mixed and jumbled. Good Christians are left behind because they got mad at God for taking away relatives prematurely. Since when did standard soul-searching become the Unpardonable Sin? By this criteria, Mel would throw Job and David and Paul out of Heaven. And then in another point, it seems as though Baptism is the way to Heaven. I was really troubled by Mel's strange Gospel message. It seems as though he needs to put down the military manuals and brush up on basic Scriptural theology.
All in all, Apocalypse Dawn is a thrilling read, full of interesting military information and richly layered characters, but don't base your faith on it. Because it leaves you wondering who what it takes to get left behind.
Rating: 4
Summary: W.E.B. Griffin at the Rapture?
Comment: This is a very good military-style thriller tied to the LEFT-BEHIND series. Odom writes very convincingly about the U. S. military, and his heroic protagonist, Ranger First Sergeant Sam Adams "Goose" Gander, is an outstanding character.
There are several other characters introduced, along with separate sub-plots, and these show lots of potential for the series. The one about the doubt-filled Navy Chaplain plagued by demons as he tried to spread the word about the Rapture is especially intense. The one about Goose's wife, a Fort Benning social worker, has potential, but is not well-realized -- every child in the world is raptured away, and they're pressing kidnapping charges about one kid? Come on.
To me, one of the weaknesses of the LEFT BEHIND series is that not enough attention was paid to the Rapture. And they we see most of it through the eyes of an airline pilot and a newspaper reporter.
The best thing about APOCALYPSE DAWN is that is shows the responses from many different types of ordinary people to this extraordinary event.
Rating: 4
Summary: Not as good as the LB series, but good in its' own right.
Comment: A serious fan of Techno-war books (Tom Clancy, Harold Coyle, Dale Brown, Larry Brown, Ian Slater, etc.), I jumped at the chance to read something in that catagory that was related to the Left-Behind series, which is a very good Christian fiction series (If you haven't heard of it by now ;p). Now that it's been a few months since I've read it (Twice), I think I should comment. First, if you consider this book as the same level of depth as a Clancy or Larry Brown, I just didn't get that feeling. However, by the end of the book you do care for the characters, but somehow for some of them you don't really care one way or another about what happens to them. Of course the main characters are fleshed out and you do wonder about them, and at times you really connect. The over-all story is pretty interesting, although some of the side stories don't really matter, unless of course they'll be used to set up further plotlines in sequels. Overall, though, it's a solid book, and able to stand on its' own. I'm glad I got it, and I think if you're a military spiel nut like me, you'll like it too.
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Title: Soon by Jerry B. Jenkins ISBN: 0842384065 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: End of State (Political Thriller Left Behind, 1) by Neesa Hart ISBN: 0842384197 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Glorious Appearing: The End of Days (Left Behind #12) by Tim F. Lahaye, Jerry B. Jenkins ISBN: 0842332359 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: 30 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Babylon Rising by GREG DINALLO, TIM LAHAYE ISBN: 0553803220 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Crucible (Left Behind Military #2) by Mel Odom ISBN: 0842387765 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: 01 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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