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Date: 16 August 2007 16:04:17
Day 7
I've just finished Tribulation Force.
Bad theology.
Bad politics.
Bad romance scenes.
I was prepared for the theology to be bad, but I wasn't prepared for it to be quite so vomit-inducing. At one point Chloe and Buck were walking in the middle of the night 'Chloe chuckled "What are the odds that two unmarried people are taking a walk at midnight in America and both of them are virgins?" "Especially after all the Christians were taken away."' It's almost painful to read - the faith portrayed is so black and white. One of the key points in the book is the part where a Jewish academic realises that Jesus is the Messiah and professes his faith on live TV - the whole passage read as a long, boring, badly written sermon.
I don't remember the politics being that bad, but since I've become more of a bleeding heart I'm reading much more into the Zionism of the books - There is no mention in any of the books about Jerusalem being a divided city, or the palestinian people (and the books were being written around the time of the second intifada).
And the romance scenes...dear God, don't get me started on the romance scenes. They are painful. Not just cheesy to the extreme, moralistic and shallow, but so, so, badly written.
By the end of the book a nuclear war had begun - Chicago and London had been bombed and one of the four member of the tribulation force is dead. Oh, and Hattie's pregnant with the baby of the anti-christ - and she's not even married