The Iron Catastrophe's Journal

Two actual paragraphs from the "Left Behind" books.
From one of the earlier books:

"Buck Williams sat in the bowels of Teddy Kolleck Stadium in Jerusalem with his pregnant wife, Chloe. He knew she was in no way healed enough from injuries she had suffered in the great earthquake to have justified the flight from the States, but she would not be disuaded. Now she appeared weary. Her bruises and scars were fading, but Chloe still had a severe limp, and her beauty had been turned into a strange cuteness by the unique reshaping of her cheekbone and eye socket."

And here is the very first paragraph from the latest book - Volume NINE:

"Rayford Steele had endured enough brushes with death to know that the cliché was more than true: Not only did your life flash before your mind’s eye, but your senses were also on high alert. As he knelt awkwardly on the unforgiving red rock of the city of Petra in ancient Edom, he was aware of everything, remembered everything, thought of everything and everybody."

THESE BOOKS HAVE SOLD MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS OF COPIES! I don't so much mind the subject matter, as infantile as it is... IT'S THE ACTUAL WRITING! How can ANYBODY get through NINE volumes of this crap?

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