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I can’t begin to describe how much I loathe this book.

Let me state something before I go too far: I believe, quite earnestly, that the Left Behind series began with nothing but the best and noblest of intentions. I will always believe that.

But I also stand by something that I wrote a few weeks ago: “Left Behind has become a bloated whore.”

Let’s face it: when the final chapter of a sixteen-novel series is a less enthralling read than Hannibal Rising, something has gone very, very wrong.

(Yes, I’m one of the five people who’ll admit to reading Hannibal Rising. My choice of literature lately could be described as “off-kilter” and that would be a compliment.)

I bought Kingdom Come – the final book of the runaway best-selling Left Behind series – Tuesday night (the day it was published) at the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Reidsville. ...

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I am so digging this. Bright and brilliant and an amazing contrast to the previous six covers. This one screams, how do I say this… “Here I am, at last. Here is where I make my final stand. No matter what happens, I will hold my head high and proud. Now do your worst.”

And here is the full cover artwork – front and back – minus the title. Notice that this is the VERY first time (I’m assuming this is him) that we have seen Voldemort’s face depicted in any of the book artwork:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows comes out on July 21, 2007.

EDIT 5:53 PM EST: I keep looking at this cover and for some reason I can’t help but think: Harry is gonna die. There’s something about this cover that hints at at, just like the last cover seemed (well it did for me ...

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So a few weeks ago a close friend asked me if I’d heard anything about this new book called The Secret. Bookworm though I be, this is something that hasn’t appeared on my radar screen at all (though let’s face it: I have been pretty busy lately with things not ordinarily experienced). He said there was also “a movie about it” too. Well last night I finally got around to looking into this…

…and without even cracking open the book once I can confidently say: The Secret is crap.

According to the book, there is some big “secret” that has been put together after being fragmented through the ages: a secret that will bring about “money, health, relationships, happiness”. All you have to do is believe that good things are going to happen to you, and you will miraculously lose weight, gain libido, and have a lot more cash ...

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Two weeks from now will find closure coming to something that should have ended a long, long time ago. Kingdom Come, purportedly the LAST installment of the Left Behind series of novels, comes out on April 3rd.

These books have done absolutely nothing positive for Christianity. They’ve scared a lot of people into professing Christ as their lord and savior. Unfortunately a relationship with Christ has to be built on something more than fear. Being a Christian isn’t supposed to be something you embrace as “fire insurance” against Hell: there’s more to it than that. This is something you do because you realize that on your own, you really don’t have meaning or purpose. Being a witness for Christ means showing others the work that God is completing in our lives. It doesn’t mean scaring people: there’s no spiritual growth possible when fear is made out to be ...

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Works has begun on a sequel to the 1994 movie Forrest Gump.

Presumably it’s going to be based on Gump and Company, Winston Groom’s sequel to his original novel Forrest Gump.

I’m probably one of the few who will actually admit to reading Gump and Company and let’s just say that… it wasn’t good. The most ridiculous part was when Forrest and Lieutenant Dan commandeer a tank during the Gulf War, drive all the way to Baghdad and capture Saddam Hussein. That comes after Forrest invents New Coke, steers the Exxon Valdez into the rocks and gets involved with the Jim and Tammy Bakker scandal.

Like I said: it wasn’t good....

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