Word: fictions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...warnings they were reading. "They're asking people to believe that we have a God who simply can't wait to zap the Christian flight crew out of jets so they crash?" asks Paul Maier, a professor of ancient history at Western Michigan University and an author of Christian fiction, who finds in the Left Behind books a deity he does not recognize. "You can't believe in a God who would do this kind of thing...
...hard to imagine a less likely fiction impresario than LaHaye, a retired Evangelical pastor who turned 76 in April. He didn't seriously contemplate writing a novel until his 60s--and then found he wasn't good at it (he hands over his notes for each book to Jenkins, 52, also a born-again Christian, who has written more than 80 novels). Instead, LaHaye has spent most of his life spreading his view of Christ and fighting for conservative principles, often through nonfiction. Very often--LaHaye has had 51 nonfiction books published, an eclectic mix of theology (for example...
...many people turning to someone like LaHaye--a guy more interested in reality than fiction--for novels? Because in this volatile moment, many people are starting to read the Left Behind books not as novels but as tomorrow's newspapers. LaHaye believes that the Scriptures lay out a precise timetable for the end of the world, and the Left Behind books let us in on the chronology. A man of few doubts, LaHaye offers answers to one of the biggest questions ever posed: When will it end? Well, you will know the end has begun when the true believers...
...name was Salmon, like the fish: first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." Go ahead, read it again. Almost everything that makes The Lovely Bones the breakout fiction debut of the year--the sweetness, the humor, the kicky rhythm, the deadpan suburban gothic--is right there, packed into those first two lines, under pressure and waiting to explode...
...thing that would actually destroy the human race was not money," her young killer reflects. "It was the threat of losing our very reason for existence." Somehow Japan lost that mooring during the bubble: unless it gets it back, there will be plenty more lurid stories, both in fiction and, even more frightening, on the front pages of the newspapers...