[BRIEF NOTE] Left Behind
Feb. 22nd, 2005 11:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldDavid Adesnik at Oxblog has recently posted about his experiences reading the first volume of the immensely popular Left Behind series (1, 2), and links to Fred Clark's critical fisking of the first 71 pages of said volume.
Adesnik and Clark are both right to point out a mean-spiritedness, an anti-intellectualism, a poverty of good writing, common to the books in the series. Myself, all that I can add is that, working for the PEI library system, I always found myself squicked when I handled the children's books written for an affiliated series, describing the struggles of God-fearing children against an anti-Christ-controlled school system and the adult allies of Satan.
Adesnik and Clark are both right to point out a mean-spiritedness, an anti-intellectualism, a poverty of good writing, common to the books in the series. Myself, all that I can add is that, working for the PEI library system, I always found myself squicked when I handled the children's books written for an affiliated series, describing the struggles of God-fearing children against an anti-Christ-controlled school system and the adult allies of Satan.
