Pat Robertson - The End of the Age
(It was originally published in 1995, and other "end of the world" warnings from him have come and gone.)
Just Awful, October 17, 2010
I bought this second hand, expecting an entertaining read and found a weak attempt at writing a novel. The characters have no foundation and if you picture them actually behaving the way they do in the pages, you'll find it laughable. Picturing anyone actually speaking the dialogue in the book will make you giggle to yourself.
Secondly, the science is just awful... the meteor burning so hot in space days before it reaches Earth - what is it burning out there in the vacuum of space? How is it causing a heat wave on Earth?? If it's shining so bright, why was it only discovered a week before it hits??? Why does the main character keep switching back and forth from being an astronomy expert to knowing absolutely nothing about astronomy?
In a way, I'm enjoying reading it in the same way I enjoy watching the occasional bad movie - to poke fun at it, and actually picture it like a movie... one of those bargain bin disaster movies you find at gas stations.
We should all be thankful the author lost the 1988 Presidential Primaries...
This "prophet" has all the right things!!, April 19, 2003
Err I meant all the WRONG things! Wow, Mr. Patty Robertson said that a big bad astriod will hit the earth on 2000 AD and boom goes the earth and everybody EXCEPT for him, which will go directly to heaven because "I like to preach hate and stuff, and I think drinking and cussing and doing inmoral things are O-K as long as I "find" God in the last second!" Uh, well this is 2003 actually, I don't remember a big bad astriod hitting the earth. OH!! That's why this book is selling so badly? You know, I think Pat Robertson even denied that he wrote this book now his perdictions are wrong. Oh what will be next?
Anyway, if you like to hate people of other belief/religion/race/color and etc and believes that 9-11 is caused by people of different belief/religion/race/color then here is your book!
But if you were a bit more saner then stay away from this book, you are only giving Pat Robertson more money for his manison!
Dreadful, August 8, 2002
I read this book on a dare over Christmas break 1998 after being offered it by a friend, and fellow skeptic, at Colorado State University, who was a physics major.
It combines dull, unexpressive prose, plus a boring, predictable tale of end-of-history redemption for American evanagelical Christians. I guess this is a way for the fundamentalist Christians to tell themselves they have been right all along, liberals and Jews be damned. Robertson's writing borders on self-parody and I found myself amused by its poor quality. He's not a good writer and obviously made no effort to hide it behind the writing talents of a good editor. Quite frankly, I doubt a good editor could do much with this dreck beyond tossing it in the trash can. Robertson is a charasmatic leader of the evangelic Christian movement, but we find no evidence of it in his writing.
What was most disapointing of all about this book was Robertson's anti-Hindu bigotry. His chiding of Jews for their non-belief is subtle, but his open hostility to Hinduism should be seen as nothing more than blatant racism.
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