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| Value for Money | 10/10 |
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| Overall rating | 10/10 |
Full review by
Bob Oreily
on 4th Dec 2003
User Rating : 10
Respect :
+131
Good Points: Content: AWARD WINNING Style: SCORE---C+ >>>AVERAGE-REPETITIVE--TEXTBOOK Title: SCORE---A >>>GOOD Cover: SCORE---B- >>>GOOD
Bad Points: Editing: SCORE D- >>>POOR
General comments: I recently received a review copy of this book Beguiled by Rapture Deception, although a Christian, I'm not what you would call an every Sunday Church goin kina guy. Armed with basic knowledge I cracked open the book, finding to my surprise no preface but a rather long introduction. Not that the intro was bad, I simply prefer a short preface outlining its goal.
I was pleased at the first chapter, written in a simple school text book style, as that of a teacher's addition. Each verse was complemented with an explanation sometimes in great length others times not much at all, but coming together well for the altogether comprehension of the subject. The book over all is written in this educational manner and nicely done. However there are times when it seems to flow off the given subject into another area, but to my chagrin, would make its way back, having offered up an entirely more profound understanding of what the scriptures were saying then it would have if having simply stayed its course (just when you think your lost, it pulls you right back in.)
The book flows smoothly form one subject to the next, I like that. The language used is simple; no overwhelming big words you need to break out the dictionary for. Then again there is one of two complaints that I have, and that's with repetitiveness. The book is very repetitive even within the explanations themselves and I find it rather annoying and unnecessary. But I have to confess, that with younger persons or even adults it's often a necessary evil in teaching, to bring home a point or as said, beat it into their heads. Second complaint is poor editing, comprising of wrong word usage and punctuation, I also tend to believe a great deal more information was cut in the process, and it is a shame that a book of this quality that obviously contains vast knowledge in years of study has been treated so poorly, I'll address this issue more in a moment.
As I told you earlier, I have basic bible knowledge, so some of the things I read in this book were like a slap in the face, I never heard of such interpretations before, ever.
At first I thought "what a nut case" but in reading on, it all came together making perfect sense, and what I had previously believed actually made no sense according to the bible scriptures themselves. I must confess I was a rapture believer prior to absorbing this book, but now I'm free of this deception thanks to Mr. Crux. Not only am I free of the lie, but all those years I was not attending church, I feel I made up for in this one book. From this single book "Beguiled by rapture deception" I have gained more knowledge and understanding of the bible than the majority of my friends who have attended churches on a regular basis their entire lives. Few books offer such profound insight as this one. I have been around a long time and know a best seller when I read it, and this has best seller potential written all through it. I know the bias's that exist in the industry between the self and traditional publishing market, and it's too bad because every so often a self published book arises that demands the same recognition and attention of those quality traditional published materials and beguiled by rapture deception is one of them.
I'll put my reputation on the line and say "if you stock this book I guarantee it will sell."
No store wants deadwood sitting on their shelves, space is valuable and something that isn't selling is costing money. This book however I guarantee if presented in view of patrons along with the other new releases will fly off the shelves before many others do.
Getting back to the poor editing, I did a little goggle surfing in hopes of finding more info on the book and its author when I came across this site "Book Reviews by Marc Sadowski Beguiled by Rapture Deception Bookreviewcafe.com." I was appalled by his review and incredible lack of professionalism. There simply exists no rhyme or reason in his reviewing of covers. Marc obviously is no professional having absolutely no clue of how one goes about critiquing a books cover. This is what he wrote "I have noting good to say about this book cover. At first glance, it looks like something that was made in two minutes by a novice on a paint program that comes with all PCs. I've seen covers like this before, and can tell that this was a print on Demand book title because a real publishing house would never allow something like this to be printed. In this case, there are either two people to blame here. There is the author who made this (because this is a print on demand) or there is the print on Demand Company (which would be my guess). I've seen this so many times that it does not even phase me anymore. Print on Demand companies will create [rubbish] for book cover designs. Some have improved, while others have not. Too bad. Reviewed by Marc Sadowski". Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
It gets better, on going through the site I found it's BookInk.com, a freelance editing service, putting two and two together I noted the editor for the book beguiled by rapture deception was Lisa D' Angelo, guess what a Lisa Ann D'Angelo is the managing editor at this site, hmmm could they be one in the same? It gets better yet, still searching I came across BeguiledBook.com you guess it, the official site of beguiled by rapture deception. Would you believe Marc was right; a young high school girl did create the cover along with the web site.
Now if they are the one's who edited the book and the girl who created the cover knew this, and submitted it to this Marc character for a review, then Marc knew full well that it was a self published book and a high school girl designed the cover. If this is true, Marc's review not only is unjustified by the industry, but was based on inside information and as such was nothing more than a mean spirited attack for his own amusement. Why he did this I have no clue, some people are just immature jerks, as in reading some of Marc's letters he himself posted, one of which complained about his reviews, but he thought it was funny.
Marc also seems to have a bias against the book based in the fact he is a spiritualist (Reiki) and calls himself a reiki master :) he comes across as one who was lost trying to find himself and the answers to life, till he stumbled into this little Reiki cult where he now calls home. Of course beguiled by rapture deception would be set against what he practices as a form of witchcraft no wonder the animosity. Too bad.
I recommend this book to everyone in spit of the problems it faces, simply because the value of the content out weighs everything else. I myself plan on giving copies to others so I too can gain those works Mr. Crux pointed out, because I am lacking in them from all my years of not attending church or doing anything productive for the Lord. The book is deserving of praise and really should be sought after by a traditinal publishing house that can do it true justice.
This has been my spin, whats yours?
Bob Oreily's review and ratings | 1316 words | 1 comment added.
Review by
King of shinar
on 14th Nov 2003
User Rating : 10
Respect :
+59
I found the book extremley enlightening and to say it based on lies and a misunderstanding of scripture would itself be an untrue. Yes the book covers many subjects brilliantly and not just the rapture. To say it opinionated and thereby false is to suggest that all books writen in favor of the rapture in like manner are somehow not opinionated and trueful like books by Hal Lindsey is simply ridiculous. As far as thinking a man of God must disclose who he is in his writings is again silly..as mr. ...
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Review by
Dan
on 6th Oct 2003
User Rating : 10
Respect :
+81
Beguiled by rapture deception is an invaluable source of information and a powerful witnessing tool, providing verses with easy to follow explanations that both scholars and laypeople can appreciate, requiring little more than imploring ordinary commonsense and reason.
This book examines the rapture theory in-depth as well as looking at many other commonly held Christian beliefs along the way in a quest for truth
from Geneses to Revelations. In order to understand the end one must first ha ...
Dan's full review | 219 words | 4 comments added.
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