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| Value for Money | 5/10  |
|---|---|
| Overall rating | 5/10 |
Full review by
Timbo2015
on 4th Oct 2004
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Good Points: Great idea for a story.
Bad Points: Written at a juvenile level, no fact-checking, pathetic dialog.
General comments: Tim LaHaye and Greg Dinallo Babylon Rising - This book is bad. Really bad. If someone had asked me to name the worst book I have ever read, it would have been hard to narrow it down to just one. Until now, that is. This book is truly the worst piece of garbage I have ever read.
There were so many improbable things in the book that it became a joke. I only finished it so I could write this review.
The complete lack of any foul language was enough to make me puke, strange as that may seem. Example 1: An enraged FBI agent is screaming at a TV reporter. He says, (I am not making this up) "I'll fry your fanny [ed: American equivalent of "bum"] in court" Example #2: Chuck, the prison-hardened habitual criminal angrily says to the Talon character "What kind of junk are you trying to pull" Surely this is not realistic. We all know what words would have been used, why not say it? Is the "s" word really so shocking to anyone over the age of 10? Save this "junk" (replace junk with previously hinted at "s" word) writing for 11 year olds. A secret organization perpetrates murders, bombings, and chaos in a quest for world domination, yet nobody in the entire book utters a word worse than fanny. PUKE! The authors (I use that term loosely) should not even attempt dialog if they can't make it more realistic.
The bronze head floating in a perpetual column of air was ludicrous. You mean to tell me that in 4000 years, not once, even for a second, did the wind near that pyramid ever calm down? Ludicrous. What kind of wind velocity would it take to levitate a solid bronze object? 400, 500 mph? The author previously noted that the falcon could dive at only 200 mph. How could it even get close to the head? It would have been blown up the chute like it was shot out of a cannon. Perhaps, most bizarre about this scene was that after the falcon dropped the head into the shaft, it was written off by everyone, as if it was lost to all time, when in reality it was just laying at the bottom of the shaft. What on earth?
The bit about the wealthy Arab who flies Murphy to the Middle East in his private jet and hosts him just to learn a little about Christianity was ridiculous. Then when they talk, they never go any deeper than what could be found on 1/10 of a Sunday school pamphlet. Doesn't this guy have the internet? A private jet, yes. Internet, no.
One of the final scenes was uncovering the head of the statue. They locate it with ground sonar or something, then get a bulldozer and just start bulldozing dirt. This was just after they complained how the Iraqis were not properly protecting their ancient artifacts. Has the author ever watched the Discovery Channel? Real archeologists would probably spend years painstakingly documenting every pebble and artifact as they dug with hand shovels and those little brushes.
I gave this book 0 stars, only because I can't give negative stars.
This book appears to have been written for a bible-thumping 7th grader with Attention Deficit Disorder. I find it shocking this book could even get published. If I ever meet the two authors, I will demand my money back.
Timbo2015's review and ratings | 579 words
Review by
Harriet Klausner
on 29th Oct 2003
User Rating : 10
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Babylon Rising
Tim LaHaye and Greg Dinallo
Bantam, Oct 2003, $24.95
ISBN: 0553803220
A biblical archeologist searches for artifacts that are found in the bible to prove that the events written about actually took place. He is no Indiana Jones but Professor Michael Murphy has had enough hair-raising adventures to rival that of the movie icon. Right now he is searching for the Brazen Serpent ordered destroyed by King Nebuchadnezzar because people worshipped the false idol and not the true ...
Harriet Klausner's full review | 244 words | 1 comment added.
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