Babylon Rising, Book 1

By: Tim LaHaye, Greg Dinallo

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins

Publisher's summary

Tim LaHaye created the Left Behind Series, which has become one of the most popular fiction series of all time. Those novels, with more that 50 million copies sold, presented a unique combination of suspense and substance drawn from his lifelong study of Biblical prophecy.

Now Tim LaHaye has created a new series that begins with Babylon Rising. The novels in this new series are even faster-paced thrillers based on prophecies that are not covered in the Left Behind books and that have great relevance to the events of today.

Babylon Rising introduces a terrific new hero for our time. Michael Murphy is a scholar of Biblical prophecy, but not the sedate and tweedy kind. Murphy is a field archaeologist who defies danger to fearlessly hunt down and authenticate ancient artifacts from Biblical times. His latest discovery is his most amazing - but it will send him hurtling from a life of excavation and revelations to a confrontation with the forces of the greatest evil. For the latest secret uncovered by Michael Murphy accelerates the countdown to the time of the end for all mankind.

Don't miss the rest of the Babylon Rising series.

©2003 Tim LaHaye (P)2003 Random House Inc., Random House Audio, A Division of Random House, Inc.

Not overly impressed

I guess after left behind, this was a little bit of a letdown.I can’t quite put my finger on what I would like to have seen more in this book, but I just could not get into it. I doubt I will listen to the rest of the series.

Great book

very good it was like a Christian Indiana Jones. Murphy goes on a qwest to find ancient Babylon artifact and gets more action than he expected.
Very well done it was as if I was in the story with the characters. loved the scripture references.

Interesting references to the story of Daniel

Our church is studying Daniel and it is always fun to imagine what if. I’m going to keep going with the series.

Just Different

Well if you expecting another 'Left Behind' knock off.. this isn't it. Babylon Rising is written from more of a heroic Indiana Jones (as someone put it) perspective than a down-to-earth, true-to-life story. Some parts of the book were off the wall, but it did allow the possibilty of what could be going on in places most of us don't see or know about. I think if you don't expect the realizm that the Left Behind series demonistrated in it's first book, you can enjoy this one. I did.

Exceptional book.

This book is better than Left Behind series and it was great. Looking forward to reading the next two books.

Except for the Smuckers guy...

I didn't see that the characters were as bad as others did. In fact, I can't remember a Christian novel before where a good guy actually even THOUGHT about having an alcoholic beverage. Yes, it's squeaky-clean, but would you expect a book from a Christian to have sex?? I'm not sure I buy into the science in the last scene, but it does have an interesting idea...loved the birds...

My biggest gripe is the narrator. I don't know if he's the guy from the Smuckers commercial or not, but I found myself wanting to eat lots of jelly....

Not Left Behind

I agree that this is not up to the caliber of the Left Behind series. There are several parts that did not seem quite right, but the story is only beginning to develop. I will still try the next book in the series. And I give LaHaye three stars just for making an attempt at his goal!

Enjoyed listening to it.

I read this book and the series while in Kuwait in 2007.

What an awesome series, the ups and downs and the head scratching concept left me wanting more from book to book.

Love this series

What did you love best about Babylon Rising, Book 1?

I love all the biblical references

Who was your favorite character and why?

no favorites

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

mostly it was entertaining I would look forward to getting back to the book

too implausible to be entertaining

the mistakes in the narrative and the stupidity of the characters makes this read too frustrating to continue. I enjoyed the Left Behind series because of the accuracy of Prophecy and because the characters were so complex. But this book has none of that. the characters do dumb things that I can predict they will do because the story is so formulaic. I'm going to ask for my money back.