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.

can I get a refund?

If the authors spent less time engaged in bible-thumping, in-your-face-evangelism.....they might've had a mediocre story. Instead, woodenly clumsy characters are used to preach a literalist Christian message.

Disappointing

Too little Indiana Jones and too much Evangelical Christian proselytizing.

Avoid !

I was really disappointed after listening to this. If i wanted that much 'happy clapping' religious claptrap thrown at me at the expense of what might have evolved into a good story line I would have gone to Sunday school for a formal brainwashing by the god squad!

The narrator is dull, monotone and his attempt at cultivating accents is diabolical. This could have been potentially a good story line, but after the first torturous book (which I did listen to the end) I will not be going back for more in the series and have no desire to see the outcome of the storyline as is.

Babylon Rising

Corney, trite dialog combined with a totally unrealistic story line. Probably the worst book I have ever listened to. I shut it off after the first hour, but I doubt things were going to improve.

Sad

It just doesn't get any worse. Poorly written and researched - like a very cheap back knock-off of Indian Jones. The characters are shallow and the dialog sterotipic and melodramatic - not unlike those in the movie "Pleasantville". I have to wonder if the author didn't turn this book out over night just to make a buck on an already established "Left Behind" audience.

If you know anything about archaeology at all, this book will drive you crazy! Not only does the main character outright steal archeological finds (pieces of the serpent) but the irresponsible way that he treats sites and artifacts would make even the worst archeologist pull his hair out. If you're not a Christian, please don't believe that all Christians are either this shallow or unscientific in our approach to biblical research!

Cardboard Characters with a Message

The single most mediocre book I've listened to. Characters are poorly developed, either good beyond belief or so evil as to be comical. The action was so full of gratuitous mayhem, violence and gore that the author's Message of love and redemption read like a footnote rather than a theme.

Blah, blah, blah!

I loved the left behind series but this book is the pits!
The narrator sounds like Gomer Pyle 75% of the time. The woman Scottish professor sounds like a man.
The storyline is more boring than watching CNN repeat their agendas over and over again until you wish you could throw the tv out of the house.
I wish I could give it a negative star!!!

Rather Childish

The level of research involved in writing this story was weak and unrevealing. Several points about how ancient people thought and understood their religion is at best patronizing or insulting to human logic.

In terms of storytelling, the author half preaches at the reader, which is fine if you do it creatively, but instead he has his main character literally just tell it to the students in his class (so, you…) in a straight forward way. He tries to tell jokes, but it’s so stereotypical it’s painful. Then, you have to wonder at a character who has been risking his life to get an artifact, is TOLD by a antagonist that dangerous people are going to chase after it and him, so he announces the whole thing to an open college class… and then is surprised when bad things happen to him…

The reader of this audiobook version is straight awful. He made the main character (who is rather Indiana Jones like) sound like Jimmy Stewart. Wahhh Mary! Yuh want the brazen serpent? Just gimme a rope and I’ll lasso it down fer ya! OTHER CHARACTERS sound more enjoyable to be around than the main character! The only character more butchered was the rival love interest! She is supposed to be a Scottish lass, elfen like, petite… yeah, the reader is a dude, but she sounded like a froggy Scottish effeminate lumberjack.

Evangelical Christianity

I was distracted from the story and a little aggravated by numerous attempts to covert the reader to evangelistic Christianity. This was not what I expected or wanted when I selected this book.

Very disappointing

I was very disappointed in this book. It does not begin to match the Left Behind series. It was so unbelieveable. It took over an hour or maybe two just to really understand what was going on with the story. I would have cut it off, but I was traveling and didn't have another story with me. I will not purchase any more of this series.