Dejados atras

Escrito por Tim LaHaye y Jerry B. Jenkins

Narrado por Francisco Rivela

En un instante cataclismico desaparecen del planeta millones de personas. Se descontrolan los vehiculos repentinamente, sin nadie que los maneje. La gente esta aterrada al desaparecer sus seres queridos delante de sus propios ojos. En medio del caos global Raimundo Steele, capitan de aviones comerciales, debe buscar a su familia . las respuestas . la verdad . Por devastadoras que hayan sido las desapariciones, los dias mas oscuros pueden estar aun por llegar.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 6 feb 2008
• ISBN: 9781449803230

Tim LaHaye

Before his passing in 2016, Tim LaHaye was a New York Times bestselling author of more than 70 nonfiction books, many on biblical prophecy and end-times. He is the coauthor of the record-shattering Left Behind series and is still considered one of America's foremost authorities on biblical end-times prophecy.

Comentarios para Dejados atras

[blbooks-14314 · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

First sentence: Rayford Steele's mind was on a woman he had never touched.

When I was in my late teen years, there were two book series that were being talked about--Left Behind and Harry Potter. I was slow to read them both, though I did read the first books in both series around the same time--when I was in college. Both books I considered slow, slow, slow, super slow. I recently read the Harry Potter series and appreciated it for the most part (though it's not for everyone). I decided I'd give this series a go. Or at least attempt to do so.

The premise is simple: The rapture occurs in the first chapter of the book and everyone else has been....drumroll please....left behind. The story follows three or four main characters as they try to piece together what happened and why. Rayford Steele and Buck Williams are the two male leads of the story. (Chloe, Rayford's daughter, and Hattie, Rayford's flight attendant, round out the cast.) Rayford is almost certain right from the get go that it is the rapture, that this was a supernatural occurrence, that Christ has returned for the saints, that these are the last days. Everyone else takes more convincing---for the most part.

I am a Christian.
I am a Christian who genuinely believes in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
I believe the Bible to be the Word of God, inerrant, infallible, God-breathed--the whole works.

I mention all of the above so that you know where I am coming from in my review. I am not mocking the Bible. I am not mocking the second coming. I am not questioning the existence of God. I am not doubting God's promises.

But this book suffers from two or three issues.
1) The writing is bad especially in terms of characterization and dialogue. Nails on a chalkboard bad.
2) The writing comes across as cocky and condescending. I think this has to do with being a little too confident in their particular interpretation of the end times than perhaps anyone should be.
3) The book has an obvious point and becomes repetitive in trying to reiterate the point. Now the point itself--believe in Jesus Christ, repent of your sins, turn to him, have faith, all of it--none of these are bad points. But they don't make for the absolute best fiction. That is when you are crafting a novel, crafting characters and dialogue, it might be a good idea to go a little deeper and broader.

I can't say that the book is theologically awesome. Because while I am sure that Jesus Christ *is* returning, the way everything is laid out in the novel makes a lot of assumptions, presumptions, goes way above and beyond what can be clearly supported by Scripture. I am reminded of old cartoons where a character is running and happens to run off a cliff. The character keeps on running--on air itself--until that moment when they look down and there is nothing below.

I think it is easy to mock the writing--just read some reviews on GoodReads and the like--and somehow turn it into a mockery of the end times itself. Or to turn it into a mockery of those who do believe. But the two shouldn't have to be linked together. You can believe in God and also not enjoy a book.

I will say this in the book's defense. IF THE PACING OF THE LAST HUNDRED PAGES had been the pacing from the start, then the book might not be so bad. The book is just so incredibly dull until it isn't.

[rockhead515-580421 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

The dialog is a little amateurish but that will probably evolve as the series goes forward.
The story is very interesting and I'm looking forward to the rest of them.

[foof2you · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

The first book in the Left Behind series describing what happens when the rapture happens and those left behind come to grips what has happened. This a fictionalized view of what the authors believed would happen if this event occurred in modern time. It is taken from various books in the Bible.

[jntjesussaves · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Writing: 4.5; Theme: 5.0; Content: 4.5; Language: 5.0; Overall: 4.5

After a large portion of the population disappears, a group of unlikely individuals unite to form a Christian coalition to witness to those left behind. They call themselves, Tribulation Force. Highly recommend.

***May 19, 2024***

[firsttemple · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Truely enjoyed this work. LaHay and Jenkins wrote a captivating story about how they think it might be like during the rapture.

[gmomaj · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

An airborne Boeing 747 is headed to London when, without any warning, passengers mysteriously disappear from their seats. Terror and chaos slowly spread not only through the plane but also worldwide as unusual events continue to unfold. For those who have been left behind, the apocalypse has just begun.

[ecataldi-1 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Man, this thing took FOREVER! I don't know how many books there are in the series, but I know that I won't be reading them all (and judging from how much space they take up on the shelf at the library, there is a TON). The whole premise of this series is what would happen if the rapture occurred and you were one of the millions (probably billions) left behind. Rayford Steele is piloting an aircraft when a stewardess he'd been lusting after rushes into the cockpit tells him that they're suddenly missing over 100 people. At first he thinks it's a joke but he soon realizes that all their clothes have been left behind as well. One of the passengers on the plane is an award winning, international journalist named Buck. He sets about recording everything because he knows this is the biggest story of his career, hell of his lifetime! Buck, the stewardess, the pilot, and his daughter start finding their paths crossing as they try to figure out what on earth has happened to all their loved ones and how they are going to survive what comes next. Not as bad as I thought it would be, but not great either.

[neverstopreading-1 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

 From a theological perspective, this book is awful. As you can expect, it accepts as its starting point the notion of a pre-tribulational rapture (a teaching that goes only back as far as the late 17th or 18th century), in which God tries to get non-believers to believe by taking away the people who could help them understand what he's been trying to tell them.

If you ignore this nonsense, the story itself is mildly entertaining. It's better than playing stupid games that won't let you win unless you pay, at least.

[gypsysmom_1 · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

Ironically, I am writing this review on June 6, 2006 (06/06/06) which some people claim will be the day of the apocalypse. If I believed the message of this book I would think only practising Christians would be called to heaven and the rest of us will be left to suffer on earth. Although I was raised in the Christian church, I was never confirmed and I do not attend church regularly. I would say I believe in a supreme being but I don't think one has to attend church or belong to an organized religion to be a good person. I certainly don't think that all those other people in the world who are religious but not Christian are doomed. Christianity has been responsible for a lot of death and destruction such as the Crusades and the struggles in Northern Ireland between the Protestants and the Catholics. So I don't think it can claim a moral high ground as this book leads the reader to believe.

Having said all that, it is probably not surprising that I gave this book such a low rating. However, that is not the only problem I had with it. I thought the book was repetitious for those parts of it that dealt with seeking salvation. On the other hand, there really was very little attention paid to the fall-out of having millions of people disappear. I find it hard to believe that within days of such a cataclysmic event, air travel and international meetings would continue as usual. I was also irritated by the lack of discussion of events outside of the great U. S. of A.

[kemilyh1988 · Calificación: 1 de 5 estrellas]

Just no. NOPE

[brandyluther-1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

very exciting and page turning adventure into a historical and biblical dream made real.

[danaburkey · Calificación: 1 de 5 estrellas]

I read these books in high school and liked them well enough, but there were just too many characters to track and follow. Also, lot of a exposition to get through and speeches given often from the religious leaders.... The movie does look promising though! We shall see...

[wesleylowe · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

The Left Behind series are kind of a guilty pleasure for me. The books are great fun when you turn off your brain and just enjoy. This is one of the few series of books that our whole family enjoys

[jenladuca · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Read this series over 10 years ago, absolutely loved it!!! I can still remember all the main characters and the plot lines for each book, that tells you how much these books have stuck with me over the years and I've never read anything in the same genre type that was even close to being as good.

[benuathanasia · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

I read about 2/3 of this on a flight between Charlotte and Bradley. My personal setting made this far more enjoyable (though it was very enjoyable, anyway). It's a tad on the preachy-side, but not nearly as much so as you would expect given the content. It's a bit predictable, but then again, it isn't exactly high-literature. This is just good, fun light reading.

[vincentdarlage · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

I started this series because my wife wanted me to read them, and since I like sharing things in common with her, I read them. Wasn't as bad as I feared, but the authors have a lot of annoying habits to create filler, such as constantly having the characters relate again and again their personal stories. Many of the characters are goody-goodies who are basically undistinguishable from each other. The Biblical research throughout is fairly shoddy, which surprised me. He took many things out of context and neglected to answer any of the objections people genuinely have about Christianity (for example, the books insist Jesus fulfills all of the Messianic prophecies, when he does not, such as being named "Immanuel," which is the prophecied name).

[allygggggg · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

I think Buck is the sexiest man alive.

[wareagle78 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

First of an as-yet uncompleted series of novels playing out the Bible's Book of Revelations. This first is gripping. I picked it off a library shelf long before I had heard of the series and was riveted. The back cover blurb was short and to the point:

In one cataclysmic moment, millions around the globe disappear.

Vehicles, suddenly unmanned, careen out of control. People are terror sticken as loved ones vanish before their eyes.

In the midst of global chaos, airline captain Rayford Steele must search for his family, for answers, for truth. As devastating as the disappearances have been, the darkest days may lie ahead.

[librarycin · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

2.5 stars. Rayford Steele is an airline pilot, flying a commercial flight; Buck Williams is a journalist and a passenger on the same plane. Mid-flight - all of a sudden - people disappear into thin air, leaving their clothes behind. They discover that millions of people have disappeared in the same manner at the same time, all around the world. Rayford turns to God and his wife's church for comfort and answers; Buck the journalist is just trying to find out what happened.

I like the idea behind the story, and parts were exciting, but the book just got too preachy for me. There was some political stuff in the book that I just didn't find all that interesting either, so those two things combined really brought down my rating and enjoyment of the book. It ends on a cliffhanger, which may have left me wanting to read the next book, except I just can't handle the preachiness of it all, so I won't be continuing.

[kewpie83 · Calificación: 1 de 5 estrellas]

I just can't get passed the way this book was written. It seemed like the writing of a grade schooler to me... The story-line is interesting, but the writing brings it down!

[lcoale1 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

I actually read this book for my College Success Skills class, and there were some things I didn't like. The characters seem to change quicker than what would be natural, which I didn't like. However, the concept of the book was very deep, especially because I was annotating for dystopia the entire time. It definitely made me think, and I already have two people lined up to read this book after I turn my paper in.

[fmweiler · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

This is great series, fascinating to say the least. The writing is a bit weak at times. They also take the book of revelation to the extreme but it does really make you think especially if you are a christian.

[sr510 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to settle on a star rating for this book; anything from 2 to 5 seems defensible.

Is it great writing? No, it is not. It ranges from adequate to plodding, with its flaws being perhaps most visible when it tries to portray somebody as being particularly eloquent.

But the ideas are the important thing here. This is meant as a dramatization of the Rapture and its immediate aftermath, showing what it might look like were it to happen today. While I don't happen to share any of the authors' premises, it does a good job of setting out how such a scenario might broadly play out, even if it's less successful with the details. (We could spend hours nitpicking the details.) And its earnestness serves it surprisingly well, making it easier to overlook -- or at least forgive -- the literary flaws. It's fairly engaging, especially if you accept the premises. I can see why the series has been wildly successful.

[lisamaria_c · Calificación: 1 de 5 estrellas]

I didn't expect to like this really. Not given what I'd heard of its Christian Fundamentalist plot and themes. However, I know this is enormously popular, a huge bestseller, and I do sometimes like to read such books, to better understand their appeal. And if they're really bad... Well, I found the Twilight Saga rather fun as a trainwreck and read the whole thing. This novel struck me as too stupid to bother with within a dozen pages though.

This novel, part of a series, has as its basis the doctrine held by some Christian sects about "the Rapture." The idea is that in the Last Days of Earth when Jesus returns those who are "saved" will be pulled out and spared the Tribulations. So in this novel such people are suddenly whisked away and those left have to deal with the aftermath.

I admit it, I soon did feel I wouldn't get through this, that it was too much like having pamphlet-wielding missionaries crowding me in a stuck elevator. But that aspect isn't what stopped me reading. Or the subpar writing evident from the first. No, a passage on Page 8 is what got to me. We're supposed to believe that a man invents "a synthetic fertilizer that caused the desert sands of Israel to bloom... making Israel the richest nation on Earth" with "zero unemployment" and they are then able to buy peace from their enemies. This is so breathtakingly spectacularly stupid on an a scientific, agricultural, economic and political level, in comparison the Rapture is easy to believe in, and right there I lost interest in anything the authors wanted to put before me.

[lorireed_1 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Imagine that suddenly millions of seemingly random people vanish into thin air. Cars are left without drivers, airplanes without pilots, parents without children. Those left behind are people that must not only deal with the wreckage, but they must also try to come to terms with the actual disappearances of friends and loved ones. What happened? Was it aliens, a new form of nuclear technology, the end of the world, or a prophecy of The Bible that is being fulfilled? In this first book of the Left Behind series, LaHaye and Jenkins draw readers into a captivating story of the human condition.

[jessicastatzer · Calificación: 1 de 5 estrellas]

I only read this book because it was chosen for my book club. I tried to approach it with an open mind but my reluctancy was confirmed. The book was unexciting, unfulfilling, and born from "Christian" paranoia. Do not take on this book unless you are willing to read the entire series. The author took 25 chapters to accomplish what could have been done in 5. The ending was no ending at all, it only sets up the next book in this very long series. In short I can't believe I wasted my time and brain cells on this book and would be more than a little embarassed to admit to reading it.

[hamiltonpam · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Read the entire series, enjoyed the story. I wanted to learn more about the theology the book was based on.

[mesalamb · Calificación: 1 de 5 estrellas]

This book is crap. I tried to read the series so I could know for myself whether it had any merit. I could not stand to waste any more time reading past the first book. There is nothing good to say about it. It is so sad that this series became so popular.

[darrol_1 · Calificación: 1 de 5 estrellas]

Bad and inadequate Bible interpretation along with a touch of soft porn and more than a touch of paranoia.

[misterg5 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

this is a wonderful book and i hope this never happens because i will be left behind :-(