{"id":858,"date":"2017-02-01T21:25:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T21:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/?p=858"},"modified":"2017-02-01T21:29:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T21:29:27","slug":"question-posed-has-anyone-else-been-completely-invested-in-a-long-seriesbook-only-to-get-to-end-and-be-completely-disappointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/random\/question-posed-has-anyone-else-been-completely-invested-in-a-long-seriesbook-only-to-get-to-end-and-be-completely-disappointed","title":{"rendered":"Question posed: Has anyone else been completely invested in a long series\/book only to get to end and be completely disappointed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The question was posed on reddit today<\/a>, the link will take you to other people’s answers but here’s mine:<\/p>\n

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I would say that I never reached the end of the series because I felt duped at a point before the end.<\/p>\n

Long story short, my father introduced me to the Left Behind series because I was in the middle of a spiritual quest at the time and he knew I also loved science fiction so he asked me to give them a chance.<\/p>\n

I was fascinated by apocalyptic fiction as well so I gave the first one a read. It was average in expressing itself language wise, but I did grow to like\/tolerate the characters.<\/p>\n

Then I read the second book…didn’t think much of it, and then the third book arrived on my doorstep.<\/p>\n

I realized that “Jesus” was never going to come to Earth in these books because it was just a fucking money machine. The authors weren’t interested in spreading the Word, they just wanted eyes on their books for as long as possible.<\/p>\n

They dangled Jesus like a fucking carrot.<\/p>\n

The third book went into the trash half read, and I never looked back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The question was posed on reddit today, the link will take you to other people’s answers but here’s mine: I would say that I never reached the end of the series because I felt duped at a point before the end. Long story short, my father introduced me to the Left Behind series because I … <\/p>\n

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