As much as I hate to admit, I'm having a lot of problems getting into the second of the "Left Behind" books. The main reason is the just absolutely atrocious writing, but that's only one of a few things.

One of the crazier things I'm having trouble wrapping my head arouns is the logic in all of this. I know this is considered somewhat fantasy/sci-fi, but I think a lot of people kinda believe that this is all possible or could happen or God knows what (pun intended). So, too read it, you have to believe that the UN is actually a powerful force in the world. And that the leader of the UN is actually a really, really powerful person. Also, according to all the End of Days speculation, the Anti-Christ will build his new kingdom in New Babylon, which is pretty much Iraq. Therefore, the reader has to believe that it's a perfectly reasonable thing for the new head of the UN (aka, the Anti-Christ) to decide to move the UN to, yes, Iraq. And not only that, the Anti-Christ is going around making all of the countries in the world to disarm and has decided that he is going to take all the discarded weapons to the HQ of the UN to New Babylon. Which means that to all of the people reading it and actually enjoying the book and even buying into some of it, the idea of some guy taking up all the arms in the world and stashing them in Iraq is no big deal.

Also, you have to believe that Cameron "Buck" Williams, noted bon vivant, rebel journalist, world-famous celebrity, and infamous rebel is, in fact, a 30 year old virgin.

One of the other problems I'm having is that there is now a romance going on between Buck and Rayford Steele's 21 year old daughter (who attends Stanford where there is apparently an airport). The romance is handled so well it makes the romance in "Attack of the Clones" seem like "Casablanca."

And finally, there's the fact that the first book dealt mainly with people who weren't big on Jesus and how they discovered the error of their ways. So now that all the heroes are really religious, I'm finding that the "Left Behind" books now have entirely too much Jesus in them.