The Anti-Christ Handbook: The Horror and Hilarity of Left Behind

The Anti-Christ Handbook takes a close, often funny look at the Left Behind series, the best-selling evangelical end-times novels written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. Fred Clark, who wrote the long-running Slacktivist blog, works through the books' plots, characters and theology with a critic's patience and a satirist's sense of the absurd. He shows where the story's dramatic claims, its portrayal of faith and its grasp of world events fall apart under scrutiny, and where its unintentional comedy and horror come through.

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The result is part commentary, part comic reading of a publishing phenomenon that millions of readers embraced. It will appeal to readers curious about the series, and to anyone interested in religion and popular culture.

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