- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd (18 July 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340863722
- ISBN-13: 978-0340863725
- Product Dimensions: 18.2 x 11 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,014,286 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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[for Babylon Rising:] Nonstop action...there are enough cliff-hangers for a dozen Saturday serials. Michael Murphy is cool, brainy, sexy, and valiant! (New York Daily News )
[for Babylon Rising:] Vivid, fast-paced (Entertainment Weekly ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
[for Babylon Rising:] Vivid, fast-paced (Entertainment Weekly ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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[for Babylon Rising:] Nonstop action...there are enough cliff-hangers for a dozen Saturday serials. Michael Murphy is cool, brainy, sexy, and valiant! -- New York Daily News [for Babylon Rising:] Vivid, fast-paced -- Entertainment Weekly
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Format:Paperback
I thoroughly enjoyed both this and the first book in this series, BUT both books for me were let down badly by the ending. You were pulled along on a real rollercoaster ride of a story in both, but 6 pages from the end of this one, I had an idea this one was once again going to leave me as the first had - wondering why the ending is so weak given the potential available for a much more hard hitting one. This book sees the intrepid explorer Murphy once again heading out on a hugely dangerous expedition to boldly go where nobody had ever gone before, to track down the infamous "Noah's Ark", and it holds to much of the current knowledge about the ark and its likely size, shape and location etc. Once again, the forces of evil are out in force, and you get drawn into their plan wondering why they are so determined to get the info on the ark, and also how they intend on doing it. But even here the storyline is much weaker than in the first book, but riveting nonetheless. Its just rare to get to the end of such an enjoyable book and be left going "Is that it?" but don't let that stop you if you enjoy this type of fiction. Just don't expect it to be up to the Left Behind's quality of writing :(.
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The Biblical-based scenario is where this book stands out, and it's an entertaining adventure story. Some of the historical information is fascinating. Roger Weston, author of The Golden Catch
Format:Paperback
"The Secret on Ararat" is the sequel to "Babylon Rising", a book I remember as a silly but pretty entertaining book. It's well known that Tim LaHaye doesn't do the actual writing on his fiction books. He outlines the story and so on but the writing is done by the co-author. Here, LaHaye has a new co-writer, Bob Phillips. He seems to have written quite a lot of books but as far as I can see, no works of fiction before this one. So, what we have here is a novel by two non-fiction writers. It doesn't work. The story is poorly structured, with inconsistencies in continuity and an ending that's a big anticlimax that leaves subplots unresolved. And I understand this is a Christian novel and the authors want to get a Christian message across, but it's way overdone here. Apparently the authors were unable to get their message across in the main plot so they introduce a completely irrelevant subplot about an FBI agent who seeks spiritual guidance from the main character. As if this distraction from the story wasn't enough, we get another subplot about the FBI agent's daughter going to Bible camp with her friends. The authors also go to great lenghts to preach against evolution. None of this ever ties into the main plot of the book and is just distracting and completely irrelevant. The story seems to be there just as an excuse for the authors to preach. And because of this, the main plot moves very slowly and doesn't really get going until the last half of the book. When it does, there are some decent action sequences, but then the ending comes very quickly and doesn't really resolve anything.
This is a very amaterusih book. I'm surprised it was published by a big publisher. Not recommended. 1,5 stars for occasional entertainment.
This is a very amaterusih book. I'm surprised it was published by a big publisher. Not recommended. 1,5 stars for occasional entertainment.
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An exciting sequel to the first book, with solid building of characters developed in the first book
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