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Title: The Last Day
Author: James Landis
Narrator: Bruce Turk
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-01-09
Publisher: Random House Audio
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
The Last Day answers questions and asks many more. Armed with a sniper's rifle and his deeply held faith, Specialist Pease travels across ideological borders and earns an appreciation for his enemy's culture and for what connects us all as human beings. "War doesn't test your faith in Jesus," Warren comes to realize. "It tests your faith in yourself."
Upon returning home, he spends an entire day with Jesus, visiting and contemplating his own life with fresh eyes and a willing heart. He examines his relationship to those he loves, and grapples with the pain he has been carrying inside since the death of his mother when he was just a boy.
This extraordinary work of compassion and healing grace combines the themes of religion, war, and poetry in a way that is wholly original and unforgettable. It will resonate with skeptics and believers, and be shared and discussed between friends and among families.
Critic Reviews:
"It's tough to do a guy-meets-Jesus book and not be too pious for some and/or too heretical for others. [James] Landis walks a line somewhere between in this ambitious and lyrical story of a young veteran returning to his New Hampshire home from the Iraq War. (Publishers Weekly)
Members Reviews:
Interesting story...worth reading.
Interesting story...it takes you to the hell that was Iraq from a soldier's perspective. It also kindled my interest in the poetry of Emily Dickinson. I had forgotten how great her poetry was. Still is.
Five Stars
nice book. enjoyed it.
Do you know Him?
James Landis has woven a tale around one of the greatest challenges in the Christian faith....that God descends to us, walks with us, and even carries us when we can not reach Him. Jesus comes to the main character, Warren, as a warm, humorous, ordinary man that helps him come to peace with different roles and relationships in his life. It is Warren's story that unfolds on the beautiful sea coast of New Hampshire and in the war in Iraq, but it is Jesus that desires to be known to Warren, his family, his friends, to us and to the author. This book is best read in a thoughtful and reflective way-- always pondering the real question---- Not do I recognize Him, but do I know Him ?
Didn't Meet Expectations.
If you haven't read 'The Shack' or much Christian fiction then this book would rate 4 Stars. Maybe less since there is excessive 'flashback' scenes, detracting from the plot.
Personally, I search out 'speculative' Christian fiction and fantasy books. After reading the jacket intro I had hoped to hear Jesus's answer to pointed questions, especially about war (and/or the Iraq war in specific.) Don't expect much here. The author insinuates the continuing false argument that Iraq had a hand in 9-11. Also snipers (and US troops) only kill bad people. He states this multiple times. I had the impression that War, his father and Jesus were card carrying NRA members.
A reminder for the non-christian dogma informed: A "believer" is PRE-forgiven for anything he does here on the earth plane. So a character who committed suicide in the story is in heaven. Drop a bomb or two on farmers, no problem.
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Title: The Last Day
Author: James Landis
Narrator: Bruce Turk
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-01-09
Publisher: Random House Audio
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
The Last Day answers questions and asks many more. Armed with a sniper's rifle and his deeply held faith, Specialist Pease travels across ideological borders and earns an appreciation for his enemy's culture and for what connects us all as human beings. "War doesn't test your faith in Jesus," Warren comes to realize. "It tests your faith in yourself."
Upon returning home, he spends an entire day with Jesus, visiting and contemplating his own life with fresh eyes and a willing heart. He examines his relationship to those he loves, and grapples with the pain he has been carrying inside since the death of his mother when he was just a boy.
This extraordinary work of compassion and healing grace combines the themes of religion, war, and poetry in a way that is wholly original and unforgettable. It will resonate with skeptics and believers, and be shared and discussed between friends and among families.
Critic Reviews:
"It's tough to do a guy-meets-Jesus book and not be too pious for some and/or too heretical for others. [James] Landis walks a line somewhere between in this ambitious and lyrical story of a young veteran returning to his New Hampshire home from the Iraq War. (Publishers Weekly)
Members Reviews:
Interesting story...worth reading.
Interesting story...it takes you to the hell that was Iraq from a soldier's perspective. It also kindled my interest in the poetry of Emily Dickinson. I had forgotten how great her poetry was. Still is.
Five Stars
nice book. enjoyed it.
Do you know Him?
James Landis has woven a tale around one of the greatest challenges in the Christian faith....that God descends to us, walks with us, and even carries us when we can not reach Him. Jesus comes to the main character, Warren, as a warm, humorous, ordinary man that helps him come to peace with different roles and relationships in his life. It is Warren's story that unfolds on the beautiful sea coast of New Hampshire and in the war in Iraq, but it is Jesus that desires to be known to Warren, his family, his friends, to us and to the author. This book is best read in a thoughtful and reflective way-- always pondering the real question---- Not do I recognize Him, but do I know Him ?
Didn't Meet Expectations.
If you haven't read 'The Shack' or much Christian fiction then this book would rate 4 Stars. Maybe less since there is excessive 'flashback' scenes, detracting from the plot.
Personally, I search out 'speculative' Christian fiction and fantasy books. After reading the jacket intro I had hoped to hear Jesus's answer to pointed questions, especially about war (and/or the Iraq war in specific.) Don't expect much here. The author insinuates the continuing false argument that Iraq had a hand in 9-11. Also snipers (and US troops) only kill bad people. He states this multiple times. I had the impression that War, his father and Jesus were card carrying NRA members.
A reminder for the non-christian dogma informed: A "believer" is PRE-forgiven for anything he does here on the earth plane. So a character who committed suicide in the story is in heaven. Drop a bomb or two on farmers, no problem.