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The End Is Now (2009)

by Rob Stennett(Favorite Author)

3.1 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0310286794 (ISBN13: 9780310286790)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Zondervan

review 1: I expected to read a humorous book about a "pre-test" for the rapture. Instead, I got the whole history of the family that the book revolves around. It was full of convoluted rambling and difficult to follow all the distracting backstory, which made it hard to tell what was happening in the story's present and what had happened in the past (most of which was not related to the story about the rapture at all). I kept flipping pages to try to find the true beginning of the story irrelevant rambling. It wasn't worth sifting through it all to find the real story, so I quit reading. I can't believe a big-name publisher signed this book on, much less didn't edit out all the irrelevant backstory. Glad I got the book free.
review 2: How fitting that I started this book... more last week, and finished it the day before the supposed "rapture" day of May 21, 2011. I'm still here, writing this paltry review, after all, so the world must not have ended.Every day, though, the world as we know it ends, and when we wake up each morning, a new world greets us.So what I'm getting at is that this book, and the whole "rapture on 5/21/2011" really led to a lot of interesting thinking, what with so many proclaiming that the world would end on May 21st. In this novel, a young boy gets lost in a cornfield, has a vision, and once rescued under interesting circumstances, begins to reveal three "signs" that will foretell the end of the world, or the rapture. Others have visions, too, but mostly in reaction to the boy and how they personally interpret what it means to them. His parents have vastly differing ideas of how to handle it all. The locals swing between two vastly different philosophies. Chaos ensues. Occasional hilarity ensues. But in the end, what is most apparent is that whatever kind of person you are, and whatever you hold to be true, has far more influence on individual experience than anything else. Everyone sees what they want to see, they bring to life the beliefs they hold closest. And sometimes they abandon all their beliefs in the end. That's where it gets interesting, in the supposed "end."And there isn't really an end, after all. Much like the doomsday predictions for May 21, 2011, this story ends not at all as any of the characters would have predicted. In fact, many more questions remain. Which is kind of the way life is, after all. less

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