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==== Pacing ==== One reason cited for the books' popularity is the quick pacing and action, and that they reflect the public's overall concern and fascination with the Apocalypse as portrayed in the biblical book of Revelation.<ref name="Davidson" /> [[Michelle Goldberg]] has written that, "On one level, the attraction of the ''Left Behind'' books isn't that much different from that of, say, [[Tom Clancy]] or [[Stephen King]]. The plotting is brisk and the characterizations [[Manichaeism|Manichaean]]. People disappear and things blow up."<ref name="goldberg" /> The ''New York Times'' also compared the series to Clancy's works.<ref>{{cite book |author1=LaHaye |first=Tim |url=https://archive.org/details/authorizedleftbe00laha |title=The Authorized Left Behind Handbook |author2=Jenkins |first2=Jerry B. |author3=Swanson |first3=Sandi |date=2005 |publisher=[[Tyndale House Publishers]] |isbn=9780842354400 |page=[https://archive.org/details/authorizedleftbe00laha/page/n345 336] |url-access=registration |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> However, those views are not universally shared. Other reviewers have called the series "almost laughably tedious" and "fatuous and boring."<ref name="dreyfuss">{{cite news |author=Dreyfuss |first=Robert |date=January 28, 2004 |title=Reverend Doomsday: According to Tim LaHaye, the Apocalypse is now |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/5939999/reverend_doomsday/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070806102443/http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/5939999/reverend_doomsday/ |archive-date=August 6, 2007 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]}}</ref><ref name="haber">{{cite news |author=Haber |first=Gordon |date=August 23, 2004 |title=The Ministry of Fear |url=http://www.nysun.com/article/681 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130130134009/http://www.nysun.com/article/681 |archive-date=January 30, 2013 |work=[[New York Sun]]}}</ref>
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