PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES AND SHIPPED IN STURDY CARDBOARD PACKAGING! So phrases like 'hit paydirt', ' ya got a good gig going man' and 'moseying along' are liberally sprinkled throughout the book, making me cringe.' BRAND NEW! GIFT QUALITY BOOKS! DIRECT FROM THE PUBLISHER! The authors are also fond of using American slang, as if trying self-consciously to sound cool and hip to appeal to a younger audience of cool dudes. There's also an Australian cab driver whose accent gets completely mangled in a feeble attempt to reproduce it! For a story with so many characters of different nationalities, it might have been an idea to find a narrator who was good at accents. All the women in the story get the same manly voice. The narrator seems incapable of using any accent or voice tone other than macho Marlboro-Man American, although the text gives clear directions that some of the characters have a strong Hebrew, Greek or Israeli accent or speak in broken English. I love how the authors have followed the Bible so closely and literally throughout the series, really bringing it alive. There follows a series of horrific biblical plagues to 'indoore', including horrible demon scorpion locusts. If this is going to affect you the way it has me, I recommend giving the whole series a miss unless you REALLY REALLY want to find out what happens in the end times or are actually American yourself! The trib saints meet in 'Jeroozlum' for an amazing rally with Tsion Ben Judah, who is almost a 'deeidy' to all his followers. I don't think I've heard an 'h' throughout this whole book. 'Afteree braadderrr waadderrr', he went to speak to the doctor. Rayford helps look after his pregnant daughter Chloe. Toward turned into 'toe-urrrd', futile is pronounced 'feudal', and horror is 'harrrrr'.

Some words sound really strange to my (admittedly British) ears. He sounds like a deep grainy-voiced voiced TV ad presenter selling cowboy liquor. Not sure what that's about, unless it's one of the authors who is dying of old age? The narrator's exaggerated American accent is sometimes very distracting. Each book is introduced and appended by an ancient dude who sounds like a 100 year old emphysema patient.

Another gripping book in the Left Behind series, which I've been listening to day and night.

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