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The Blood of the Lamb (the Thomas F. Monteleone novel)

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Krisnack from Elsewhere Since: Jan, 2001
#1: Feb 22nd 2011 at 9:18:44 PM

Has any one else read this? It's a good old religious horror with more then a few doses of nightmare fuel unleaded. The premise is simple, a priest by the name of Peter Carenza (after accidentally zapping murderous mugger with about 400,00 volts) discovers that he was in fact cloned from Jesus, and goes on to develop miraculous powers, drawing the ire of a corrupt megachurch leader and the attention of a pair of Jesuit assassins. He tries to keep from going off the deep end, but after he kills his best friend in jealous rage, things start to go downhill]]. Eventually, by the end of the book it's pretty clear that Peter has lost all inhibitions (given that he, you know, killed the pope) and is ready to embrace his role at The Antichrist. Oh, Crap! doesn't even begin to cover it.

It's a fairly obscure book, but in my opinion it's well worth reading.

Apparently there are some things our rivals do more efficiently than we by not having to stop every five minutes for a consensus.-Worldmaker
Alkthash Was? Since: Jan, 2001
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#2: Feb 26th 2011 at 4:00:52 PM

A Jesus clone? Maybe in a universe filled with ridiculous things taken seriously all the time like Marvel or DC comics could I take that seriously. On it's own though it just makes me giggle and replace his name with Clone!Jesus when reading about it.

Krisnack from Elsewhere Since: Jan, 2001
#3: Feb 27th 2011 at 6:04:22 PM

Yeah, when Peter finds out that he's been cloned from the Messiah he doesn't know whether to be laugh or be shocked at the blasphemy.

Then things start getting serious. Really serious. All in all, it's the best take on on the biblical apocalypse genre I've read.

Apparently there are some things our rivals do more efficiently than we by not having to stop every five minutes for a consensus.-Worldmaker
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#4: Aug 18th 2014 at 11:32:46 AM

I gotta say, I really enjoyed reading this novel. It's much better than Left Behind in my opinion. For starters, the characters here are much more believable and likable. Peter Carenza doesn't just openly believe he is christ at first, nor does he turn into an arrogant jackass at the drop of a hat. Blood of the Lamb actually develops the character of Father Peter and slowly but surely mutates him into the antichrist.

I also like how gritty this book is. The Left Behind books always felt....safe to me. I know that's kind of stupid of me too say but I always got the feeling that the authors were being restrained, that they had to make it violent but not too violent. Racy, but not too racy. Monteleone on the other hand, doesn't even try to appeal to the "safe" crowd. It's definitely one of the grittier books I'v read in a while. I also like that it actually makes the Antichrist scary!

When Peter starts turning, the other characters begin to notice....and they actually don't like it. Some actually try to fight Peter's charisma. It doesn't work out but it's a much better effort than in Left Behind, where most of the characters didn't do much.

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