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great! amazing ( )

Being live with Daniel in the Lion's Den is one exciting story in this continuing series of Murphy's adventures. The book, hinging on a search for the "handwriting on the wall" that Daniel explained to King Nebuchadnezzar, was not as fast paced...nor as interesing to me as the first two books were. ( )

This book was absolutely awful, and made me not want to bother finishing the rest of the series that's out. There was too much forced dialog, and too much relation of Christian=good, everything else=evil. ( )

This is the third book in the Babylon Rising Series and the first one I have read. I hope the first two are better then this one. This book was a fast read for me, one afternoon. Not because it is a page-turner. But this was because of the choice of margins and typeset. In normal typeset the book would be half the number of pages.

This book our hero is Dr. Michael Murphy may be a renowned field archaeologist and professor. The way he is written he is part Indiana Jones and part James Bond. I find the character very unrealistic. Which is a shame for I feel it would have been more exciting a story if he wasn't such a great spy and martial artist.

Now the part of the book that is interesting is our hero's search to find proof positive that the Bible is literal. And we follow him on his quest into ancient Babylon. I do like that he is finding the proof he needs. And that it is part of a test he is not aware of. But the icing on the cake is that after he has seen proof positive, he loses it due to forces outside of his control. It is like OK here is the proof, and convinces the rest of the world it was real.

I found I could start with this book, the third in the series, and not be too lost. But the way this book ends on a cliffhanger. You have to read it before you should read book four. I prefer a series that does build upon the previous books, but can also stand alone in their own right. ( )