Anyone familiar with the Left Behind books?

"Left Behind" and Hal Lindsey's book cover the same apocalyptic books but they are unrelated works. Lindsey produced a non-fiction book promoting his particular view of the "end times". The "Left Behind" series is fiction, based on an extremely literal reading of Revelation, Daniel and a few other books. Some people may regard it as "fun" but the authors and the majority of readers likely take it very seriously, as a plausible scenario of how their eschatological beliefs would play out. It's like a full, coherent visual integration of all the confusing symbolic events and images in the books, a fantasy portrayed in a realistic way, less ambiguous and more entertaining than the original. Never mind that it completely violates the authors' original intentions.