Book Review: "The Harbinger," by Jonathan Cahn

My brother doesn't read. He just doesn't. So when he started talking about a book he was reading, and one with a Biblical slant to it at that, of course I had to read it to see what made it worth it to him.
"The Harbinger" is about prophecies against ancient Israel (and their outcomes) that ring frighteningly close to modern-day America. The primary verse used it Isaiah 9:10: "The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with hewn stone; the sycamores have been cut down, but we will plant cedars in their place." Many times since 9/11 have our political leaders used this verse as a way to inspire the nation. Only problem is that this isn't a promise; it's a curse: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=is%209:8-21&version=NIV. Now, any time you have prophecy-centered literature, you have to remember that it's one person's interpretation, but it's crazy the parallels he draws from it. He's got everything from the turning away of America from GOD to the collapse of the Towers to the Tree of Hope at Ground Zero to the Recession to quotes from various politicians (including George Washington) and more. It's crazy. Very interesting stuff.
One thing, though, is that in the book his main character (a journalist who is learning all this stuff) is told to put it into a novel format because then it would reach more people. There is probably truth to that (it was a New York Times Best Seller), but I wish he had written it as non-fiction. The subject is interesting, but the writing is terrible. Several times I had to stop reading just because I couldn't take any more of its poor quality. However, I can't complain about that too much, I suppose, since it got my brother to read, and something Bible-related at that.
I'll recommend it, as long as you remember to focus on the content, not the style.