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Type Forum greattype — LOVED THIS BOOK!!!! Tackles the ideas of different religion and how they interact. Inaddition it is a great story about survival.

James Griffiths griffinabox — The book that turned me into a pacifist. The entire story is told from the perspective of a soldier who is trapped inside of his own body after a landmine blows off his eyes, nose, lips, ears, arms and legs. More frightening than anything Stephan King could ever come up with.

Ting-tang Wu twu1959 — John Updike has earned a mantel full of awards, including a Pulitzer and a National Book Award. He knows people and he knows how tough even the most mundane lives can be. And Updike knows how to write. At his best when writing of “normal” people living flawed, empathetic lives, Updike stretches himself in his latest novel, “Terrorist.” He writes the story of eighteen-year-old Ahmad Mulloy, the American son of an Egyptian exchange student father who ran off when Ahmad was three without so much as a postcard, and of an Irish-American mother who raised him. Ahmad, a good boy, a quiet boy, has come under the influence of a stern Imam in his hometown of New Prospect, New Jersey, a suburb of New York City. Ahmad flourishes in Islam, the religion of his absent father, and he finds he “loves prayer, the sensation of pouring the silent voice in his head into a silence waiting at his side,” the God of Mohammed. Updike plays the strong influence of Ahmad’s Imam against those of Ahmad’s mother Teresa, Jack Levy, his Jewish high school guidance counselor and Joryleen Grant, an African-American classmate with whom he has developed a mutual attraction. The novel’s title proclaims the direction his story is headed, and somehow Updike manages to get the reader into the head of an America hating, radical Islamic, who is at least somewhat sympathetic. “Terrorist” both indicts America and offers it a dirty, smudged, figurative valentine. Most impressively, John Updike brings us inside a fringe element of Islam and shows vividly why we are hated and why they want us dead; it all makes a convoluted kind of sense, and that makes it scary. P.S. It's been five days since I finished "Terrorist" and I can't put it out of my mind. What I see on the TV news, read in the newspaper and hear at church are colored by it. Radical Islamics are like some Christians, I think. Instead of searching their holy books (Bible/Koran) for meaning and truth and a way to please God, they choose for themselves their own truths and predjudices, and then search their books for justification. We Christians found plenty of justification, particularly the Old Testament, for the crusades, the inquisition, the death camps and witch burning, among others. And today the fringes of our religions can justify anti-semitism, homophobia, wars of freedom, car bombings and mass murder - pretty much whatever we choose - while God mourns our stupidity, loves us, and hopes we will figure it all out.

Maggie Amerine maggieamerine — this was a good book

Magnus Stålgren staalgren — Great book- a real page turner. And I'm usually not big on court room dramas... but it reads like a Sunday night movie of the week... Aw...remember those...