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The West is merely a bystander-an unwary yet complicit casualty of a rivalry that is raging in Islam over who will write the next chapter in its history" (p. 248). But Aslan writes not just to inform in his introduction he admits that "this book is, above all else, an argument for reform" in this "magnificent yet misunderstood faith." In his view, contemporary Islam is best understood not in terms of its ostensible conflict with the Christian west, but within its own widely competing visions of itself: "There is one thing that cannot be overemphasized: What is taking place now within the Muslim world is an internal conflict between Muslims, not an external battle between Islam and the West. Reza Aslan was born in Iran but has lived most of his life in America, positioning him nicely to write this readable introduction to the history, practices, teachings, and contemporary challenges of Islam. 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Penelope Douglas is a full-time writer living in Las Vegas with her husband and their daughter. InfluencesApocalyptica, Three Days Grace, Five Finger Death Punch, Breaking Benj. Or right under my nose, and I wouldn’t even know it 作者简介īorn in Dubuque, Iowa, The United States February 01 I should’ve gotten his number or picture or something. Did he die? Get arrested? Knowing Misha, neither would be a stretch. Name’s Ryen, loves Gallo’s pizza, and worships her iPhone. Until I run across a photo of a girl online. No social media, no phone numbers, no pictures. She’s the only one who keeps me on track, talks me down, and accepts everything I am. Sometimes there’s one a week or three in a day, but I need them. Her letters are always on black paper with silver writing. Whether or not Eminem is the greatest rapper ever…Īnd that was the start. And in no time at all, we were arguing about everything. It didn’t take long for us to figure out the mistake. My teacher, believing Ryen was a boy like me, agreed. Thinking I was a girl, with a name like Misha, the other teacher paired me up with her student, Ryen. In fifth grade, my teacher set us up with pen pals from a different school. I can’t help but smile at the words in her letter. In fact, the dragons of Pyrrhia have been tearing each other to shreds for 20 years now, all because of a three-way succession crisis in one of the kingdoms, or rather queendoms – the SandWings, whose last queen was assassinated by a scavenger (i.e., human). And as a rule, dragons aren't very nice people. Be advised, humans in this book are depicted as puny, no-account vermin, only a little more dangerous than other prey species to the point-of-view characters (you know, dragons). It starts with a handsomely illustrated map of Pyrrhia, a world ruled by dragons, and a guide to the different kinds of dragons making up that world. Now that I've read this first book in the "Wings of Fire" series, I totally want to read them all. What begins as a homicidal Watership Down eventually resonates with echoes of GÅnter Grass, Umberto Eco, Hitchcock, and Spiegelman. Though the identification of the murderer may seem anticlimactic, the mysteries of motivation lead to a darkly effective conclusion. Francis's further investigations-his meetings with computer-literate Pascal and ``satanic mammoth'' Kong his inadvertent peek at a rally, highlighted by the faithful's repeated plunges into electrical currents, venerating the mythic ancestor Claudandus his discovery of Professor Julius Preterius' ten- year-old journal record of fiendish experiments on cats and his sickening plunge into a hidden shrine of corpses that reveals that the killer has dispatched hundreds of victims-only deepen the mystery for his fellow felines, though human readers will detect unnerving parallels with Nazi experiments in eugenics and their poisonous political legacy. Soon after Francis, the fastidious narrator, is brought to a new neighborhood by his dimwitted owner Gustav, he finds the gruesomely slashed corpse of another cat and learns from his crippled friend Bluebeard that Sascha is only the latest victim of a killer who's claimed at least three others. Not your ordinary detective story: in this 1989 German first novel of murder, mutilation, and vengeance, the victims, the detective, the killer, and the suspects are all cats. |