Review: World War III from the Inside - a Winner
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 3, 2010
Amsterdam 2012Don't open this book until you have a lo-o-o-ng amount of free time in front of you. Otherwise you'll find yourself doing what I was doing this morning: trying to tie your shoes and read at the same time.A realistic, believable, nightmare. One of the best novels I have read in quite a long time. The opener hints at a small amount of overly workshopped material, but by the fourth page you're into a major page-turner. In the entire book I found four misused words and one misspelled foreign word, but I've been an editor and writing teacher more than twenty-five years. I don't think anybody else would notice them.Each peak leads inexorably toward the next peak, so that it's very hard for me to say anything substantive that wouldn't be a spoiler. But maybe this, about a quarter of the way in, will work:"This is great, I thought, my boyfriend is being held as a terrorism suspect, my brother is a Nazi, and my sister is a Muhammad groupie." A few pages before or after this, the narrator refers to her parents as liberals. When the book begins, the narrator is a prototypical rich liberal college kid on her European backpacking tour with her boyfriend. When the book ends . . . .No, you're going to have to go and read it for yourself.