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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
Well, while this post is somewhat obnoxious, I don't recall you ever 'needling' me before. If you have something against me, on the whole, you will need to be a bit less subtle, I missed your previous efforts.
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Needling != having something against a person. As for the post I worried was too close to needling, it was
this.
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Were you angry at me . . .
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I know very little about anyone here. We are hopefully talking about ideas, or at least, if about people in a negative way, about people not present on MobileRead.
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Why are you so full of hate?
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I said I hated this book more than any I can recall. Being able to be say that about one book doesn't make someone full of hate. Substitute "strongly disliked" for "hated," if you prefer.
As far why I didn't like the book, I found it bigoted towards certain religious sects. Some readers will agree with me on that, and some will not.
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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
What bothers me most about Eisenberg's post
Is the blatant inference that every occurrence
Of political bent in a book with endurance
Redeems it as roast or condemns it as toast
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Every occurrence? Where did you get that?
This is a book that centers around a conspiracy in which the evangelical Christians and religious Jews plot to destroy one of the holiest places in Islam, the Dome of the Rock. So it's hardly imaginary to see this book as a political commentary on post-9/11 international relations. Few novels I read strike me as particularly political. This one did.