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$ Fundamentalist Terror Revolts: A Novel Inspired by the Murders of an Australian Nurse in Saudi and of Pricess Diana in Paris
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$ Fundamentalist Terror Revolts: A Novel Inspired by the Murders of an Australian Nurse in Saudi and of Pricess Diana in Paris by Mary Braveheart |
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Pages 456
Dimensions: Length: 9" Width: 6.04" Height: 1.14"
Weight: 1.59 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Nov 1, 2001
ISBN 0759613370
EAN 9780759613379
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 | questionable review Mar 19, 2008 |
Readers should know that Colin Campbell wrote this book under the pseudonym "Mary Braveheart." The glowing review was written by the author.
I have not read the book. | | |  | Brilliant Novel About War on Terror Apr 19, 2002 |
On reading the first chapter of the 450 page novel, "$ Fundamentalist Terror Revolts" by Mary Braveheart, I at first found it difficult getting into the unique style. I haven't come across anything quite like it. I normally read Douglas Adams, "Hitch Hikers Guide to Galaxy" and "Lord of the Rings" type books. I picked it up and found it immediately readable. I still couldn't put it down despite all the distractions, till I had finished it. I was really surprised that I got into the story, the style and the theme so easily. The style is very descriptive and interesting. There is much carefully engineered satire and intense metaphor hidden within the easily read plot.
I loved the premise of the story and the main character and heroine Rosie McDonald, code named 121. She's descended from the Celtic and Cherokee chieftains and goes to the Middle East to stop the terrorists getting control of the oil and nuclear weapons.
The book is so full of details about the Middle East that it has to be based on the author's experiences there. I noted that it was inspired by the murders of Princess Diana and an Australian nurse in Saudi, by the Middle East Crisis, the Gulf war, the Al Khobar bombing and other similar terrorist atrocities. The plot revolves around international terrorism, action, sex, murder, royalty, religion, deceit and the fight for the control of oil and nuclear weapons. The heroine's struggle is a crusade of good over evil, of woman over man, of Christianity over Islam, paganism against eco-terrorism.
For me the book ranks with George Orwell's "Animal Farm" or Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." The poetry quotations are like a potted history of English literature and fit in well with the story line. The heroine's emblem and that of the Virgin Mary and of New York City is the rose. The path of its cultivation is followed in poetic and prophetic fashion. The story is permeated with the branches, twigs and thorns of the flower traced through early human history growing into today's civilisation. The book made me think about our own values, our own ideas, our own liberty and freedom of expression and where we're actually coming from and whether liberal values can be applied to the world of international terrorism.
It's realistically scary and after all that's happened recently it is "of the moment" type of book - a real eye opener and should be read by all those women thinking of converting to Islam and those affected by terrorism in all its guises.
The book has deep underlying issues that are carefully concealed in a well-written interesting story line and plot. It leaves a lasting optimistic impression and is easily read.
I was touched that the book was dedicated to the victims and families of terrorist atrocities and to the disinherited native peoples of the world, and to some extent foretells what the terrorist mind- set is capable of.
I'm still left wondering who the author really is and would love to meet her.
I'm now reading it again just in case I missed anything. I came to realise only at the end what the significance of the $ sign was and what the curse of the desert rose really is. I'll leave other readers to make their own discoveries, to walk their own path, to begin their own adventure. A novel not to be overlooked by those with rose coloured spectacles or to put it another way a rose by any other name still smells sweet. | | | Write your own review about $ Fundamentalist Terror Revolts: A Novel Inspired by the Murders of an Australian Nurse in Saudi and of Pricess Diana in Paris
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