Escape from Baghdad! | 
""He's a berserker, see?" Dagr said. "With Kinza, *life* is the enemy, really. He wants the world to be still, and when it doesn't comply, he's willing to force it. Don't worry. After a while, it just becomes normal. I always thought violence wasn't the solution. But then, look where we are. It certainly buys you some space. When the rage comes, just stay behind him, that's all. I used to be scared all the time. But even that gets old.""
"I was chased relentlessly, for several lifetimes, until I had covered almost every blade of grass in the world."
"The tapestry [covering the doorway] slowly twitched back into place like an awful sphincter closing."
Today in odd similes.
"“Nobody,” Sabeen said icily, “can be as stupid as you pretend to be, Hoffman. It just isn't physically possible.”"
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"He saw the stark lines of Kinza's face, the desolation contained within.
*Cut off. Unmoored. We are all the same now. Unconnected links, adrift in time. Ghosts, lurking. God has taken back whatever grace he gave us. We have been removed from the tribes of humanity and now flounder purposeless.*"
"As he was propelled into the vortex of the imam's compulsions, it became apparent, too, that his master was insane. It was not the sort of insanity that impinged on competency but, rather, the scouring, scourging hot breath of madness that purified the world into a single terrifying image, like the barbed tongue of a lion scraping off the ghostly remnants of fur, skin, and meat from bleached-white bone. His problem was that he *believed*."
"[American soldiers] were like big, idiot children in their heavy armor and helmets, capable of kindness or casual violence as the mood took them, unreadable, random, terrifying."
Not well known, but really funny black comedy about US invasion of Iraq - kind of Keystone Cops meets Quentin Tarantino. Guest appearance by an insane librarian too. Author just published his second book called The Djinns. Can't wait!
pickThis book was quite a trip. There were a few plot points I didn't expect. It was an action packed read. I'd give it 4 Iraqi flags 😉 🇮🇶🇮🇶🇮🇶🇮🇶
Starting this tonight 👍🏽
