Ok, so I chose The Looming Tower for my non-fiction book. What this book is about is the rise of Al-Quaeda and how they lead to the attack on 9/11. I chose this book because I thought it would be interesting to learn more details about something that has been such a big deal in my life and I although I heard a lot on the news about it, I really didn't know as much as I should about it.
In the first part of this book the author, Lawrence Wright, focuses mainly on the character Syyid Qutb. Qutb was a popular writer in the middle east and he moved to America. Basicly the first 40 pages takes you through his life and makes you grow to like him. When he moves back to the middle east he is hung, and later you learn that he is one of Osama bin Ladin's role models.
It's not until about page 70 that Wright even mentions Bin Ladin's name, I found this kind of suprising because since the book is about 9/11 I figured the very first page would be about him. However Wright takes his time in introducing Bin Ladin, he writes a lot about his father and what a rich guy he was. As Bin ladin grows up though the story gets a lot more complicated and you are introduced to many more characters and it was hard to keep up with once in awhile. Up until very close to the end though the book is all about religion and how close Bin Ladin is to his religion and what he does to stay close to it and what he makes his family do for religion too.
Although this book was a lot to read, overall I thought the reading style was very easy to read. I kept up with the story, for the most part, and was suprised at how much I didint know about Al-Qaeda and 9/11.
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