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Aaron And Ahmed (2011)

by Jay Cantor(Favorite Author)

3.12 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1401211860 (ISBN13: 9781401211868)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Vertigo

review 1: Reading this lame excuse for a graphic novel reminds me of my experience with the Matrix series. While the first one is a pretty good movie, though it most certainly doesn't deserve half the accolades it receives for its less than deep philosophy. While I digress from what might seem an unnecessary addendum, what makes the first Matrix movie of the series a good movie is that while it attempts to have some deep ideas behind it, it doesn't try to hard along these lines. This is the failing of the sequels, Reloaded and Revolutions, and shockingly similar, the failure of this abortion of a graphic novel. It tries too hard to be too deep when nothing it adds or expounds upon is really all that profound. The author reminds of the pseudo-intellectuals you meet in college who nam... moree drop big words and ideas but, when pressed about them, are proven to be the vacuous and utterly inane individuals they are because they're just stupid. Sure enough like the aforementioned pseduo-intellectuals, the author drops big words like memes and imperialism but, with no understanding of the immense historical and psychogical impacts or meanings of these terms. Moreover, in a graphic novel which evidently, as I can only assume on the authors part, is meant to be realistic, the whole aside with the hashish smoking old man of the mountain being nothing more than an actual historical legend, is not only offensive, to Muslims and inhabitants of the Middle East, but comes across as way too esoteric a la some science fiction bullshit for a piece of literature that attempts to take place in the REAL WORLD . Bernard Lewis has an excellent tract about the ACTUAL history of the assassin sect that anyone should read to learn the truth. Although the author has a clear and retarded liberal bias in this work, "dur-hur" Middle Eastern people are just like us, it's highly offensive and insensitive to dip into such puerile orientalist fantasies. Finally the whole homosexual subplot, that was conveniently added at the end seems nothing more than an unnecessary and insipid addendum that had no place in this work other than to once more manifest this authors retarded liberal sensibilities that yes, of course, there are homosexuals in the middle east and they want to be honest about it. PLEASE I can't inveigh against reading this piece of trash enough. What seemed as an edgy and interesting graphic novel I picked up at my local library, instead turned out to be an insipid, delusional liberal fantasy replete with homosexual undertones, a pro-multicultural bias, and despite its intentions to be a realistic and a genuine portrayal of Middle-Eastern people, instead it descends, almost predictably, into oriental delusions and inane ramblings on what a meme is and how it can be used as a weapon. Clearly the author knows nothing about the actual history of the Middle-East and all he knows about memes he probably got from skimming the Wikipedia page on it. What a tool.Don't waste your time reading this piece of liberal diarrhea. there are plenty of grahpic novels of a political nature that are much better. Check out my Goodreads account for some of those.
review 2: What starts off as a seemingly cliched critique of Gitmo, quickly turns very bizzare...unfortunately, it just stays as weird, rather than gripping. The love story between the two main protagonists, while being odd as being between an interegator and his prisoner (and then oddly flipping), never really feels compelling, or even interesting. I usually like weird and different, but this also stayed flat, despite its attempts (or perhaps because of their inadequacies) to tackle the big questions of self, religion, and love. less

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