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Arlsan grips you from the start. Its that simple. It twists you and turns you and makes you want to conspire against General Arslan with the characters.

Arslan is a as cruel as they come. Hes hearltless, shameless,a bisexual rapist, favoring children, and he is a flawless strategist deserving to be with the greatest of military minds.

His sense of humor isnt good, but it makes you laugh nervously anyways.

Engh wrote this as if he were standing there, watching it transpire neutrally. The detail and dialouge is outstanding. This is one for the ages.

Higly Recommended.


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Arslan M J Engh 9780312879105 Books Reviews

An Endorsement For Stockholm Syndrome

There is nothing redeeming in this book. The despot Arslan is quickly portrayed as a despot and pederast. The main character, a townsman who is put under Arslan's rule is at first portrayed as a determined resistance leader, but that soon goes away when Arslan's soldiers who are garrisoned in his home don't beat him and rape his wife. What starts out as a tale of an ordinary man faced with the choice of revolt against tyranny soon devolves into an essay on why one should kowtow to despots instead of resisting them. At every turn the protagonist is given a chance to stand up against Arslan and his regime, granted at great personal cost, and each time the protagonist finds a weak excuse to go along with Arslan, including at on point sheltering him when he is being hunted. Did I mention this is after the protagonist watches as Arslan's soldiers brutally and publicly rape an underage girl and boy in front of the whole town?
This book is dogs***. It plays at telling a tale of resisting despotism and evil, but only succeeds in endorsing the idea that one should comply with the villain to spare others from a more horrible fate. It takes a real piece of work to write a book where you find youreself rooting for the group of highwaymen that are raping their way across the countryside because they believe that it will undo Arslan's forced program of human sterility. There are no redeeming characters in this entire book, once you finish it, you'll be glad its over since neither the villain nor the so-called hero bring anything to the table that is worth rooting for.
I'm sure there's some social commentary message here, but all I took away from it was, hey if some dictator comes into your town, rapes and brutalizes your friends and neighbors, its probably best to just go along with it, because you never know there might be worst people out there.
Like some other reviewers, I bought Arslan on the basis of Orson Scott Card's glowing praise. I found it disappointing. It has its good points, mainly several interesting characters. But the premise was just not believable.
The three main characters, General Arslan, Franklin Bond, and Hunt Morgan, are all well developed and hold your interest. In General Arslan M.J. Engh creates a villain who is complex, both horrifying and fascinating. A well done job.
However, the premise of the story, that a military dictator from an obscure country in central Asia could conquer the United States without a shot being fired just did not work for me. The technical details of how he did it were a little simplistic, but that was not the problem. The central problem in the believability of the book is the author's implicit assumption that everyone in the United States is the sort of passive, unresisting Quisling that the characters Bond and Morgan are. Okay, it's believable that some people would give up without a fight. But everyone? Including everyone in the U.S. armed forces? The book opens with Arslan driving into southern Illinois with a small group of Turkistani soldiers. Unfortunately, southern Illinois is less than 100 miles from Fort Campbell, KY, home of the 101st Airborne Division. Which is still intact. Why doesn't the 101st Airborne send out a squad of helicopter gunships? They could make mincemeat of General Arslan and his regiment in about ten minutes. The author assumes no one has the initiative to do this. Sorry, I couldn't buy that.
Ms Engh is clearly also not an expert in guns. In a crucial early scene, she has Arslan give his handgun to Franklin Bond, challenging Bond to shoot him. Bond doesn't. In the scene, Bond checks to see if the gun is loaded, and later throws the gun and the bullets out the window of the car they are in. Unfortunately, all the technical details of how handguns work are wrong. Handguns are either revolvers or semi-automatic pistols. It's never clear which it is. Ms Engh should have done her research by buying a few gun magazines and learning how guns work. She didn't, unfortunately, and it detracts from the book.
Also, Ms Engh describes the Turkistani soldiers as "professionals," compared to American soldiers, whom she says are not. These "professional" soldiers then proceed to invade an elementary school and rape several 13 year old students. That's professional conduct? What planet do you live on, Ms Engh?
Sorry, I have to give this book a thumbs down.
The characters are forced to fit into a predetermined plot; the story didn't follow naturally. Probably for readers who enjoy books like fifty shades of gray.
This novel is...unique. The story of a Southwest Asian dictator who somehow contrives to conquer America and proceeds to put his stamp on a small American town through a of combination threats and sexual humiliation. It's a tough read sometimes, but well-written.
Arlsan grips you from the start. Its that simple. It twists you and turns you and makes you want to conspire against General Arslan with the characters.

Arslan is a as cruel as they come. Hes hearltless, shameless,a bisexual rapist, favoring children, and he is a flawless strategist deserving to be with the greatest of military minds.

His sense of humor isnt good, but it makes you laugh nervously anyways.

Engh wrote this as if he were standing there, watching it transpire neutrally. The detail and dialouge is outstanding. This is one for the ages.

Higly Recommended.