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Paperback Dear Al-Qaeda: Letters to the World's Most Notorious Terror Organization Book

ISBN: 0977770915

ISBN13: 9780977770915

Dear Al-Qaeda: Letters to the World's Most Notorious Terror Organization

What started as the angry scribblings of a caterer in Florida evolved into much more as the infamous Al-Qaeda soon became Scott Creney's closest confidante in this accidental memoir of letters to the world's most notorious terror organization.


Scott lived in Florida in 2004 and worked as a caterer. In a world where nothing seemed to make sense anymore, and even television seemed like another hostile face of humanity, Scott began writing to someone whom he imagined was as bitter and confused as he: Al-Qaeda. Alone, in debt and utterly broke, Scott's day-to-day struggles to stay afloat, both financially and mentally, are a fascinating look at America from an outsider's perspective.


Through engaging and at times disarmingly beautiful prose, Scott represents the voice of a new class of Americans--college-educated, but in debt and often unemployed. He is a member of an emerging generation of Americans who are worse-off than their parents, and who are struggling just to clear the poverty line. He puts his finger on the pulse of what it means to be an American, and how confused those meanings have become to all of us.

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All American Angst

I expected a quick, funny read, and got more than I'd hoped for. It's a goofy gimmick - a clever underachiever gets less than he wanted from life and kvetches to a famous terrorist organization - but as we proceed, the anger, arrogance and shock humor slowly give way to deep sadness and cold, clear insight. Creney has a playful, conversational style reminiscent of the best stuff in zines, and he can write alienation without romanticizing it. If future social historians want to know how it felt to be a lonely, pissed off, downwardly mobile Joe during the Bush years, they can consider this recommended.

Unexpectedly funny and sad

With a title like this, I really wasn't sure what to expect, and I think I would have been surprised no matter what. Creney's writing is always evocative, whether he's talking about the absurd parade of Americana in Florida or the heart-wrenching personal problems he's going through. With each turn of the page I found myself laughing and, on occasion, also being deeply moved by sorrow. This book isn't about politics or terror, it's about life.
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