![]() Iram became known to Western literature with the translation of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights. I did look up Irem, The City of Pillars, online and found that it is mentioned in the Qu’ran and is supposedly the city of pillars that was so wicked it was smitten by the prophet Hod and God then driven into the sands of the Rub al Khali dessert – never to be seen again. ![]() By the end of the book I began to wonder if the main character was sane at all or ever had been. As I kept reading I began to see a man looking for answers but one who is taken from a straight arrow to an unethical rather paranoid man so intent on his goal and self preservation that nobody and nothing was valued any more. At first I thought this was a book similar to The Celestine Prophecy type search to find the answer sort of book – a quest for knowledge. I started out reading the confession of man but what was he confessing to? As I read further I realized this man was one who had been in the gerbil’s wheel racing to bigger and better lawyerly type things only to have seemingly randomly received a document that would change his life. This review was written for LibraryThing Member Giveaways.Having won this book from Librarything’s giveaway page I wasn’t really sure what to expect. ![]()
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