- Paperback: 148 pages
- Publisher: AuthorHouse (13 May 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1418441023
- ISBN-13: 978-1418441029
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,201,890 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Warning: Philosophical Content-Explicit Ideas-May offend those easily offended. The legend of the Hassan El Sabbah is not as famousas his garden. Sabbah was an entrepreneur of sortsusing the assassin as a tool to gain political influence throughout the MiddleEast. He would use young men by making them smoke hash then allowing them toenter his garden of earthly delights. The young men were told they had enteredparadise and would be expelled if they did not carry out Sabbah'swishes, which were usually to kill someone of relative importance. This tale isnot only a fictional look at Sabbah, but also amind-altering look into America's drug culture and the idea of paradise. Told by a stoner, set over a thousand years ago with an ArabianNights feel to it, the story centers around Emir Abdullah-Harazins(Sabbah) and his infamous garden. It is thestory of only one of his Hashishiyyins (Assassins).
About the Author
Joseph DeMarco was born in New York City; he lived most of his life in Buffalo, NY. He now teaches seventh grade on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. He is also the author of the novels Plague of the Invigilare and At Play in the Killing Fields.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Stoney new book hits shelves,
By A Customer
This review is from: The 4 Hundred and 20 Assassins of Emir Abdullah-Harazins (Paperback)
This is a well thought out and clever book about the American Drug culture. The author combines a fictional history of the Assassin (The Hasan of Sabbah) into everyday american comic book folklore, and the result is The 4 Hundred and 20 Assassins of Emir Abdullah-Harazins. The story follows Anazasi on his quest for paradise into the dark jungles of Harazin's lair, but is really an introspective look at the mind of a 20th century pot smoker. Phish and Dead fans will identify with this quasi-myth about a garden so beautiful and prince so infamous, his very name is synonymous with assassin.
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3.6 out of 5 stars (5 customer reviews) 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Lost in a world I don't understand,
By Jenna - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The 4 Hundred and 20 Assassins of Emir Abdullah-Harazins (Paperback)
Throughout much of this book which was really hard to follow, I felt as if the author skipping around too much. We're in the past, we're in the present, we're at the scene of his mother's death. We (the reader) begin to get confused. Dazed and Confused? I don't think this is done intentionally in what is an awkward read. It is a short awkward read though which is good.
The book is about this obliterated assassin who is picked to go on a mission to kill the King. He (the assassin) has a rather hard time with this task simply because he is never told straight out by anyone to kill the King. He has this dream or you think it's a dream where this giant snake tells him to kill the King but, Abdullah-Harazins the main antagonist never tells Anazasi the assassin to kill the King. We get a sense of maddening as Anazasi falls under the spell of drug use and the reader takes us inside a world I don't understand. This book also seems a little offensive from the perspective of the perfect male fantasy is a paradise cove of a waterpark where the man gets to have an orgy with dozens of young naked women from every ethnic background in the world and sip cognac next to a waterfall afterwards. There were a few good things about it. There was one or two beautiful sentences and I particularly like a lot of the alliteration with the snake, "ASsSsSsASsSsSinS...KkKill the KkKing." 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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420 origin and myth?,
By Kinau - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The 4 Hundred and 20 Assassins of Emir Abdullah-Harazins (Paperback)
This is a well thought out and clever book about the American Drug culture. The author combines a fictional history of the Assassin (The Hasan of Sabbah) into everyday american comic book folklore, and the result is The 4 Hundred and 20 Assassins of Emir Abdullah-Harazins. The story follows Anazasi on his quest for paradise into the dark jungles of Harazin's lair, but is really an introspective look at the mind of a 20th century pot smoker. Phish and Dead fans will identify with this quasi-myth about a garden so beautiful and prince so infamous, his very name is synonomous with assassin.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Pot smoking Assassins,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The 4 Hundred and 20 Assassins of Emir Abdullah-Harazins (Paperback)
420 What is the origin? DeMarco has some fun with this one in this morbid tale about a pot smoking assassin and a garden so beautiful...I guarantee most men would want to enter. The garden is filled with naked women, fruits, and all the marijuana you can smoke. It is based on the life of Hassan El Sabbah, who is credited as being the inventor of the Assassin as a poltical tool throughout the middle east. This will probably be a cult classic in 10 years. I loved it.
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