Dictionary of the Khazars (M) (Vintage International)

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Summary: The Emperor Has No Clothes!
Review: Why is everyone afraid to say the truth? This book is a complete waste of money and time. Any 10th grader can throw words on paper and create a "postmodern" book without having to exert the brain-cells to put together a real plot & characters. It makes me angry when someone does this and has critics fawning all over him & calling it a bestseller. It is a slap in the face to the legions of real writers who have crafted real novels, and have been unable to get published because their subject matter is "commercially risky" (for example, an obscure empire called Khazaria). Oh, by the way, this book is also an insult to the REAL Khazars, who were not magicians or circus freaks the way this book paints them. I belong to the yahoo group 'khazar fiction.com' and we have had people ask us about the Khazar "dream-hunters" and other ridiculous concepts engendered by Pavic's book. It is enough of a tragedy that Stalin tried his best to erase all evidence of the Khazars from this earth; now Pavic has further obfuscated Khazar studies with this travesty. If you want to read about Khazaria, read The Rabbi King.