At first I wondered why anyone would want to read 450 pages of torture description but luckily only about 100p of the book was as painful as I had been expecting. Mostly because it pains the reader to think that this is happening all over the world as we speak. And even worse stuff too. Working at Amnesty doesn't make it any easier to deal with the idea of torture either.

Yet, I still wanted to read this because seeing inside the head of an intelligent and educated man experiencing all this shit, yet making fun of things, befriending his guards and contemplating about life, brings the experience more closer in a concrete form. It makes me feel bad that Mohamedoud is still there and that many people still don't get what's wrong with the system. But I now feel the things I work for (human rights and religious equality to mention a few) are all the more important and while my help is very minor, reading this makes me feel like it is the right thing to do to fight ignorance and the utter stupidity of humanity.

I really hope this book finds ppl with prejudices and that they will see more meaning to it than a conspiracy or deceit they often see everywhere else. And I don't mean just Americans but any extremist anywhere.