Would you read a book where someone attempting to destroy a tower is a plot point?

In my novel, a group attempts to blow up a huge tower at the center of town, though they fail in the end. Would you be willing to read a book like this, or would 11 years still be considered too soon?

I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand. It depends on the tone, the style, the quality of the writing and the point the book was trying to make.

I suppose it would depend on why they are trying to blow it up and whether that was the focus of the plot or just a side bit.

Off the top of my head the answer was yes.

Of course, if it's really interesting. I can picture this as a really fun story while the main characters actually have more serious reasons than destroying the thing for the fun of it.

I honestly had to ask someone what happened 11 years ago that might be similar. On the other hand, I was 3 at the time, so maybe that's just me. I think it would be fine as long as you aren't, say, specifically trying to compare the two things...

If it was well written I would read it.

I might draw the connection, but I would be reading the story for the suspense and plot.

It wouldn't be the first time the plot has been used, similar plots have been around long before 9/11. And there will be similar plots in the years to come.

For any story you write, real events may happen that seem similar to your story, before or after you write them. Or even as you write them.

Tom Clancy has a book where someone crashes a jetliner into a government building, and this was published several years before 9/11. I first read the book after 9/11, and it didn't affect my enjoyment of the book. I thought, "I wonder if this book had any influence on what happened on 9/11." But the thing is, I did enjoy the book. Even if it had been published a year after 9/11, I still wouldn't have had a problem with reading it, it was a good book and a good story, and the incident fit the story.

As long as your story stands by itself and isn't just trying to tie into the 9/11 events, I won't have a problem with it. Make the plotting good, let me care about the characters, and give me a good read and I will read the book.

And I wouldn't be thinking it was just a knock-off. I might think it might have been inspired by the events, but I would be looking for a good suspense story.

A lot of stories have been inspired by real events.

My two cents.