This is a strong work of literary fiction that didn’t strike any special chord with me. I’d tried unsuccessfully to read it several times in the past, but made another attempt this year and can report that it gathers steam as it goes, though it took me a couple hundred pages to start really enjoying...
If I was reviewing this book purely on the quality of the writing, it'd be a solid five stars. It's simply astounding. But it loses one simply because, even though I enjoyed it, reading felt like an absolute chore. I swear, it took me six thousand years to finish this damn book.Part of this is due t...
Anyone who has been paying attention knows I love the Man Booker Prize. I love the contest and I enjoy reading the books nominated. It's the one prize that I actively pay attention to (two weeks until the 2015 long list is announced, by the way). I'm excited to open any Booker winner. It's no surp...
Salman Rushdie is a wonderful writer, and it's easy to see why this novel has received so many accolades. My own enjoyment of the book, though, was hampered by my dislike of the almost rambling prose and by my ignorance of a lot of India's history.
This masterpiece uses a matriarchal-feeling jam-factory frame story to portion out the unruly high drama of its protagonist's astonishing biography, itself a gloriously messy and multi-layered metaphor for India under the rule of Indira Gandhi, who appears as a demonic child-killer.I just loved the ...
Apparently I am in the minority in the opinion that this is mostly pretentious bullshit. Of course Salman Rushdie writes well. Anyone can see that he has an amazing ability with words and descriptions that describe situations and places to a T. But, but, but it so unbelievably boring to read this...
Warning: Although I will try to restrain myself, I may gush without warning. I was entranced from the first sentences: I was born in the city of Bombay… once upon a time. No, that won’t do, there’s no getting away from the date: I was born in Doctor Narlikar’s Nursing Home on August 15th, 1947. An...
Mágico. Ve la historia de la independencia de la India desde la vida personal de una familia a lo largo de tres generaciones. Las descripciones son impresionantes, reales, vívidas. Si no quieres leer algo tan "elevado" como The Satanic Verses pero empezar a leer a Rushdie, ésta es la opción. Además,...
I was not even halfway through when i gave up reading this novel.I got really fed up, annoyed and lost all my patience.This doesn't mean the novel was very bad it was because Salman Rusdie's way of writing was very high(????) that i had to read it twice to understand the characters and the story ben...
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