Rich, layered, extremely well-written, Midnight's Children is an intricate and ambitious novel that intertwines a childhood with India's history. Rushdie's writing is lush and dense, often meandering, and sometimes a difficult read, but very worth the time. I felt as if every word was carefully chos...
Do they have exclamation points in Hindi? Or is it just understood that everything in India should be said with an exclamation point?I just finished Midnight's Children.It is the masterpiece of Salman Rushdie.And now I want to end every sentence I write aboutthis author, this book, with an exclamat...
I've brought this up in past reviews of other things, but I feel like what gets neglected the most when "important," "acclaimed," or "literary" novels are being discussed is how much fun many of them are. Midnight's Children is a book that tackles a lot (a whole hell of a lot), much of it dark and u...
I'm going to be honest with you here: if you are looking for a light, fluffy read, don't turn to Midnight's Children. If, however, you are looking for a thought-provoking read which will even make you laugh out loud in some places, I would highly suggest picking this up. I have to say that overall...
--has small spoilers--I found Salman Rushdie’s breakout novel all it was cracked up to be, though it did take me about 50 pages to fully commit. It is dense and circular, eschews some common internal punctuation, and has a fantastic story bedded in sharp detail and joy in the wordsmithing. For a den...
I definitely can understand why Midnight's Children won the Best of the Booker. What a great book! This is my first Salman Rushdie, but definitely not my last. I enjoyed learning so much about the partitioning of India, Pakistan, and Bengladesh - and the writing - so lyrical and clever.
This book should have been a favorite of mine, as it combines the overall concept of a small, misunderstood group of people with extraspecial powers (a la X-Men in the comics) with the style of Latin American magic realists (a la Jorge Luis Borges or Gabriel Garcia Marquez) and the literary theme of...
Here is another I read while in graduate school. I recall it was one of the best books I read, but it was also a heavy book, with a lot to consider and study. I was interested back then in looking at the magic realist elements. I was rushing to read it, since I had other books and assignments. The p...
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