This is a funny entry into the magical realism genre, because maybe nothing magical happens. Ayesha's followers die. Gibreel is insane. Rushdie uses this misty method to expose the ugliness of belief in magic, the rot of blind faith. It's a religious book, but not a superstitious one.But also: does ...
I enjoyed the themes present in this book. Faith versus doubt versus non-belief. Extremism. Divine revelation as related to schizophrenia. The completely human, ungodly starts to the world's religions. Religion, simply, as an "idea"."WHAT KIND OF AN IDEA ARE YOU? Are you the kind that compromi...
Notoriety can be a bad thing ... unless you are an author, in which case it just might launch your book onto the bestseller lists. The Satanic Verses is probably best known for the controversy it sparked when Ayahtollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for Rushdie's death after the publication of th...
So big, so indescribable; just blew my mind with minutiae and with scope. Takes patience--the story is in chunks and you leave stories and characters behind for hundreds of pages before coming back to them--and it is long. But worth it, my god, and doesn't suffer from a prolonged reading experienc...
Me gustó mucho, pero no estoy segura de haber entendido.En fin, esta es la clase de libro donde se vale que el autor no vaya al grano y se detenga todo el tiempo en detalles insignificantes.
I'd been meaning to read the Satanic Bible for a long time now, and now that I've finally gotten around to it... I kid. This book isn't the Satanic anything, but it is strange. At times while reading it I'd try to imagine how Rushdie came up with it. I can't. His life, his thought process are so for...
I'd been curious about this book for quite a while, obviously because of the publicity and controversy surrounding it.My opinion: it's good. But it's certainly not worth dying for. (As a translator already has, and two others have barley survived assassination attempts).Interestingly, the main focus...
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