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    <body><![CDATA[I reread SHAME this weekend and was once again reminded why Rushdie is one of the greatest authors of our time. In Shame he addresses may levels but this last reading I focused on how he has intertwined the relationship of Shame throughout the levels of our human experience. He draws his characters ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7630707">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Although I always list Rushdie as one of my favorite authors of all time, it had been almost ten years since I picked up one of his books.  So when I came across Shame in 12th Street books, I decided to dive back in.<br/><br/>I loved the way that the story kept leaping ahead of itself, rushing ahe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20158299">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think Rushdie is one of the best writers of our time. He can describe a whole culture in two sentences. He provides an eye-opening glimpse into a society that is totally foreign and bewildering to me. Like &quot;Midnight's Children,&quot; this novel is populated with characters who aren't like peo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47576179">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The book is not bad and covers a very interesting topic in a fantasy Pakistan. However the fantasy world is pushed a bit too far and many analogies are a bit too self consciously explicit. By allowing himself to detach the story so far from &quot;reality&quot; it makes the thematic aspect of the boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12134325">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Picking up a Rushdie book after 5 years, as I did last month, is like reading a Shakespeare play after 5 years.  It takes a few pages to re familiarize yourself with the patterns and rhythms of the prose style, to fully take advantage of the layered depths of meaning in each phrase.  When the music ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52708101">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i finished this book the same day benazir bhutto (aka arjumand &quot;virgin ironpants&quot;, according to the observer) was assasinated, how fitting. now i am on my way to read &quot;midnight's children&quot;!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the hardest books I've ever read but really really really brilliant.  Plus Rushdie's being hunted by da Islams, and he's a complete asshole to boot, which makes for a great trifecta]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[There are moments of brilliance here, but I seem to have little tolerance for novels that sag and sprawl. I enjoy an intricately plotted novel sometimes but Shame isn't tightly wound enough to propel me all the way through without resenting all the random points of departure and, especially, the nar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41537773">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really expected to dislike this work by Salman Rushdie - not having read anything by him before I was full of preconcieved notions about what his writing would be like. As it turns out, when I read this book for a class I am taking, I really *really* enjoyed it.<br/><br/>The story is about somew...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34167496">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've loved most of the Rushdie I've read, but this one wore me a little thin.  Partly, I just lack context.  I suspect this is largely allegorical, but I have none of requisite reference points for this novel, which recounts the early history of Pakistan with flourishes of magical realism.  I picked...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32894954">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I like Salman Rushdie's stuff, most of it, especially the earlier stuff, and this was a good page-turner with all sorts of fantastical, allegorical stuff going on.  Here's some parts I liked:<br/><br/>On writing in the English language, p 33: &quot;This word: shame.  No, I must write it in its ori...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18071124">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[From Midnight Children on, seems that Roshdie’s preference moves tward the language rather than the narration itself. Comparing ”The ground beneath of her feet” and ”Midnight children” one comes to a more beautiful language but less interesting events.<br/><br/>در اثار رشدی ز...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50764">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[we all know salman rushdie as a phenomenally intelligent author with highly developed creative ability to bring to life on a page the adventure of being human.But  you know what he mercilessly uses difficult complicated words which are of the ordinary and challenges readers wit to mak sense of thing...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81179678">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Shame is an important, sharp book, and while I enjoyed how mythy (not a word. you know what i mean.) the stories are, it honestly took me forever to read. Maybe I don't know enough about Pakistan. Every sentence carries the world, I swear. I remember totally not getting it the first time I read it f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7171780">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, I tried...just couldn't get into it.  Myabe I will have to try again, but I get the feeling that his style is not my taste.  Very vivid descriptions, but the twist and turns within the first few pages did not enchant me like I think he intended.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was stolen before I could finish it. I was using a picture of myself holding a puppy as my bookmark. Someone was shameless enough to steal a copy of a book titled Shame, which held a photo of its rightful owner and a puppy. Sharam. Sharam. Sharam.]]></body>
    
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