false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072028m/9868.jpg 9868 20 A rickshaw driver dreams of being a Bombay movie star; Indian diplomats, who as childhood friends hatched Star Trek fantasies, must boldly go into a hidden universe of conspiracy and violence; and Hamlet's jester is caught up in murderous intrigues. In Rushdie's hybrid world, an Indian guru can be a redheaded Welshman, while Christopher Columbus is an immigrant, dreaming of Western glory. Rushdie allows himself, like his characters, to be pulled now in one direction, then in another. Yet he remains a writer who insists on our cultural complexity; who, rising beyond ideology, refuses to choose between East and West and embraces the world. 1003139 1994 East, West total:1017|5:175|4:374|3:379|2:79|1:10| 1017 3676 1366 67 3 0 false false Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 08:34:45 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 16:10:56 -0800 2009
Rushdie presents three groups of three stories,...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 21 13:24:34 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 21 13:48:54 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 true false Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 03:25:02 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 03:35:45 -0800 2009
From my experience, I'd say Rushdie's short stories are...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Dec 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 11:04:11 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 05 10:00:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri Nov 30 00:44:50 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 30 00:45:40 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2 0 true false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 06:34:46 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 06:38:55 -0800 2009 Interpreter of Maladies but this just didn't really work for me.]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 10:07:07 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 16:27:14 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Tue Sep 25 15:17:49 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 25 15:26:07 -0700 2007 The Free Radio. It's about a young man, a rickshaw-driver, who gets tricked into marrying this older, I guess good-looking but bitter and manipulative woman who already has a bunch of...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 13 06:15:47 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 13 06:20:41 -0700 2007
I enjoyed how the narrative voice changed between the stoic, observing east and the subjective, self-centered west without sounding too stylized or voice-dr...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 30 00:45:57 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 00:47:18 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sat Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Mon Aug 10 14:22:06 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 14:22:26 -0700 2009 4 0 true false Sun Jun 22 20:10:01 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 21 12:52:57 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 22 20:10:01 -0700 2008
"... 'Home' has become such a scattered, damagd, various concept in our presents travails. There is so much to yearn for. There are so few rainbows anymore[...]. They promised to take us home, but are metaphors of homeliness comprehensib...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat May 02 14:22:05 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 14:22:39 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 12:40:53 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 07:22:04 -0700 2009
UPDATE: Great stories. Read it in more of a hurry than I'd like to have, so I don't feel like I have any concept of Rushdie's work. Will have to get back to him later.]]> 0 0 false false Sat Jun 20 11:21:13 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 11:21:13 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun May 17 12:06:19 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 12:07:05 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 01 13:23:22 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 01 13:27:17 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Jun 20 11:16:17 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 11:16:17 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Thu Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 22:51:06 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 03 00:04:57 -0700 2008 East, West is a mixed bag. Some of the stories are quite compelling, but many of them get caught in Rushdie's annoying post-modernist cleverness. At best, for instance, in the story of Chekov and Zulu, this cleverness adds the only interest to an otherwise dull story. At worst, the Zorick story, the...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri May 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 28 15:52:04 -0700 2008 Fri May 02 10:47:32 -0700 2008
The book is a complilation of short stories that are supposedly full of symbolism and important life lessons, but I guess I ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=9868