Julie's review
The Satanic Verses: A Novel by Salman Rushdie
Wow. This is one long-ass book. Whimsical and hilarious, as well as profound in subtextually linking mankind's many-yet-one, hero-with-a-thousand-faces religions...yet, it's a challenge to forge. Rambling and somehow stream-of-conscious, yet comprised of several solid plots that keep you from completely letting go. Several short stories and universes bleeding into each other, disregarding conventions such as Time or Geography. A mixed up jumble that makes complete sense (but don't ask me to tell you what that sense is); I wanted to hate it, to throw it across the room as I tired from tedium...and then Rushdie would turn a phrase or paragraph or chapter, and I'd be laughing and involved again. A maddening decent into goofy madness. Don't ask me to make sense of it! I've been dragged around by my ear, and years from now, the lightbulb will go on.
It's been called "Magic Realism," and I've been trying to separate this meaning from "Surrealism." As, I really co...more
It's been called "Magic Realism," and I've been trying to separate this meaning from "Surrealism." As, I really co...more
