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I'd tried reading Midnight's Children at least twice before: first time I was simply a bit bored, couldn't get into it; later I noticed the writing was a variety of over-elaborate I really don't like. Why, then, try again? Never to have finished a Rushdie (I'd also abandoned The Satanic Verses and The Moor's Last Sigh in the 90s) seemed a terrible oversight given that I was reading a fair bit of British literary fiction, and there was residual guilt because he'd seemed so long to be the subconti
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