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The Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie

Start date: January 1, 2017

Finish date: January 31, 2017

Why we're reading this: January 2017 Contemporary Lit
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Jan 13, 2017 Amanda rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This is the third Rushdie book that I have read and he has a way of making me feel not smart enough to really get his books so I have a hard time rating them.

This one has been on and off my reading radar for at least 25 years. I remember all the controversy surrounding it when it came out and the fatwa that was placed on the author. I found I was more interested in the circumstances and the author than I was the actual book so I never read it.

Picking it up now I expected it to be somewhat dated ...more

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Jan 12, 2017 Sarah rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: literary-stockholm-syndrome

I had to give myself the whole night to think of how I was going to rate this. I really liked the book but I also found it confusing. Yes, I know it's magical realism and the confusion is normal ;)

And now, about that part where I describe the book? Yeah, I don't really know what happened in it. Two guys fall from a plane as it explodes from a terrorist bomb. They miraculously survive and over the course of the novel they take on the characteristics of an angel and devil. Or do they? I think they ...more

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