The Satanic Verses in Reading with Style

Aug 13, 2013 Juniper rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: owned, 2013-books

okay...well...that was one of the oddest reading experiences i have ever had. i can think of no other book (and i have been trying to think on this for a few days now) that had me loving it, laughing out loud, and kinda awed...but then also feeling mired down, slogging and not wanting to pick it back up. if i was a reader who quit on books...i would have thrown in the towel around the halfway point. my enchantment had sorely waned by then.

what's surprising to me is how much the majority of this ...more

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Feb 05, 2015 Bucket rated it it was amazing

Shelves: literary, 1001-read-all-editions, diversity, religion, race, culture, politics, world-lit, reviewed, magical-realism

"Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true."

"Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself a kind of belief. Doubt."

I attempted this novel once, back in college, and gave up on it - like many others, I know! So this time before I began reading it I took the time to do a little research, and I'm so glad I did. I also think it didn't hurt at all that it's more than a decade later - I'm a much wi ...more

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Mar 30, 2011 Tien rated it liked it

Shelves: read-on-kobo, literature, india

With this, I’m giving up on Salman Rushdie! I’ve also read Midnight’s Children which I found a bit more palatable though just as crazy. I don’t usually mind Magical Realism in my novels which could be beautiful (magical!) but I think it’s the structure of the novel which really confounded me. The beginning, both protagonists falling out of the sky, I found utterly captivating but around midway, with the transfiguration, he’s lost me. Not of the transfiguration itself but of what’s happened durin ...more

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