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This may sound weird since Rushdie's so known for writing about India, but there are very few authors who can make reading about European history anything other than dull dull dull for me. And all the parts set in Florence were completely fascinating. I want to go out and read other books about the Renaissance now. The part of the story set in Mughal India was also interesting, and a way better read I thought than the two books I read last summer by Indu Sundaresan about the same cast of fiction
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Not as impressive as I expected considering it won the Booker Prize.
--Also contains a mother lode of F@*$
--Also contains a mother lode of F@*$
Man- I can't remember the last time it took me this long to get through a book. His writing style is so complicated that every time I pick it back up I have no idea what is going on and have to go back and read the previous pages again.
I did love this one passage though:
"Imagine a pair of woman's lips," Mogor whispered, "puckering for a kiss. That is the city of Florence, narrow at the edges, swelling at the center, with the Arno flowing through between, parting the two lips, the upper and the l ...more
I did love this one passage though:
"Imagine a pair of woman's lips," Mogor whispered, "puckering for a kiss. That is the city of Florence, narrow at the edges, swelling at the center, with the Arno flowing through between, parting the two lips, the upper and the l ...more
Everyone and their aunt and their aunt's dog are talking about this book. I've never read Rushdie. It might be a good place to start?
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...just got this as a gift...nice dust jacket!
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