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I would have liked this book more if I had read it at a different time. I read it because I've wanted to read Rushdie and it's a book listed on BBCs Best Reads.
The negatives: magical realism has a dark, obsessive element that I found uncomfortable; I didn't identify with Saleem--the main character; and after reading The God of Small Things and A Fine Balance, India seems like an experiment gone wrong--slums, inhumanity, taking a shit in the gutter, corruption, the smell of urine mixed with cori ...more
The negatives: magical realism has a dark, obsessive element that I found uncomfortable; I didn't identify with Saleem--the main character; and after reading The God of Small Things and A Fine Balance, India seems like an experiment gone wrong--slums, inhumanity, taking a shit in the gutter, corruption, the smell of urine mixed with cori ...more
Interminable.
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