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Midnight’s Children

Salman Rushdie

Start date: May 15, 2009

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May 08, 2009 Ruth rated it did not like it

Shelves: dof-didnotfinish

Reading this I felt as if I were wading through molasses. True, there were moments when I stopped to taste the sweetness of the language, the deliciousness of the phrasing. But each time I returned to the task of making forward progress, the molasses was stickier and the progress was slower, until at last I came to a standstill. Last seen, the book was disappearing down the chute to its home in the library, the lovely silk ribbon marker only about 75 pages in.

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Jan 12, 2015 Poppy rated it it was amazing

Shelves: novel, kindle, 2015-book-challenge, bbc-booklist

Subtitle: India is Even More Exotic than I'd Supposed, Yar ...more

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Aug 24, 2008 Jim rated it really liked it

Shelves: literary

It took a while to get acclimated (2 years), but once I caught on I was hooked. I think of it as a coming of age story with a bunch of wild events and outsized characters -- a little like Augie March, a little like David Copperfield with just a dash of Proust.

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Aug 02, 2010 Jane rated it it was amazing

Read a long time ago. Was absolutely blown away by the language, the sense of place, the development of characters. This is one to go back to. It's extraordinary. I love Amitov Ghosh's writing, but this is even more complex, more poetic. ...more

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