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Jul 21, 2005 03:55

"To understand me, you will have to swallow a world" or so says Saleem Sinai some ways into this delightful novel - Midnight's Children, indeed it takes a few chapters for the kid to be born while we swallow the tales of his family. This is a tale of Saleem "Snotnose" Sinai born at the precise stroke of India's independence and who by the timing of ( Read more... )

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First-rate entertainment! ex_ga_woo July 21 2005, 12:48:06 UTC

I enjoyed (yeah, that's the most detailed analysis I can make of a book. Whether I "enjoyed" it or not :) ) this book from start to finish except for Saleem Sinai's adventure in that river/forest/rain-stricken around the time he becomes the Buddha.

Re: First-rate entertainment! oldhen July 22 2005, 00:11:35 UTC

That passage through the Sunderbans was a little bizzare, very Apolcalypse Now like, I thought..

Re: First-rate entertainment! ex_ga_woo July 22 2005, 00:14:57 UTC

Haven't seen Apocalyse Now.
I was skipping words and jumping from the start of sentences to the end just so I could get through that river faster :)

Re: First-rate entertainment! oldhen July 22 2005, 00:21:40 UTC

Apocalyse Now is a brilliant movie - little dark, but has a great cast and fab musical score, the photography rocks too.. Btw, are you a super early bird, or a night owl like me?

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shortiyergirl July 22 2005, 04:13:11 UTC

Loved this book but found Satanic Verses boring.

oldhen July 22 2005, 08:44:33 UTC

A lot of folks I know have said that.. Not worthy of the fatwa, eh? I liked Moor's Last Sigh, and loved Haroun and the Sea of Stories..

madhav July 22 2005, 04:53:54 UTC

Frankly, I couldn't get beyond the first ten pages. Tried twice. Oh, maybe I'll be third time lucky.

oldhen July 22 2005, 08:52:33 UTC

I think you have to like his style, it's very distinctive, very Rushdie. I know quite a few people who don't like his style of writing that much, I tried to throw in some qualifiers in the post too. This is in contrast with someone like Rohinton Mistry for example, who I'd have no hesitation in whole-heartedly evangelising about, Rushdie is a little more polarising.

I felt the same way you did about God of Small Things couldn't really get beyond 20 pages. I love her non-fiction, just somehow couldn't take to her prose.

madhav July 22 2005, 10:28:46 UTC

Heh. I couldn't stop read GoST. One man's fish is another's poisson and all that, I guess.