- Nov 28, 2001
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By Salman Rushdie of course.
I'm about 100 pages in so far. The magic realism reminds me a bit of Gabriel García Márquez and my favourit book of all time 100 years of solitude. If you haven't read 100 years by all means read it NOW! This has some similar moments of brilliance but I'm finding it a difficult book to get through both on a simple literary level and thematically. There are a couple of scenes that I'll have to mull over for a while! Just curious who else has read it here and what their opinions were.
I'm more than something of a literature noob in many ways but I've taken to reading and loving some of the classic and contemporary great works. Even if I at time struggle, I still find myself often overwhelmed by the shear brilliance so many of these authors manage to wield with such grace.
Other favourites of mine include Moby Dick, Under the Volcano, The grapes of Wrath, The Stone Diaries , and Middlesex.
I'm about 100 pages in so far. The magic realism reminds me a bit of Gabriel García Márquez and my favourit book of all time 100 years of solitude. If you haven't read 100 years by all means read it NOW! This has some similar moments of brilliance but I'm finding it a difficult book to get through both on a simple literary level and thematically. There are a couple of scenes that I'll have to mull over for a while! Just curious who else has read it here and what their opinions were.
I'm more than something of a literature noob in many ways but I've taken to reading and loving some of the classic and contemporary great works. Even if I at time struggle, I still find myself often overwhelmed by the shear brilliance so many of these authors manage to wield with such grace.
Other favourites of mine include Moby Dick, Under the Volcano, The grapes of Wrath, The Stone Diaries , and Middlesex.
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