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| Title | : | The Satanic Verses |
| Author | : | Salman Rushdie |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 561 pages |
| Published | : | 1997 by Picador USA (first published September 26th 1988) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Magical Realism. Classics. Literature. Cultural. India. Fantasy |
Salman Rushdie
Paperback | Pages: 561 pages Rating: 3.71 | 51141 Users | 3568 Reviews
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Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two figures, Gibreel Farishta, the biggest star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years, plummet from the sky, washing up on the snow-covered sands of an English beach, and proceed through a series of metamorphoses, dreams, and revelations. --back coverIdentify Books In Favor Of The Satanic Verses
| Original Title: | The Satanic Verses |
| ISBN: | 0312270828 (ISBN13: 9780312270827) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Gibreel Farishta, Saladin Chamcha |
| Setting: | London, England Bombay(India) |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee (1988), Whitbread Award for Novel (1988) |
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Ratings: 3.71 From 51141 Users | 3568 ReviewsWrite-Up Regarding Books The Satanic Verses
From the archives: September 27 1988The Satanic Verses, the controversial first draft of the Quran recently discovered after spending 1379 years in a safe deposit box, finally appeared yesterday to a mixed reception. "Wheeeeee! I'm so excited!!" said one fan who had spent all night lining up outside her local Barnes & Noble. "A new book by Allah! Can you believe it?!" Other readers are however less enthusiastic about the novel, and take exception to its portrayal of the much-loved characterI'm doing my best not to think "Here goes Rushdie again." I never read this one before although I read every other book he ever wrote. And now, to fill the gap, I am stuck with the last unread jewel, except that it's somehow lackluster because Salman doesn't age or accumulate well. I mean, the more you read him the more he sounds the same. And has this ever happened to you: that you discover in a writer just a wisp of too much wit and it's wit that bores you?Yes, I'm reading on, with strange
Satanic Verses: A CompositionHe had just finished his thirty-fourth reading of the play. The unsaid hate, the unseen events, the half-imagined wrongs; they tormented him. What could cause such evil to manifest, he just could not figure. He loved him too much to believe the simple explanation.And then the idea starts growing on him - to explore the growth of evil just as Shakespeare showed, explored the tragic culmination of it. And because you show the growth, it can no longer be a tragedy, no,
Life is too short to endure bad fiction.The story started out interesting enough, with the characters literally falling out of the sky. It took me a awhile to get into the story, but I finally did. The problem was that every time you managed to get a hold of the basic underlying narrative it would evaporate and be replaced by a nonsensical dream sequence. The transitions between the two realities was so seamless that you frequently find yourself lost. Add all of that to the fact that you are
The Satanic Verses is vastly imaginative and creative; it is a force to be reckoned with in the literary world providing you can actually get through it. And theres the rub because The Satanic Verses is quite possibly the single most confusing piece of fiction I have ever read. Im just not sure what happened. And after 500+ pages I feel like a book should leave me with a little more than an overbearing sense of bewilderment. Perhaps if I was more widely read I would have appreciated it more.
I have been trying to read this book day by day by day and just cannot get into it. I tried when it was published, put it aside for another day. Tried again many years later. This will have to be my pen-ultimate effort, I hope.The writing is well done. Eloquent. Impressive. But apart from that there's nothing else gripping me to a point where I want to leave everything else and bed down with this book. The subject simply does not mesmerize me enough. Will try again later.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable. Ive been meaning to read this novel for years, ever since I first read his other magnificent novel Midnights Children, and the wait was worth it, it is not disappointing in any sense of the word.My one problem is that I expected this to be an novel set in ancient times, as I thought it had a bigger focus on ancient deities and Islam in general, instead I was greeted by a fantastic study on what is like to be alienated, as an
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