Reviews

Grimus by Salman Rushdie

mushababy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

synthecision's review against another edition

2.0

An erudite but inexact parable with more artifice than art and more farce than wit, full of white noise and existential angst. Signifies nothing.

junderscoreb's review against another edition

3.0

salman rushdie is supposedly embarrassed about this book now, but I thought it was okay.

tani's review against another edition

2.0

Ugh. Disliked the main character. Didn't care about the story. Writing was good, but didn't make up for everything else. Also, having women around only so that the main character can have sex with them? Definitely not the way to win me over. Just sayin'.

caseyhitchcock81's review against another edition

2.0

As much as I love Rushdie, I couldn't get into this. It was weird.

lizvarm's review against another edition

4.0

Bizarre, but lots of comparison to the real world. As workers, we are all slaves.

mcormier's review against another edition

4.0

An impressive debut. What is more impressive is the progression from this novel to his next, Midnight's Children, which wins the Booker. Most people should skip this book and simply read Midnight's Children. Completists should do what completists do and read them both.

Interestingly I read this book shortly after William Gibson's Agency. Both books have short sentences and short chapters. But while Gibson's prose sometimes felt jagged and abrupt, I never got that feeling when reading Rushdie. Even with Rushdie's most curt phrases things felt fluid and smooth.

bigfrog's review against another edition

3.5

I have a hard time saying this is bad, but it doesn’t mean I think its good.

whimsicalmeerkat's review against another edition

1.0

Painfully bad. In many cases, I like people's first works, but not this time.

popefacekillah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0