Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

9 reviews

stephaniekrebs's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Islamophobia, Medical content, Religious bigotry, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer and Stalking

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Violence, Blood, Islamophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

lifeinsherds's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Without a doubt, a 5 star rating. Even more so as the audiobook, narrated by Salman Rushdie. A miraculous story of survival with absolutely poetic language about family, love, violence and fear. I cannot recommend this more to literally anyone. I think this will be a book I wish I could read again for the first time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Violence, Blood, Islamophobia, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Murder

Moderate: Cursing

sammiseah's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, and Murder

vireogirl's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Very well written. This is the first book of his I've read. I'd heard of it and happened to see it on the Lucky Day shelf. 
His perspective on the world rang true. It had a nice balance of lighter moments, deep thoughts, and observations. His opinion on why religion should be in the private realm and not public was well explained. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Violence, Blood, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Cursing, Death, and Grief

samchase112's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

Here I go again, continuing my streak of reading famous novelist's memoirs before ever picking up their fiction. This was a powerful one, about a devastating and powerful event and the life-changing aftermath. There's no question Salman Rushdie is a thoughtful, opinionated, resilient person, but his kindness, humor, and love for his family are what shone through in this memoir. While I'm not sure it will become a long-term favorite, the first half was extremely moving, and I highly recommend it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Blood, and Medical content

Moderate: Death, Islamophobia, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Addiction, Cancer, and Terminal illness

edamamebean's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This was one of my most anticipated books of the year and I’m so glad the audiobook finally came through on libby. It was hard not to get emotional listening to Rushdie’s story. He describes traumatic incident after traumatic incident with such authorial grace and even humor. The heart of this book is actually the love story between him and his wife, poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths, which was really beautiful. Rushdie also talked a lot about something that has been on my mind lately (and the minds of many Americans these days), which is the violence of religious extremism. He writes about it very thoughtfully, which makes sense since religious extremism has affected huge parts of his life. I think everyone should read this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, and Death

himpersonal's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

5.0

I’ve read most of his books, and I’m always struck by the vastness of his imagination. Satanic Verses was the first time I’d encountered magical realism, and I remember being grateful to be at a liberal arts college (Mount Holyoke) that was teaching it as part of an Islam class. My second book was Midnight’s Children, and that was the first time I’d learned about the Indian-Pakistani partition (also taught at Mount Holyoke as part of an Indian literature class). Since then, I’ve read almost every one of his books, and I’ve gained so much from all of them. So I was filled with sadness to find out that the reason he now wears eyeglasses with one side blacked out was due to a stabbing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Body horror, Cancer, Confinement, Drug use, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

rready's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Hate crime, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Islamophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail