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3.25 AVERAGE
3.25 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
funny
inspiring
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:
Complicated
Loved Midnight's Children, but this one just didn't hold my attention -- I actually quit with about 30 pages left because the story was too diffuse to hold my attention. A few stunning passages where the language was beautiful and the storytelling vivid, but too few and far between.
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-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
One of the best books I’ve ever read. Best fantasy book for sure. Highly philosophical. It has its lengths, but it’s full of wisdom. Read it. Be surprised. Be amazed. Be enlightened. Laugh. Cry.
It was so dull. I had to force myself to read this far. It was time to pick up something else.
I « finished » this book with about seventy pages to go and I couldn’t motivate myself to finish it. I loved the premise of a modern 1001 Nights and looked forward to Rushdie’s poetic style. However, I found the female characters to be flat and stereotypes, perpetuating harmful prejudices. And the story didn’t seem to have sufficient direction. It was like killing time between an interesting beginning and an ending that I just couldn’t sit around to wait for.
Such a slow read! Took me forever, and I did not enjoy it!
I think this is a story of many things, at first I thought this was going to be a story poking questions on the endless fight between reasons and faith. And this is where things got a bit tricky for me, whilst I’m not necessarily a religious person, I also don’t entirely rebuke the existence of God or of a higher being, and I really am not looking to be reading a book where it argues about reason or faith, which trumps the other. Thankfully the story progresses into a more interesting layer. It still talks about religion, but it’s interesting because it is very relevance to today’s situation, and what’s eerie is Ghazali’s thoughts on fear directs people towards God, and look around, mate. Look. Around. The world is in shambles because people hides behind religion and fear, fear of God’s wrath.
The story is amazing, because this is about faith, reason, God, religion, fear, power, and love. It’s also amazing because it is very relevance, it will ignite fear in abled mind to think for yourself that if we are not careful, our world will succumb to the destruction that are caused by Zumurrudh and his cronies. It’s easier for the chaos that ensued in the book because we all know we have a group of Jinni to blame, but what of our world? For all I know, our destructions are the fruits of our own mistakes.
The story is amazing, because this is about faith, reason, God, religion, fear, power, and love. It’s also amazing because it is very relevance, it will ignite fear in abled mind to think for yourself that if we are not careful, our world will succumb to the destruction that are caused by Zumurrudh and his cronies. It’s easier for the chaos that ensued in the book because we all know we have a group of Jinni to blame, but what of our world? For all I know, our destructions are the fruits of our own mistakes.
Someone recommended this book to me as good first Rushdie, but maybe I should've just gone with the popular options.
I really liked the writing, so I'll certainly read more from him, but the book just had a lot of aspects that don't work for me. I wasn't aware this involves real life philosophers and I'm not big on alternate history, for example. The story is very fairy-tale/mythic like, with the usual character distance this brings with it, which I can like, but is also not my favorite thing. But mostly, I just reached 44% and the plot wasn't progressing, which I can be okay with if there is stronger character presence, but alas.
I really liked the writing, so I'll certainly read more from him, but the book just had a lot of aspects that don't work for me. I wasn't aware this involves real life philosophers and I'm not big on alternate history, for example. The story is very fairy-tale/mythic like, with the usual character distance this brings with it, which I can like, but is also not my favorite thing. But mostly, I just reached 44% and the plot wasn't progressing, which I can be okay with if there is stronger character presence, but alas.