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This reads like the author needed $18,000 for an unnecessary oral prosthetic that wasn’t covered by insurance. Also, Salmon Rushdie loves his 5th wife very, very, VERY much.
I've never read any of Rushdie's works but this seemed too intriguing to pass up. And I'm glad I gave it a shot. His writing is so beautiful and funny and clever, even with a topic such as his almost-assassination.
The way he wrote about the knife and its many meanings and life and love was just great to read. I highlighted so many passages.
I don't know what else to say except, it was a stunning memoir and I'm glad I was able to get both the physical and audio.
The way he wrote about the knife and its many meanings and life and love was just great to read. I highlighted so many passages.
I don't know what else to say except, it was a stunning memoir and I'm glad I was able to get both the physical and audio.
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informative
inspiring
reflective
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Why did I rate Joseph Anton so highly and find this so inane, a waste of good trees? I can't lay my finger on it, but a reckoning might have come when Rushdie, in his poor man's Socratic dialogue with his 24 year old would-be assassin, questions him on his authentic New Jersey cred and asks if he's a fan of Queen Latifah.
If Rushdie's assassin had bothered to read more of his work, might he have learnt how to aim?
If Rushdie's assassin had bothered to read more of his work, might he have learnt how to aim?
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3.5/5
Rating a memoir is always tough, especially when it's from an author you already admire greatly. I think this hit on some stuff that felt very relevant to me--I wrote big papers on Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses in college and admire them very deeply, I'm also looking down the barrel of a serious surgery--and I'm not sure I would have gotten much out of this book had both of those things not been true about me.
It was so interesting to hear about his experience in the years after the fatwa, and comparing this new incident to that time in his life. But I also wanted more contemplation and less writing about his love for his wife (who I'm sure he loves very much, but it's just interesting when you know this is his FIFTH). At the end of the day, Rushdie is a writer I respect a lot and while it's unfair to ask more of him when it's such a personal subject...here I am!
Rating a memoir is always tough, especially when it's from an author you already admire greatly. I think this hit on some stuff that felt very relevant to me--I wrote big papers on Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses in college and admire them very deeply, I'm also looking down the barrel of a serious surgery--and I'm not sure I would have gotten much out of this book had both of those things not been true about me.
It was so interesting to hear about his experience in the years after the fatwa, and comparing this new incident to that time in his life. But I also wanted more contemplation and less writing about his love for his wife (who I'm sure he loves very much, but it's just interesting when you know this is his FIFTH). At the end of the day, Rushdie is a writer I respect a lot and while it's unfair to ask more of him when it's such a personal subject...here I am!