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aubrijoanne 's review for:
The Satanic Verses
by Salman Rushdie
This was such a challenge! Which I kind of knew going into it haha. Sometimes it felt like Rushdie wrote a sentence out in plain English, then went back with a thesaurus (or his own made up words) just to make the sentence longer/harder to read.
But it’s a classic (and banned) for a reason. I love how Rushdie doesn’t have an outright point of view, he’d rather sit and watch the reader squirm over the central theme: what is the nature of evil?
Through several completely surreal storylines including a pilgrimage to Mecca, a plane crash over London, and a fictional desert oasis complete with satirical prophet, I was basically just hanging on for dear life. My key takeaway is that evil isn’t as far away as we think it is. There’s no reason why Gibreel becomes angel and Chamcha devil. We can try to assign moral value to their characteristics, but really we’re all fallible humans with the capacity for evil right below the surface.
But it’s a classic (and banned) for a reason. I love how Rushdie doesn’t have an outright point of view, he’d rather sit and watch the reader squirm over the central theme: what is the nature of evil?
Through several completely surreal storylines including a pilgrimage to Mecca, a plane crash over London, and a fictional desert oasis complete with satirical prophet, I was basically just hanging on for dear life. My key takeaway is that evil isn’t as far away as we think it is. There’s no reason why Gibreel becomes angel and Chamcha devil. We can try to assign moral value to their characteristics, but really we’re all fallible humans with the capacity for evil right below the surface.