A review by kscrimshaw
The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie

1.0

I read the first quarter, skimmed to the half way point and then abandoned it. I read The Satanic Verses a few years ago. It was work at times but ultimately worth it. This one was all work with no payoff. He certainly still has an astounding grasp of complexity. His stories may seem to be weaving recklessly in myriad directions but he always manages to bring it all together - in other words - if he had written Lost I wouldn't have been left so intensely irritated after the grand finale. But, unfortunately it just did not hold my interest. I didn't care about any of the seven million characters and if I began to we were off to someone else. Even Rushdie's famous word play is obvious and clunky here, coming off as pompous rather than clever.