A review by neonskylite
Knife: Meditations After An Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

reading this book is the penance i must pay for being one of those people who read The Satanic Verses after Rushdie was almost assassinated for the sole reason of being able to say "I read the Satanic Verses so I can weigh in on the discourse and look like a Distinguished Reader" because to quote Mark Twain a classic is something that everyone wants to have read and nobody wants to be reading in the moment. this is being a bit unfair because I do like The Satanic Verses but it ended up being the non-controversial (or less controversial?) parts so unfortunately I have to discuss it like the novel it is and not as a hot-button issue.

anyways "deciding your would-be assassin is a very shallow person so you write a fictionalised, more thoughtful version of him to interview" is a power move
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