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Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
Oof. I've tried (twice now) to love Salman Rushdie because I felt as if he belonged to a caliber of writer about whom I should have an opinion and now I am, I fear, oh-for-two.
To be fair to Mr. Rushdie I'm beginning to think that it is perhaps the whole genre of magical realism that I struggle with as opposed to his writing in particular. I don't fux with Marquez or Borges, though I remain enamored by Morrison but I worry that that particular convention (which causes it to stray to close to other genre fiction of which I am certainly not a fan) is just one that may never be for me.
Midnight's Children is assuredly well-crafted, and I suspect has some compelling ideas (obfuscated behind magical... noses. I know) that will forever remain a mystery. I couldn't hang, Mr. Rushdie, I'm very sorry.
To be fair to Mr. Rushdie I'm beginning to think that it is perhaps the whole genre of magical realism that I struggle with as opposed to his writing in particular. I don't fux with Marquez or Borges, though I remain enamored by Morrison but I worry that that particular convention (which causes it to stray to close to other genre fiction of which I am certainly not a fan) is just one that may never be for me.
Midnight's Children is assuredly well-crafted, and I suspect has some compelling ideas (obfuscated behind magical... noses. I know) that will forever remain a mystery. I couldn't hang, Mr. Rushdie, I'm very sorry.