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timpurches 's review for:
The Satanic Verses
by Salman Rushdie
I didn’t expect to like this book. I was expecting something intellectual, dense, inaccessible. Don’t know why - I guess I’ve always seen Salman Rushdie as a 'clever' writer, someone whose work was aimed at the 'arty' types. Yet I actually found it very readable. The patterns of language used and the often surreal events might be off putting to some, but I had no problem and found the various threads and subplots woven throughout the book engaging and the characters well drawn. The only downside was when I got the end of the book I found I’d absolutely no idea what it was all about! I’m guess I’m going to have to go away now and do some further reading...
Oh, there’s the controversy, of course. I guess without the cultural background the very small part of the story that stirred up so much trouble may not seem particularly significant. All Rushdie is implying is that the Quran is not the word of god, but then presumably pretty much all non-muslims think the same, so it hardly seems a unusual claim.
Oh, there’s the controversy, of course. I guess without the cultural background the very small part of the story that stirred up so much trouble may not seem particularly significant. All Rushdie is implying is that the Quran is not the word of god, but then presumably pretty much all non-muslims think the same, so it hardly seems a unusual claim.