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jeaniinabottle 's review for:
The Satanic Verses
by Salman Rushdie
DO NOT listen to this on audiobook. It is not a book that you can half-listen to while you're driving. It also is not a beach read. It is a book that you need to read with a notebook full of indexes and charts to keep everything straight.
Early in the fourth chapter of the book I realized I had no idea what was happening or who any of the characters were and ran it back... and realized that the reason I didn't know what was happening was because the book had suddenly completely shifted focus, setting, and cast of characters.
This happens multiple times, and the shifts last for anywhere from the equivalent of fifty to a hundred pages. Everything comes together in the end, but honestly I'm going to have to listen to it probably at least twice more to even begin to glean a solid understanding of events from it. This is the kind of book you could build an entire semester's class around on its own. Worth reading, to be sure, but not one to pick up to read quickly or casually.
Early in the fourth chapter of the book I realized I had no idea what was happening or who any of the characters were and ran it back... and realized that the reason I didn't know what was happening was because the book had suddenly completely shifted focus, setting, and cast of characters.
This happens multiple times, and the shifts last for anywhere from the equivalent of fifty to a hundred pages. Everything comes together in the end, but honestly I'm going to have to listen to it probably at least twice more to even begin to glean a solid understanding of events from it. This is the kind of book you could build an entire semester's class around on its own. Worth reading, to be sure, but not one to pick up to read quickly or casually.