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nithinsamuel 's review for:
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
challenging
emotional
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
My first ever read from Rushdie, whose works I'd wanted to read for the most part of a decade and a half but hadn't quite got myself to get myself any of his books, and I'll admit, that the first 150-250 pages were, to me, really long, meandering, felt clickety - cackety, if one were to use Rushdies style of words, and made me wonder if this even is my cup of tea, and I did read several books (started around 10), and finished a few (six) in between this read of Midnights Children, and even though it took me only around two months, I feel like I've lived a whole life in between traversing through The pretext, the coming, and the journey of Saleem Sinai and 1001 special children.
this story weaves magical realism, combined with a sort of alternate telling of history or dare I say historical-fantasm/fantasy and weaves well with the protagonists highs and lows and range of emotions and experiences which at times he self-questions the veracity of.
So magical and unreal are these incidents that such an elaborate and cohesive yet disbanded style of storytelling seems to be a take of many things at first but weaves it all together in the last few chapters where-on it ascribes new meaning and you get to experience the fruit of all the tidbits that you wondered earlier why they were there in the first place.
I'm glad I persisted and completed this read and reached its masterful culmination and can safely say, I will be reading more of Rushdies works int he future.
this story weaves magical realism, combined with a sort of alternate telling of history or dare I say historical-fantasm/fantasy and weaves well with the protagonists highs and lows and range of emotions and experiences which at times he self-questions the veracity of.
So magical and unreal are these incidents that such an elaborate and cohesive yet disbanded style of storytelling seems to be a take of many things at first but weaves it all together in the last few chapters where-on it ascribes new meaning and you get to experience the fruit of all the tidbits that you wondered earlier why they were there in the first place.
I'm glad I persisted and completed this read and reached its masterful culmination and can safely say, I will be reading more of Rushdies works int he future.