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jammasterjamie 's review for:
Victory City
by Salman Rushdie
I'm an admitted nut for Salman Rushdie and I can read his prose until the proverbial cows come home and never get bored, and that stands true with Victory City as well, so why only the middling review? It's because for me the story never really figured out what it was and the plot meandered quite a bit. Was it interesting stuff and well-written? Sure, but if there was some sort of message that Rushdie was trying to get across with this one, it eluded me. Feminine empowerment seemed like the main theme from the beginning, but that never really panned out as even the strongest female characters ended up suffering at the whims of the ruling males, and all of the power the women did have came through fantastic and magical means, so the whole girl-power message came through garbled at best. Was it about the aimlessness of trading one fascist dictator for another slightly less authoritarian one, rinse, wash, and repeat for 250 years? Because, although that obviously happens, the remonstrance was unfortunately buried under Rushdie's beautiful prose, vivid even when describing the few instances of brutality that occur in this novel.
I don't know - Maybe it's just my mood lately, but this one was kind of a miss for me. Maybe I'll revisit in a couple of years and see if it hits differently then.
I don't know - Maybe it's just my mood lately, but this one was kind of a miss for me. Maybe I'll revisit in a couple of years and see if it hits differently then.