A review by scrappymags
The Golden House by Salman Rushdie

DNF at 25% and I'm so so sad about that. Maybe someone needs to convince me to soldier on but that's my limit. I wasn't looking forward to picking the book back up and couldn't REALLY get into it. I might go back and try a little more. Here's the thing... it's a bit "high brow" literature, which I DO enjoy. I'm an English teacher and understood references to something being Prufrocked and "Nietzschean elitism." But some references like "This is Baba Yaga..." huh? Thank God I read on a Kindle now so I could quickly read about it, go ah ok and move on. The book needs footnotes! The problem was - this was happening frequently and I kept questioning, "what's the STORY here" lost feeling, instead sensing that I was MISSING something. I'm betwixt here as I love a challenge and to learn while reading, but also I need a story to keep my attention, to become involved with characters. By 25% I didn't fully understand the narrator's role other than some semi-kooky film maker, that there's this family and they all live in one of the most expensive areas of NYC, and they are mysterious. A new sexy model lady was going after the dad so maybe it grows after that... again... opinions would be welcomed if I should truck or bail.... but for now it's bail.