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The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
4.0

Overall, I liked this a lot. I went in expecting a dry story about Muhammad, but instead got a frequently funny book about alienation and one's struggle to fit in as an immigrant. The protagonists are both stuck between cultures.

Although the long sub-plots can get tiresome and pull you out of the main story, the long digressions are often just as good as the main plot. The novel is brimming with ideas and little stories, and most of them are good.