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grayjay 's review for:
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
Rushdie's prose is flamboyant and colourful; it touches your senses, it sometimes muddles your brain. His world is magical, sometimes surreal, sometimes absurd. I enjoy that up to a point.
I found myself sympathetic toward his characters, but not interested in following them on their adventures.
This is a world where the fate of the characters somehow run parallel to the fate of the nation, although Rushdie often has to step in to explain the connection; even then I don't always see it.
This novel often references historical events and persons such as politicians and their doings relevant to the historical goingson, but since it's such a whirlwind tour, it feels like random name-dropping rather than the development of a sense of the history. Perhaps if I had lived it, the novel would be exciting, but since I have to take it as historical fiction, I am often left disengaged.
I found myself sympathetic toward his characters, but not interested in following them on their adventures.
This is a world where the fate of the characters somehow run parallel to the fate of the nation, although Rushdie often has to step in to explain the connection; even then I don't always see it.
This novel often references historical events and persons such as politicians and their doings relevant to the historical goingson, but since it's such a whirlwind tour, it feels like random name-dropping rather than the development of a sense of the history. Perhaps if I had lived it, the novel would be exciting, but since I have to take it as historical fiction, I am often left disengaged.