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Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
by Salman Rushdie
I'm having difficulty rating this. I'd probably put it at 3.5
I found elements fascinating, the story certainly kept me going. But it didn't come together. Maybe it was that this felt, in the end, too plot driven (both for Rushdie, and considering how this book began). Maybe the plot just wasn't dynamic enough for me.
There were elements that I was expecting to have more of a pay off. The multiple characters came together in the end, but as a super hero (or super Jinn) team, instead of anything that explored the heart of the characters. And then there was the literary conceit that this was being told about a thousand years into our future. It brought forward many possibilities, for instance that Rushdie could explore the way past ages seem in stories to have more magic. But he could have done so much more than he did.
Honestly, this book feels unfinished for me, because I knew Rushdie could have done more.
I found elements fascinating, the story certainly kept me going. But it didn't come together. Maybe it was that this felt, in the end, too plot driven (both for Rushdie, and considering how this book began). Maybe the plot just wasn't dynamic enough for me.
There were elements that I was expecting to have more of a pay off. The multiple characters came together in the end, but as a super hero (or super Jinn) team, instead of anything that explored the heart of the characters. And then there was the literary conceit that this was being told about a thousand years into our future. It brought forward many possibilities, for instance that Rushdie could explore the way past ages seem in stories to have more magic. But he could have done so much more than he did.
Honestly, this book feels unfinished for me, because I knew Rushdie could have done more.