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A review by ppkfs
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.5
I do my very best to not use this to describe books, but in this case it fits: pretentious nonsense.
"Exploring what good and evil mean, religion, family, love, class, immigrants..." - maybe there was but it was completely lost in the mess of confusing prose going seemingly nowhere. It wasn't particularly beautiful, it was just a colossal wall of mess. I don't even know what the purpose of the secondary narrative thread over the Prophet Muhammad was.
A huge slog that I should've DNF'd at 100 pages in but there was always another paragraph that made me hope it would explore something about these peoples' lives (the side stories of Chamcha's father for instance) or go more into the Ayesha Haj (which felt like a completely independent afterthought) or the racial tension in London (which felt like it was introduced and then treated as if it was a major thing but it was just quietly wrapped up the end) but no, he just wanted to talk about Chamcha's massive goat bulge repeatedly for some reason.
"Exploring what good and evil mean, religion, family, love, class, immigrants..." - maybe there was but it was completely lost in the mess of confusing prose going seemingly nowhere. It wasn't particularly beautiful, it was just a colossal wall of mess. I don't even know what the purpose of the secondary narrative thread over the Prophet Muhammad was.
A huge slog that I should've DNF'd at 100 pages in but there was always another paragraph that made me hope it would explore something about these peoples' lives (the side stories of Chamcha's father for instance) or go more into the Ayesha Haj (which felt like a completely independent afterthought) or the racial tension in London (which felt like it was introduced and then treated as if it was a major thing but it was just quietly wrapped up the end) but no, he just wanted to talk about Chamcha's massive goat bulge repeatedly for some reason.