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Step Across this Line by Salman Rushdie

November 24, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Salman Rushdie has been publishing novels for 40+ years and now and in addition to that has published two collections of essays and nonfiction. This is one that cover ground from 1992-2002. There’s a few different kinds of writings in this piece. There’s analysis of writing and politics, and I think this is Rushdie at his very best. He’s a good reader, and he’s good at making his reading clear and focused. So when he analyzes both what is true and interpretive about a novel, […]

The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions

The Golden House by Salman Rushdie

January 3, 2019 by lumenatrix Leave a Comment

Hey, so did you know that Salman Rushdie doesn’t like Donald Trump? Because he doesn’t. He really, really hates him, in fact. I know this because I read the Golden House, which is ostensibly about Rene and his relationship with his neighbors, the Golden Family, but it is actually quite a bit about the fact that Donald Trump became president and Rushdie didn’t like it. This is good and bad, in some ways the device works, but in others it was a little too […]

I want this book to end up like Gatsby

May 30, 2018 by lowercasesee 1 Comment

I’m temporarily skipping two reviews I owe y’all because I need this book closed and behind me just as fast as possible. The Golden House may have started a little interesting, teasing the hidden history of a family trying to start fresh, but it started to go downhill fast and then just wallowed at the bottom. It’s another one of those books that doesn’t feel the need to use full quotations or breaks for dialogue and thinks it’s artsy. At one point, a character is trying […]

1001 nights of hidden meanings.

November 25, 2015 by bonnie Leave a Comment

I don’t know a whole lot about The Arabian Nights (or 1001 Nights), but I do know the general premise, thanks to popular culture—Scheherazade spins a web for 1001 nights to save her life from the whims of a capricious ruler and so captivates him with her storytelling that he allows her to live at the very end. The stories are populated with thieves, the poor, the rich, rulers, and djinn. It is this fabric against which Salman Rushdie sets his Two Years Eight Months […]

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