(August 1, 2016 at 9:02 am)Alex K Wrote: Aiye, I tried to read the Satanic Verses, and after a few pages I began suspecting that the Fatwah was for the impenetrable style. Maybe I should give it another shot some time
Definitely not the best of his books - although I haven't read many. The symbolism seems somewhat heavy-handed and while the concept is interesting - the titular "Satanic Verses" being a few lines of Quran, that seem to endorse polytheism and pay tribute to some pagan goddess, which apparently has been bothering muslim scholars for ages - the story kind of... peters out, in my opinion. Still - wort a read, just to be able to say that you did...
My favorite would be Midnight's Children, which deals with events in India, during the transition from British colonialism to independence. A copy of "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" has been in my possession for some 10 years, one of very few old-fashioned books I own, but I can't make myself read it, for some reason. I might get an audio version to listen to at work, I suppose.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
