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Liked It1 of 1 members found this review helpful “This is my first ever Rushdie novel, having been intimidated by his reputation and worried that the book would be a slog. I'm happy to report that this wasn't the case- Rushdie writes in a lucid, captivating style with conveys a witty and fun immediacy to the story and setting. Looking over other...” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“it´s such a waste of time-too artificial”
dorin d wrote this review 2 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“This having been the first Rushdie novel I have ever read, I really did not know what to expect. I was rather discouraged in the beginning as Rushdie's style takes some adjusting to, being both extremely complex with topics ranging from mythology to contemporary politics which makes it difficult to keep up with at times, but as I went on I had a revelation, I felt as if a gate had opened allowing me to get in and finally find some answers. Most powerful and unexampled reading adventure I've had so far!”
Andrea K wrote this review Tuesday, October 20 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Awesome. Rushdie has an amazing ability to interweave time, fiction, and reality to take the reader to another world.”
Brett W wrote this review Thursday, September 24 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Lyrical, but dense... not an easy book to get through. ”
Maryann S wrote this review Saturday, July 11 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“It's amazing the way people always say they "loved" or "hated" this book. It's what best describes the book i think, it captivates or scares you or both at the same time. i take it as a monumental work on love... from a distance. A paradox maybe. You don't have to read it the way you would watch a movie: the plot doesn't matter. It's what i discovered in Rushdie's work: it does not matter what the end is, but what happens along the way. You have to read it as if it wouldn't ever end, you have to live each paragraph or you will, indeed, end with a "huh?" on your face.”
Andra S wrote this review Monday, April 27 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This one has been by far the slowest and most trying of Rushdie's novels. I was quite used to his slow beginings and slow development of plot but this one tried my patience so hard I nearly put it down a couple of times.
Alina B wrote this review Saturday, January 17 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
I'm nor sorry I didn't, I still love his writing. The story is essentially one that has all the ingredients we found elsewhere in his novels: displacement, India, relationship with others, magical worlds.
The re-writing of Orpheus is what attracted me in the first place and it kept the story going and my interst alive. If only he had not felt compelled to insert soooo many literary hints. These are what makes the narrator unlikely - he is after all supposed to be just a photographer and I felt too much Rushdie in him to be that interested in the story.
So, not a bad book after all, just not one to pick up as his first!”
“One of the best books I have ever read. Rushdie's prose is nearly poetic, the imagery oozes out of the pages.”
Randy A wrote this review Thursday, October 23 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I loved this book! It took me some time to read it, as it requires a lot of concentration, it's not something just to flip through, but it's definetly one of my favourites!”
ana z wrote this review Tuesday, August 26 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Rushdie is the master of wordplay, and word images. As a writer, I find myself completely intimidated by him.”
Letitia Harmon wrote this review Thursday, July 10 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No1 of 1 members found this review helpful“This is my first ever Rushdie novel, having been intimidated by his reputation and worried that the book would be a slog. I'm happy to report that this wasn't the case- Rushdie writes in a lucid, captivating style with conveys a witty and fun immediacy to the story and setting. Looking over other reviews, I see that many consider this a try at pop writing for Rushdie, so perhaps I'm coming away with a wrong impression of his other works, but I found 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet' to be epic, accessible, engaging and challenging, even though I know next to nothing about the pop-music personality cults he is both satirizing and celebrating. I'm surprised it's taken me so long to pick up another of his books.”
Gerg wrote this review Wednesday, June 11 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
