Is this going to be followed up by a "Then work came and made us free" thread about our jobs?
Anyone else use Goodreads? I could use some new friends there; most of my circle is family and friends who read mostly tripe and it's fun to follow along with what other people are reading.
Keep at it - it’s a wild trip. There will be points that don’t make sense, and I really believe in riding those waves/not letting that get to you or affect your reading of the book. It’s an important book for its content, form, narrative, history, and cultural critique now as much as in the 80s when Rushdie wrote it.I started reading The Satanic Verses a little while back. About 200 pages in now and it hasn't really hooked me yet, but I'm very stubborn and I almost never quit books I've started. Midnight's Children was one of my favourite books when I read it in 2011, and I've really liked the other three Rushdie novels I've read, so I'm expecting I'll still like it.
Anyone else use Goodreads? I could use some new friends there; most of my circle is family and friends who read mostly tripe and it's fun to follow along with what other people are reading.
What are the other 3?I started reading The Satanic Verses a little while back. About 200 pages in now and it hasn't really hooked me yet, but I'm very stubborn and I almost never quit books I've started. Midnight's Children was one of my favourite books when I read it in 2011, and I've really liked the other three Rushdie novels I've read, so I'm expecting I'll still like it.
Anyone else use Goodreads? I could use some new friends there; most of my circle is family and friends who read mostly tripe and it's fun to follow along with what other people are reading.
Shame, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, and Luka and the Fire of Life (I think that's what it was called). The two "kids" books were really fun.What are the other 3?
Yeah, Shame and Haroun especially are great. Ground Beneath Her Feet, The Moor’s Last Sigh, Enchantress of Florenece are all definitely worth your time, too.Shame, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, and Luka and the Fire of Life (I think that's what it was called). The two "kids" books were really fun.
Definitely, I'll get to the rest eventually. I've got most of them on shelves or in boxes waiting.Yeah, Shame and Haroun especially are great. Ground Beneath Her Feet, The Moor’s Last Sigh, Enchantress of Florenece are all definitely worth your time, too.
I’ve only read Slouching Towards Bethlehem, just last year. But I loved it. She’s fantastic. Once I have the time, I’m gonna pick up that big anthology that came out a while back. It has a handful of her books in it, but not all of them.Does anyone read Joan Didion’s work?
I’ve read a few, with ‘Slouching Towards Bethlehem’ being my favorite, and I just started ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’.
“I would always be guarded against artificial roses.” This book is going to rip me apart.