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The title's slightly misleading in that I've not just read that particular book but it does happen to be the last new book that has passed my eyes (I recently re-read William Gibson's Virtual Light and also The Hobbit).
I wish I could dazzle you all with some profound thoughts. something to add to the acclaim and praise Rushdie has already received for his sophomore effort (a Booker and two Booker of Booker awards). The truth is that I don't have much to offer at all.
I will say that I enjoyed the book on the whole. However, I don't mind admitting that there was a stage where I could have simply stopped reading altogether. This had nothing to do with the novel's fantastical elements though which seemed perfectly in place with the tumultuous events captured by the narrative.
It's probably the best of the Booker novels I have read although there's no escaping the fact that this is a small list indeed (Roddy Doyle's and James Kelman's winners although I do have Kiran Desai's somewhere).
8:16 PM
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