Posted: May 24, 2017 5:24 am
Fallible was right. Reading Rushdie is like trying to eat twenty Jacobs Cream Crackers without a drink. I managed 111 pages
but could go no further. It is just one long uninterrupted stream of consciousness. And Midnights Children is supposed to be his best as well but on the basis of what I have read it did not deserve the Booker at all. I am now reading The Executioners
Song by Norman Mailer. A Pulitzer prize winning novel about the capital punishment of Gary Gilmore who chose to be put to death instead of serving a life sentence for a double murder. And even though it is 1056 pages I know I will finish it if it is as good as the other Pulitzer I have read : American Pastoral by Philip Roth. And Rushdie should read that if he has not already done so as it is what a great novel looks like. Unlike what he has written
but could go no further. It is just one long uninterrupted stream of consciousness. And Midnights Children is supposed to be his best as well but on the basis of what I have read it did not deserve the Booker at all. I am now reading The Executioners
Song by Norman Mailer. A Pulitzer prize winning novel about the capital punishment of Gary Gilmore who chose to be put to death instead of serving a life sentence for a double murder. And even though it is 1056 pages I know I will finish it if it is as good as the other Pulitzer I have read : American Pastoral by Philip Roth. And Rushdie should read that if he has not already done so as it is what a great novel looks like. Unlike what he has written