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Summary: Wonderful world of imagination and humour
Review: The world created by Rushdie sucks you out of your own. As an Irish person the idea of reality and dreamworld is not a difficult one to grapple with. I wonder is it a function of being post colonial or specifically post British empire. Irish poets and singers for generations lived and wrote in dreamworlds of their own.
This century saw many writers emerge that share the same kind of compulsions and radical rethink of the novel that Salman seems to espouse.
As rich as a rich novel can be and full of the wonderful sense of humour that sets him apart.
I can not wait to read the next book.
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Summary: His greatness
Review: Most writers, if you liked their book a lot you have to reread it to get that same experience. Not with Salman Rushdie. If you read "Midnights Children" and loved it, you can read "Shame". If you liked that, you can read "The Moor's Last Sigh." I read all three with a few years' spacing and that is how I recommend it, for thematically and in style the three are very similar. But each time you're in for a dazzling experience. Not for the linguistically challenged, however. If you are Rushdie you speak English, Indian, Latin, Greek, French and Italian, and blend all those into Rushdian, and that may put some readers off. But what's wrong with a dictionary anyways? Recommended!
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Summary: Set aside a month and read this book
Review: Whew! Reading "The Moor's Last Sigh" is like reading the dictionary or the bible straight through - it's tough as heck but when you're finished you'll be smarter, wiser and very exhausted. If you're up for a real challenge, take Rushdie's roller coaster.
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Summary: One of the Best Books ever written!
Review: Rushdie's The Moors Last sigh was honestly one of the, if not the, best book I have ever read. The intricacy and depth of the story, the endearing characters and the heartfelt emotion present in this book are unmatched. It comes highly recommended.
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Summary: corruption versus fundamentalism
Review: Vasco Miranda said something about corruption being the enemy of fundamentalism. It is food for thought for us who live under the shadow of constantly creeping exclusivist fundamentalism, whether catholic, muslim, born-again or hindu. Allies can be such strange bed-fellows.
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Summary: Why did I ever bother
Review: Salman Rushdie is a spent force. He makes the mistake of confusing linguistic gymnastics for literature. The characters in the plot are uniformly shallow and devoid of any interest. After reading the novel, one is left with a feeling of indifference.
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Summary: how does he manage it?
Review: Love, lust, revenge, big money, corruption, violence - all the ingredients for a typical masala mix for a Bollywood movie. But add the word Rushdie and you also get a feeling of such depth of emotion that even a mountain goat would get dizzy. It started off like any other good book, but its description of the Hindu-Muslim problems of the 1990s was so real that I had to go outside and just look at the stars. And his description of how a building exploded had me rushing out again. Never understood the word 'poetic' till I read that. How come he has not got a Nobel yet?
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Summary: Rushdie unsilenced.
Review: Moraes Zogoiby, the Moor, is a Jewish Portugese
Moorish Indian, as well as being one of four
children named Eeny, Meeny, Minah, and Mo
himself. Rushdie's pyrotechnical book is a
celebration of multi-cultural mixing and exuberant wordplay: Moraes is, he says, "a jewholic
anonymous, a cathjew nut". Sometimes this
wordplay mutates though mishearing ("What shall
we do with the shrunken tailor?") and sometimes it
is snappily invented from scratch, like the song
about Miss India, Nadia Wadia: "Nadia Wadia you've gone fardia/Whole of India
has admiredia . . . I will buy you a brand new
cardia/Let me be your bodyguardia."
Moraes treats us to the saga of his fantastical
family, whose fortune is based on pepper: "not so
much sub-continent as sub- condiment", as his
mother has it. She is a painter, and one of her
pictures (characteristically a palimpsest, a
hybridized painting-over- painting) is called The
Moor's Last Sigh. But it is not, Moraes insists, just
a "junkyard collage": "In that last work . . . she gave
the Moor back his humanity". Similarly, Rushdie's
book has a serious heart under its précis-defying
patchwork surface and cartoon- like characters. It
is unrealistic, no doubt because "unnaturalism is
the only real -ism of these back to front and
jabberwocky days", but it is a richly imaginative
work, showing Rushdie unsilenced and defiantly
firing on all cylinders.
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Summary: Rushdie writes his best novel yet.
Review: Salman Rushdie has done it! What an incredible novel. I recently finished a Rushdie-thon with "The Moor's Last Sigh" and was I amazed. I have always felt that Rushdie was gifted with a poetic language that transcended "the canon," but never before has he been so funny. I think his relationship with John Irving has seriously affected his writing. Many times I had to check the cover to make sure I wasn't reading Irving. Like Irving's "The Hotel New Hampshire," Rushdie has created a family drama that carries us through tragedy and comedy and keeps us laughing the entire time. My only question is: Where were the bears
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Summary: A funny, smart, dazzling reading experience.
Review: WOW! Rushdie has pulled off his best book since Midnight's Children, if not ever.
His narrator, Moor, recounts to us the tale of his extraordinary Indian family, a story of passion, art, and secrets. Rather than exploit him or make this a movie-of-the-week soap opera, Rushdie uses Moor's own physical and emotional challenges to enrich the story, and to involve and continually surprise the reader. This is an intelligent, witty family saga that will put you under a spell.
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