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Summary: Required Reading for Pleasure
Review: I had to read this book for a humanities lit class. I found myself really enjoying it. It is a really excellent book. It kind of made me feel like a little kid. It is such a fantasy story, but it isn't written for kids. It was quite inspirational too, it made me feel like everything would be ok. I have recomended this book to two other people, they loved it too. I don't want to tell you any of the plot because it suprises you as you read it, but it is a really good book. One that I would recomend to anyone who asks what to read.
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Summary: i just finsihed it. i thought it was the best book ever!!!
Review: Salman Rushdie really wrote a great book. I read this book in my English/Social Studies class and we all had a fun time reading it. We all were anxious to read the book because we would always stop at a good part and we really wanted to find out what happened. I think Salman Rushdie should write a sequal when he goes back to the moon Khani and sees all his friends: Iff the Water Genie, Blabbermouth, Mudra the Shadow Warrior, Batcheat,Prince Bolo,and all his other friends. My favorite part of the book was the end. How they find Princess Batcheat is such a good part. I don't want to explain it because you reviewers have to read it!!! I also like it after Rashid tells everyone the story. The first few words of the story that Rashid tells you at the end are actually told the same way in the begining. I really would recommend it!!!!!
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Summary: His sea of stories cannot be stoped
Review: What a story ! It certainly came from a vivid, colorful, and lively exhilarating Ocean of Streams of Stories. That Haroun, what courage, what cunning, what vision ! And his father, Rashid, the Shah of Blah, owner of a ocean-wide knowledge, who always repeated at him, "There's more to you, young Haroun Khalifa, than meets the blinking eye". By the way, talking about oceans and stories, there's nothing like the story-moon Kahani, where fantastically carismatic creatures live. Like Iff, The Water Genie, with his blue beard; the silent and tough Mali; the fast and sensitive Butt The Hoopoe; Prince Bolo ans his dashing, foolish ways; even prince Batcheat, her strumming voice, that teeth, that nose... but no need to go into that. When beginning to read the book I felt like flapping the pages of some storybook for childs, that ones printed in huge type and with lots of illustrations. The language is simple, altough clean and carefully crafted, the story is pretty straightforward and addictive; even the metaphores and allegories are just as simple and just as rich, adding to the feeling that this book can be read by simply anyone, despite the age. At some point the fantastical elements appeared with color, a flash, and a loud, rumbling chit-chat noise. I really liked the analogy real world-storyworld (similar to "The Wizard of Oz"), and the abundance of weird, beautiful, colorful, delightful, fantastical elements (which made me remember "Alice In Wonderland"). Most of all, I laughed almost all the time. At some level, that's exactly what the story is all about: fantasy, excitement, suspense, drama, adventure, imagination. But there's more to it, more than meets the blinking eye. The whole book is a funny metaphor about the art of storytelling, the flow of stories from the mouths or pens through our eyes or ears and our minds; the telling, and retelling, of the old tales that shaped mankind since the beginning; and the process of transformation and mixture of the old stories that give birth to new ones. It also can be viewed as a flagship in the conflict between Rashid, the storyteller, the Ocean of Notions, the personification of the art of telling stories, against Kattham-Shud, the anti-climax itself, the silence, the fanaticism and opression; by this point of view, the book shows Salman Rushdie's own voice, announcing to the world that his sea of stories cannot be stopped. Recommended to anyone that can take great pleasure from a great story.
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