Salman Rushdie's memoir

[danmand]

Is anybody else reading joseph anton? I find
it masterly written.

 

[Onelongfinger]

It is on my list. I am reading Ru and then the Imposter Bride, both on the Giller short list before I can get to it.

 

[scouser1]

does he dedicate a chapter thanking the Iranian government from turning a pompous, hotty totty, lousy writer into a celebrity getting busy with a woman way out of his league?

 

[Chimpanzeethat]

Not a bad read, but his decision to write a memoir in the third person was very annoying. It makes him seem incredibly pompous.

 

[Moviefan-2]

I have to confess, the 650-plus page length has discouraged me from picking it up.

I'm interested in his story but I'm not sure I'm that interested.

 

[Onelongfinger]

I have to confess, the 650-plus page length has discouraged me from picking it up.

I'm interested in his story but I'm not sure I'm that interested.

Perhaps you can wait for the DVD, Moviefan?

 

[darrenstevens]

I have to confess, the 650-plus page length has discouraged me from picking it up.

I'm interested in his story but I'm not sure I'm that interested.

Moviefan: I was initially deterred as well by the length, but once I started reading it I found it difficult to put down. It reads easily and the 600+ pages go by quickly. It is a fascinating story, and it's exceptionally well-written. And he addresses the views of people like Scouser1 above, the people who think he somehow "deserved" the fatwa because he was allegedly one or more of: a bad writer, arrogant, ugly, self-pitying, cowardly, misogynistic. His argument, and it's irrefutable in my opinion, is that even if he was those things, the true crime here was religious fanatics and their mindless followers who actually believe that written words should be punished by death. As I was reading the book, I tried to picture myself in his position -- I don't think I would look too pretty, either, to the uninformed public. Joseph Anton is a worthwhile read about a misunderstood situation in which a victim was harshly and unfairly judged by many (and that's not even including the wacko religious nuts).

 

[danmand]

Moviefan: I was initially deterred as well by the length, but once I started reading it I found it difficult to put down. It reads easily and the 600+ pages go by quickly. It is a fascinating story, and it's exceptionally well-written. And he addresses the views of people like Scouser1 above, the people who think he somehow "deserved" the fatwa because he was allegedly one or more of: a bad writer, arrogant, ugly, self-pitying, cowardly, misogynistic. His argument, and it's irrefutable in my opinion, is that even if he was those things, the true crime here was religious fanatics and their mindless followers who actually believe that written words should be punished by death. As I was reading the book, I tried to picture myself in his position -- I don't think I would look too pretty, either, to the uninformed public. Joseph Anton is a worthwhile read about a misunderstood situation in which a victim was harshly and unfairly judged by many (and that's not even including the wacko religious nuts).

Well spoken.