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The Likeness, Tana French*
Dangerous Liaisons, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos*
The King's Trial, David P. Jordan
Midnight's Children , Salman Rushdie*
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner*
The Black Death Transformed, Samuel K. Cohn
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgako ...
Just went through my tbr's in anticipation of next year and realized that I have two copies each of Midnight's Children and some other book which I can't now remember the title of, so will probably buy a third copy if I don't watch it! ;-)
Midnights Children , Haroun and the
Sea of Stories, and The Satanic Verses
... News Annie Proulx
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Midnight's Children , Slaman Rushdie
The Diceman, Luke Rhinehart
The Catcher in the Rye, J D Salinger
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
Frankenstein, Mary Shel ...
... time it was really too much. So I have decided only one tome at a time!~! And I am excited about Mark's group read of Midnight's Children coming up in March as I have yet to finish anything by Rushdie so I think the group will help me.
I also love your story of the children with their ...
... enlightening.
Thank you and if I don't see you in January with comments on World Without End, I will see you in March for Midnight's Children . It will be my intro to Rushdie as well. I have attempted a couple of his but never finished one so I think a group read of one will be just the ...
... read that I can't stop thinking about)
7. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner (confusing but spellbinding)
8. Midnight's Children , Salman Rushdie
9. Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto (A quiet, sweet book)
10. Battle Royale, Koushun Takami (The inevitable embarrassing-but-fun pick!)
#133 I am thinking of joining in with The Three Musketeers I would prefer February as I am also doing the group read of Midnight's Children (50 Book Challenge group) that will be in March. But I'm flexible and can probably cope with whatever is decided by the group.
... the narrator was annoying.
But it's been great reading others' comments: I've got Q and A on Mt TBR, and I did enjoy Midnight's Children when I read it some years ago. And Sea of Poppies is on Mt TBR too, I must get around to that one sooner rather than later (especially since now I ...
... Without End, we will be starting Jan 15th, keep in mind we all have a tbr mountain to tackle. I'm also planning a G.R. of Midnight's Children starting in March. Take care and hope to see you around!
Mark
I'm back after 2 1/2 weeks in Montana on vacation. While I was there I read Midnights Children which I loved and Animal Vegetable Miracle which was OK.
I am now finishing up The Tender Bar and just started Malone Dies. And I'm glad to be back.
Ellie- Sorry I thought you had joined us for Pillars! I'm planning on doing a group read of Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie in March. Several people have shown interest. Here's my link: http://www.librarything.com/topic/78161
I'm in if Midnight's Children is the selection, Mark.
... UW played them at the Petersen Events Center, though.
Interesting comment about Rushdie's and Forster's works. I read Midnight's Children years ago, but I haven't read A Passage to India.
Bonnie- Yes, I'm continuing to make the rounds of the "special ed" groups. It's my civil duty. Midnight's Children was your suggestion and I'm honoring that one and yes I will run that show, sometime early March.
... organized miscellany (oxymoron?) of all things bibliophilic.
On an unrelated note...Rushdie's protagonist's gfather in midnight's children . Dr Aziz, retires to the same region of India that EM Forster's Dr Aziz retreats at towards the end of his career in passage to india. Forster and Rus ...
... of the Dutch professor, especially as it is all reported second-hand, but the rest is very convincing ;-)
Meanwhile, Midnight's Children has been cast aside; will take it up again after the vampires.
... Lark and Termite is a must read! We are doing a group read of World Without End on Jan 15th and I think I'm going with Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie in March. Sounds like a very interesting choice!
Terri- Thanks for the visit! I've also seen you bouncing around the threads. Drop ...
I'll recommend Midnight's Children again, of the books you've mentioned that I've also read I enjoyed them all and I enjoyed Midnight's Children just a little bit more. It could be placed in the "I should have read this by now" or "On the road" category.
While Wandering Star keeps throwing back more and more books (keep 'em coming! I've loving them), I'm still on Midnight's Children . I've decided that this is a complete virtuoso display of literary technique (All that foreshadowing! Let's throw in a dash of stream of consciousness, then pan out ...
... this group read! I would recommend you hunt through you TBR pile for it.
Sign me up for the next group read. As for Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie is a new to me author (I keep meaning to pick up one of his books) so I would be curious to learn what others might think.
... 15th. Actually that's gives plenty of time if you haven't yet read Pillars of the Earth.
I'm considering doing a G.R. of Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie in March. I have never read this acclaimed author. Any interest?
There are some things on audiobooks I can take or leave - I'm in the middle of Midnight's Children now and audio is probably a disadvantage rather than an advantage, because it is a little harder to follow, harder to look back a few pages before, and doesn't have a really striking sound to it, ...
#41 Maybe I need to find Whose Body? next. :)
I have been meaning to check out Midnight's Children but always forgot. Thanks for the tip.
... but you probably already knew that.
If I may give you a suggestion for your 1001 list category: Salmon Rushdies Midnight's Children , one of my favorite books.
... read this since my failed attempt in my first year of Uni (about nine years ago now). I've also been determined to finish Midnight's children , A Prayer for Owen Meaney and The Grapes of Wrath - all of which i have left halfway through.
I think 2010 is THE YEAR for it. Anyone else got a ...
... above - any interim reports? Any questions about the prior works?
I'm in the middle of two works by Indian Writers, Midnight's Children , discussed briefly above, and The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth (which I'm likely to not discuss here since it's all about San Francisco). I'm about 1/4 ...
... of the Bharata)
4. Early India: From the Origins to 1300 by Romila Thapar
5. White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
6. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
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Ideas: This is going to include a bunch of books of the Mahabharata, which I'm working away at over a multi-year ...
... 20th and 21st century Indian writing. How to deal with it without becoming melodramatic or obsessive? In his forward to Midnight's Children , Rushdie praises the great Indian author Dickens for showing some of the way.
I am on the same books. Upstairs Midnight's Children , downstairs The Tender Bar
11: Wow, just looked that up and Midnight's Children won the Best of the Booker prize TWICE.
I knew it had won the Booker, although that's not why I chose it - I've found a few to be disappointing, or at least undeserving. This however, does not seem to be one of them.
Oops, got it a bit ...
Didn't Midnight's Children win the Booker of Bookers?
I have a reread of Stranger in a Strange Land planned for this month too.
Midnight's Children is one of my favorite books.
Currently reading: Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, pretty good so far.
8: In that case, I'm about 120 pages into Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. It's my first by this author, and I'm already very very impressed. Absolutely beautiful writing.
I am now about 1/4 through Midnight's Children , which I'm finding fascinating. Rushdie writes marvelously, and has a very long lead in giving the family history of our protagonist prior to partition. The protagonist is born with India in 1947, both of them being born exactly at midnight. We ...
October Summary
Oh, this is a sparse one - Midnight's Children took up a lot of time, but it was definitely worth the time. I only managed 4 books in 3 categories. Oh - and 4 Bonus Tracks thanks to an Early Reviewer book and some Library Books that were due.
1. The Book Thief by ...
Well, I have left Kashmir for Agra in Midnight's Children , and will be writing more in the India! thread, but am also suffering oppressively though nasty parents, a nasty village, nasty people, nasty times, and nasty images in Swabia/Romania in Herta Muller's Nadirs. I am just beginning to ...
I started Midnight's Children today; I felt like I'd been transported to Kashmir and Agra, pre-partition. I love hearing about making all the condiments...
For those who are musically inclined, I offer a short break for Mango Pickle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuEZRWZePc0&feature=related
Upstairs I am reading Midnight's Children , downstairs I am reading The Tender Bar
... anonymity, let them fly, but otherwise, I was remiss in not finding a way to list every soldier that trained with Saleem in Midnight's Children ...
And let me say - I'm okay if people track down character names - heck, the listings in Absolute Sandman and Lord of the Rings are amazing ...
I finished Midnight's Children last night. It took time, but it was definitely worth it - I didn't get to power through it like so many other books I've done this year, but I got an amazing story that's still spiking little questions in my head. This puts me up to 3/6 short-listed books for the ...
... you are welcome; nay, encouraged , to pimp your work at will!
Tell us more about the creation of your masterpiece, Midnight's Children , if you'd be so kind.
OK, that list was way too long! I've deleted it. If anyone wants the alphabetized list, tell me and I'll send it to you.
I've been reading Midnight's Children and very much enjoying it so far. Although the gossipy side of me wonders how it was when he first met Padma Lakshmi - very different descriptions. I do enjoy how she keeps our narrator's story on track.
I do have a Library Renewal sneaking up, so I have ...
... get beyond the first page. I suspect I'd probably have enjoyed it in my teens but I doubt I'll ever read it now.
9 Midnight's Children - on Mount TBR - shouldn't be long before I read it.
10 Moby Dick - nah, never gonna happen.
11 Ulysses - ditto
12 A Fine Balance - ...
... and reviewed Our Boys, which was a nice and quick read. A good non-sports sports book.
I started a few pages into Midnight's Children last night, but it was getting late. The optimist in me would like to get straight through this, but Library books are looming (I know - it's an evil ...
... succeed. What more could I want?
It's off the challenge list, but it looks like a fast read - I believe Mr. Rushdie's Midnight's Children is up next...
... to start on my two Booker Prize winners for this month as well - I've decided that they're The Siege of Krishnapur and Midnight's Children ...
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson
At the time I finished Midnight's Children , I was on vacation at my sister's summer cottage on a quiet little island in Maine. At first I picked up Mark Puls's Henry Knox: Visionary General of the Americ ...
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
I read Midnight's Children many years ago, and it had been one of my favorite books. I was delighted when my RL book group selected it to read this summer. As I started to reread it, I realized that I remembered very little about it, so it was almost ...
My best fiction for this quarter:
Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (a reread)
At Mrs. Lippincote's by Elizabeth Taylor
and nonfiction:
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richar ...
I am in the home stretch of A Prayer for Owen Meany. On deck is Independent People, our book club choice for the month. Midnight's Children will have to wait for a while.
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274 A Pale View of Hills
275 Schindler’s Ark
276 The House of the Spirits
283 The Comfort of Strangers
288 Midnight’s Children
294 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
297 A Bend in the River
I think for India, I will try to get to Midnight's children or something else by Salman Rushdie (either, the ground beneath her feet or satanic verses) since I have never read anything by him before. For nonfiction, I will also try to get to india by Stanley Wolpert, since I already have a ...
I'm a bit surprised Midnight's Children hasn't been mentioned yet. Fantastic book.
jane,
I won't groan. Rushdie annoys me. I do, however, have Midnight's Children on my tbr list.
A_musing,
On the basis of your strong recommendation, I just purchased Breathless in Bombay. I have finished the first story. It is wonderful.
And urania, I know you will groan -- but give me Rushdie -- The Moor's Last Sigh and Midnight's Children are gorgeous. I've had The Ground Beneath Her Feet sitting on the TBR pile for awhile, and if I have time in November, I shall read that.
jintster- Very interesting list! I'm saving Midnight's Children for a possible group read, (right Bonnie?). I loved The Road and the 1st half of Perfume and I have Secret River waiting in my tbr.
... Here's my current (it changes depending on what I can remember!) top 10 novels of all time FWIW. No particular order.
Midnight's Children by Rushdie
Vanity Fair by Thackeray
The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov
Cloud Atlas by Mitchell
Darkness at Noon by Koestler
Perfume: Stor ...
... have been told as a comedy). If you're looking for something with less realism, I recommend the Booker of all Bookers, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.
... I finished The Neon Rain. This one turned out better than I had anticipated. I haven't picked out my next read yet. Midnights Children is waiting for me at home but that's days away.
calm, I loved Midnight's Children . I hope you do too!
... Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - recommended by someone on LT (before I started noting where and who) and Midnight's Children I don't know why but I don't remember ever reading this!
So three new to me books!
... follow up to Pillars of the Earth with World Without End. That should be very exciting as well.
And then if we do Midnight's Children , I think you are looking at a fresh one about every 2 to 4 months, which is probably just about right.
later,
belva
... on my thread for providing me with one of my top picks of 2009. And, yes, I'll be watching for that group read of Midnight's Children for next year; I really want to read it (eventually) because it did get the 'Booker of the Booker' prize, but I'll need some hand-holding and, besides, ...
... keep track of it on the 50 Book Challenge, once again. Thanks for all the input, you've been great!
Bonnie- Let's keep Midnight's Children in mind for a future G.R.!
... I get home.
Paris Stories, Mavis Gallant
Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels
and I revisited one of my favorites, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.
... this G.R. She's wonderful! I think People of the Book might be in the lead right now.
Bonnie- I do like your choice of Midnight's Children !
... also read People of the Book and I thought it was ok but I preferred The Year of Wonders and March.
I could do Midnight's Children if that's being considered for a groupie.
... of that should have some very interesting discussions.
If bonnie's list is considered, I'd really really love to see Midnight's Children given a shot as a grouper.
... in doing a group read on any of these: The Alchemist, Bingo Palace, Family Matters, The Gathering, A Mercy, Midnight's Children , The Road, A Thousand Splendid Suns.
I loved Midnight's Children . Tomcat wrote a great review of it on his site. I have not read the others.
... Last Sigh. I enjoyed all three immensely. The reason my contrariness is only partial is that when a year ago I started Midnight's Children I gave up after about 20 pages, but it was, I think, because my mind was elsewhere, dealing with a crisis of some sort. So the problem, I am sure, was ...
... the book, rather than the book's quality itself. Despite my initial bad experience with Rushdie, I have been intrigued by Midnight's Children for several years now and hope to get around to it one of these days.
I gave up pretty quickly on the satanic verses. i started, and have enjoyed, what i've read of Midnight's Children - but i've managed to misplace the book somewhere in a rather small house - so haven't gotten past the first 100 pages. But when i find it....
So I've renewed and (as the title of this thread suggests) I'm very happy. I went for Midnight's Children , Oscar and Lucinda and Possession for my freebies - and they kindly threw in the diary too.
For my renewal books I took My Family And Other Animals, which is wonderfully whimsical, ...
Hola Murr. I read your review of Midnight's Children after finding it in the Hot Reviews. I even clicked over to your blog, something which I rarely do (follow links off LT, that is). I will admit that I only read taking up where the LT review began and downwards. But still wonderful review. India ...
Similar experience here, tomcatMurr. Absolutely loved Midnight's Children , but couldn't really get into The Enchantress of Florence or The Moor's Last Sigh. They both had their moments, but they weren't the complete package that Midnight's Children was. I have The Satanic Verses on my ...
I'm with you, Murr; I loved Midnight's Children but was highly disappointed with Shame, which I read in that same order. I have to remember that I do want to read The Satanic Verses in the very near future.
I will savor your full review later, over a glass of vodka.
ETA: I'm wrong; it ...
... Indian reading. I have made a note of everything and will try to pick up these books as and when I can.
I have completed Midnight's Children and put up my review here:
http://thelectern.blogspot.com/2009/08/midnights-children-salman-rushdie.html
I enjoyed MC immensely: I think it's a ...
I started Money late last week and am still reading that. However I also read the first chapter of Midnight's Children yesterday. That will probably be the next book.
Just started Midnight's Children , which I assume is on the list but haven't checked... This will be my first Salman Rushdie, so I'm looking forward to it.
... Pierre
3- India Kanthapura by Raja Rao
4- China Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
5- India Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
6- Canada Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
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... LauraBrook is probably the one to give you a recommendation. She mentioned at classics book group on Friday that she loved Midnight's Children and has read it at least twice.
She's also the one who picked Haroun and the Sea of Stories for the group read. She says it's the least-Rushdie of ...
... Jazz Age, Kevin Boyle
66. Homer and Langley, E.L. Doctorow
65. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Steig Larsson
64. Midnight's Children , Salman Rushdie
63. A Game of Hide and Seek, Elizabeth Taylor
62. Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading, Lizzie Skurnick
61. ...
Okay, I'm a bit more awake now after a nice two hour nap.
Murr, I loved Midnight's Children . Rushdie bashing seems to be a popular sport on both sides of the pond, but I happen to like his books. So far I've read three of the current longlisted books: Brooklyn, Not Untrue and Not Unkind ...
... all the previous Booker winners:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog+series/bookerclub
I'm currently rereading Midnight's Children which won in 1981 and then won the Booker of Bookers on the 40 anniversary of the prize. It is an exceptionally interesting and remarkable book. I ...
... I was trying to avoid being the next setter.
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(Clue: It has nothing to do with Midnight's Children )
... want to buy a copy and start reading it right away (but I think I have it at home). I'll be eagerly awaiting your review of Midnight's Children .
I'm glad to learn that LT's favorite and coolest cat survived the storm with no damage, wet fur, or severe Internet disruption!
I just recently bought my first Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children , but I'm not looking that forward to it--just finally feel like I absolutely should read it. Do you think you'll read any more Rushdie?
I learned so much about India from reading A Fine Balance, which is fabulously written, but devastating. Midnight's Children was also fabulously educational and entertaining, but more difficult to follow.
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I have finished A Suitable Boy and hope to write something about it in the next few days. I have been inspired to reread Midnight's Children , and the two books side by side are throwing up lots of interesting ideas. I seem to have found myself in India this summer. I plan to read Shame ...
And of course, don't forget
A Fine Balance
Midnight's Children
Shame
A Passage to India
The God of Small Things
The Seige of Krishnapur
The Painter of Signs
Urania, which version of the Mahabarata do you recommend
Well this week I have finished both Midnight's Children and the non fiction Team of Rivals and now am in the midst of Anna Karenina.
Also as a couple of short reads over the last couple of nights I have read Silk and The Alchemist, one of which I loved the other the polar opposite, as ...
Just finished Midnight's Children , never had such confused feelings about a book. Now moved back to Russia with Anna Karenina
I recently finished Midnight's Children , and whilst I won't say I didn't enjoy it, Rushdie's authorial voice started really grating with me, and I found the last 200 pages a slog. Then picked up Derrida's Spectres of Marx, which I have been enjoying - surprised to find so much Hamlet, it's a ...
Just finished The Karamazov Brothers and now this week I find myself 1/3 of the way through Midnight's Children .
I've not read a book that in the course of the 187 pages that I've read to date has caused such a cosmic shift in my view of it. Page 50ish, don't get it, don't like it, ...
Currently having my first taste of an India through Midnight's Children and after a shaky start I'm now enthralled :-)
... I've decided to have a break from the long Russian novel.
After some ruminating and scanning my TBR pile I've decided....Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.......a change of continent should refresh me :-)
... decided to have a break from the long Russian novel.
After some ruminating and scanning my TBR pile I've decided....Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.......a change of continent should refresh me :-)
as soon as i finish Rushdie! I've been reading 4 books in parallel, sort of. I've liked the first third of midnight's children a great deal.
Oh yes, that looks very interesting!!! Do tell us more. Also, Bobee Sahib, are you going to share your thoughts on Midnight's Children ?
I've really been slacking off in terms of my posting lately, but certainly not my reading. :)
I just finished Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. The man is a literary god, plain and simiple. There's not much else to say, other than it's nice to be very forcefully reminded every now ...
... lloway
Faust
Nausea
The Stranger
On the Genealogy of Morality
Critique of Pure Reason
The Ego and the Id
Midnight's Children
The Satanic Verses
A Tale of Two Cities
Dutchman and the Slave
To Kill a Mockingbird
My Name is Red
The Unknown World
Dreams from My ...
... lloway
Faust
Nausea
The Stranger
On the Genealogy of Morality
Critique of Pure Reason
The Ego and the Id
Midnight's Children
The Satanic Verses
A Tale of Two Cities
Dutchman and the Slave
To Kill a Mockingbird
My Name is Red
The Known World (Thanks for the ...
... A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam {8/15}
China - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie {2/21} {+2}
India - Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie {4/14} {+2}
Iran - Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour {7/23}
Israel - Minotaur by Benjamin Tammuz {9/8}
Jap ...
... Last Sigh. I think of Salman Rushdie as one of my favorite authors, but the truth is that is based on my experience with Midnight's Children and not much else. Neither of these two really worked for me, but I still appreciate his language, sense of humor and vision of the world. Somehow, I ...
... and I sometimes will reread one of those, The Golden Bowl comes to mind. I expect one can gain from rereading a book like Midnight's Children and I may read it again one day, but on the whole I have enough that I have yet to read to keep me busy.
... Khrushchev's cold war today - though taking frequent breaks to rest my left eye which was dilated ~ noon. Also reading Midnight's children which Patty got me for my bday and was worried that i'd buy it for myself before my bday arrived.
... still there, were considerably subdued in comparison to what I've read of Nabokov, as well as being better constructed than Midnight's Children . Internal literary games are fine if they don't get in the way of the work. For some of these the games are the work.
Reading Nabokov is like ...
62, 63, etc: I absolutely adored Midnight's Children - it's one of those very few novels that I would really give five stars to, a book that just swept me off my feet. Similar to how I felt when I read Sometimes a Great Notion. Funny how differently people react to books!
Rushdie's three great novels are Midnight's Children , The Satanic Verses, and The Moor's Last Sigh His books have less quality thereafter, especially The Ground Beneath Her Feet, which sucks egregiously.
I'd consider Midnight's Children a five-star novel, then again I read it in college ...
... verbatim, and probably never want to see it again. I don't think any of us put that much effort into reading a book.
Midnight's Children does not support one superficial reading as sufficient to gather and organize everything that's going on. That's one reason I gave it three stars. Had I ...
Midnight's children Rushdie.
1. Where did you get this book? B'day present from Patty
2. How much did it cost? nada
3. Why did you pick this book to read NOW? well..i'd mentioned several times recently that i'd like to read this book
4. How long has it been on your shelf? 1 evening
...
Patty gave me midnight's children earlier today, which i've been wanting to read for a good while. Just started.
... Kipling's Plain Tales from the Hills has been a very pleasant read and a refreshingly straightforward one after Midnight's Children . Gerard Durrell's My family and other animals makes 10. Unfortunately we are at the end of June so it doesn't appear that I am on track for 50.
... Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Capital Vol. 1 by Karl Marx
Ulysses by James Joyce
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
History of Sexuality (all three volumes?) by Michel Foucault
2666 by Roberto Bolano
On ...
I just finished the FS Midnight's Children . A spittoon would be very appropriate!
For bookmarks, I like metal bookdarts. No crease, extremely thin so it doesn't force the pages apart, no marks, etc. Of course, there might be an issue if you left one in for 10 years. Especially in those damp ...
... greatest writer and not having read any other Brazilian writers so far I'm happy to go along with that. I'm still reading Midnight's children but couldn't resist picking up the latest Anita Brookner, Strangers which I started last night. Brookner never lets me down.
mirrordrum, you've won me over with that passage, thanks.
From Rushdie's Midnight's children
"Is it possible to be jealous of written words? To resent nocturnal scribblings as though they were the very flesh and blood of a sexual rival? I can think of no other reason for Padma's ...
I'm 100+ pages into Rushdie's Midnight's Children so far it's been quite a rollicking ride.
>95 Stasia, I know someone will take me out and shoot me , but I just could not "get" Midnight's Children , the Booker of Booker's. Is it me? Definately not, it's them!
>96 Rich, the sad thing is it has sold over a million copies and deluded sad souls are being encouraged to get ...
... Ian McEwan (his best book)
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Possession, AS Byatt
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
Midnight's Children , Salman Rushdie
The Raj Quartet, Paul Scott
... the Crow reminds me very much of the beginning of The Master and Margarita (which I love). It has also been compared to Midnight's Children (which I hate beyond measure). It's certainly been an interesting follow up to The Emperor. While the intrigues and excesses of the Ruler's dictatorship ...
... the Crow reminds me very much of the beginning of The Master and Margarita (which I love). It has also been compared to Midnight's Children (which I hate beyond measure). It's certainly been an interesting follow up to The Emperor. While the intrigues and excesses of the Ruler's dictatorship ...
... But I found it very easy reading. This was several years ago. I read Arundhati Roy's God of Small things and Rushdie's Midnight's Children around the same time. Indian fiction is great. I also like Seth's poetry ("All you who sleep tonight" for e.g.). I listened to Bob a few months ago ...
Thanks, Mark, and thanks again for the recommendation. After reading The Enchantress, I will definitely look for Midnight's Children at some point.
... to read more by this author. I enjoyed your comments on The Enchantress of Florence. I have never read Rushdie. I have Midnight's Children sitting in my tbr somewhere but this one also sounds very interesting.
... wonderful, wonderful book. I cried 4 times. Several characters now amongst my favourites in literature.
Now 70 pages in to Midnight's Children - completely different, but again, I'm spellbound. Suddenly I have an urge to go to India! - I remember getting the same urge during A Passage To India ...
... by Jedediah Berry
Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Hotel On the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The House At Riverton by Kate Morton
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton ...
I've seen some buzz on Midnight's Children . If I've never read a Rushdie before, would you suggest I start with that one?
35. Midnight's Children , Salman Rushdie (category 8) ****
I probably should not have started this during finals, as it took me about three weeks to finish because of that. Although I really enjoyed the prize-winning novel, stretching it out over several weeks lessened its impact a bit. The story ...
Still slogging through Midnight's Children --it's wonderful, but it takes ages to get through because it's so dense. Too many characters to keep track of :) I think the work is worth it though, if the ending keeps up the same level of quality as the rest, I might have to add it to my list of ...
Haroun was my first Rushdie, but the plan is to read Midnight's Children or Satanic Verses later this year. I hope I like them as much as you did!
Not sure this is exactly what you're looking for but what about the picture of dorian gray. Or in Midnight's children various effects on the narrator in parallel to history. Or do these not count as its people not things?
Is there a name for this - it seems a bit like that device where the ...
... on Haroun! i thought it was OKAY, but i was a bit disappointed by it...it's my third Rushdie book (The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children being the others, of course...and The Satanic Verses being one of my favorite books ever...) it's not bad, but a little simplistic and not nearly up to ...
i do want to try midnight's children - i happen to REALLY like Freakangels, a comic that is surely an homage of sorts to MKids. But i disliked the Satanic Verses so much i have't brought myself to try it out yet.
... didn't like it. I guess I'm one of those that likes epic stories that are (IMO) told well (e.g., A House for Mr. Biswas, Midnight's Children , A Sea of Poppies).
Satanic Verses is my joint favourite Rushdie novel alongside The Moor's Last Sigh. I Liked it more than Midnight's Children , its so much more fantastical and imaginitive, and compelling. As for Ground Beneath Her Feet, that's the only novel of his I haven't read, mainly because the plot ...
... .
A collection of reviews. Gleeson-White has selected sixty-two great books, starting with The Iliad and ending with Midnight's Children . The book is of some use - I had never contemplated reading The Iliad but might try it, and I know now to stay away from The Words to Say it and Bl ...
I read Satanic Verses a long time ago and don't remember too much about it. I do remember more of Midnight's Children and Moor's Last Sigh both works of tremendous genius.
"Satanic Verses" had more hype than literary heft. It's like the hubbub over the Cruel Intentions movie. When I ...
... McAuley, MacAvoy. But there are other, wonderful authors whose works I've sampled and felt that one taste was enough: Midnight's Children was brilliant & engaging, but I have no desire to seek out Rushdie's other books. Irvine Welsh's Glue was a tour de force (once I could grok the ...
Trying to finish Midnight's Children before it has to go back to the library--I was on the waiting list forever the first time! As soon as school ends next Tuesday *crosses fingers* I'll probably dive right back in to Shogun.
... you finish.
Anyway, I have knocked off a fortunate life and death sentence (Don Watson) and am about to start on Midnight's Children . So things are moving along, although I suspect that I will struggle to reach 50.
... Fall Apart
South Africa*: J.M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K.
Asia:
India: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
Iran: Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis
Japan: Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Australia and the Pacific:
Australia: Nevil Shu ...
... -
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov, fun and funny, everyone on LT seems to like it
Salman Rushdie – Midnight’s Children is a good place to start.
Haruki Murakami – he has a very distinct style, A Wild Sheep Chase would be good to try, if you like more realistic - N ...
... get a leather-bound, illustrated version of My Family and Other Animals, Excellent Women, Lark Rise to Candleford, Midnight's Children , Things Fall Apart, The Long Weekend, Birdsong--well I won't go on at the risk of becoming tedious, but I think you have to agree that given the ...
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107. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem 04/11/09
108. Man in the Holocene by Max Frisch 04/14/09
109. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie 04/14/09
110. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 04/15/09
FILM: Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? (2006);
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107. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem 04/11/09
108. Man in the Holocene by Max Frisch 04/14/09
109. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie 04/14/09
110. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 04/15/09
I liked The Moor's Last Sigh so much more than The Ground Beneath Her Feet, which I still think is worth a read. Midnight's Children is up there with The Moor's Last Sigh, and it won the "Booker of Bookers."
wunderkind--some novels set in colonial India:
One Last Look by Susanna Moore
Heat and Dust by Ruth Jhabvala
Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie (starts with Partition)
Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh (about Partition)
White Mughals by William Dalymple (nonfiction)
Cracking In ...
... by Haruki Murakami
The best 10 books I've read so far:
A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
The Plague by Albert Camus
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Blindness ...
I loved both Midnight's Children and Satanic Verses I was a Rushdie fanboy until I read Ground Beneath Her Feet, which totally sucked.
I also had some Indian friends in college and took a class on Indian history, so I was probably more receptive to it than others. Plus, I like curries ...
Wahoo! The FS looks like they are publishing Midnight's Children in the spring. My daughter was just raving about it to me. Check out her review on LibraryThing. I've been meaning to read one of his books but haven't got around to it yet. Looks like the FS and my daughter are going to take care ...
... chief India wallah.
He also seemed to spend an awful lot of time talking about himself and his books.
I'm not a fan. Midnight's Children seemed good at the time, although I haven't been back to it, but The Ground Beneath Her Feet? My dears!
>They're not all dead, e.g., we read Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie the other month.
... My favourite bookers have been Staying on by Paul Scott, Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively, The god of small things, Midnight's Children and The Seige of Krishnapur.
I've been trying to mooch Midnight''s Children for what feels like an eternity, as I've heard many good things about it! It's supposed to be one of Rushdie's best, and it won the "Booker of Bookers" or sth like that, i.e. the best of all the books that have won the Booker prize. I still have it ...
... why he gave it a needlessly controversial title. Stroke of marketing genius that sort of had unintended blowback. I loved Midnight's Children , but come on.
... bought Haroun and will read it soon, but it will be my first and I've been wondering what I should try next. Sounds like Midnight's Children will be my next quest.
... read Haroun, but from your description it's VERY different from his other works. I've read The Moor's Last Sigh, Midnight's Children , The Ground Beneath Her Feet, and I think one other book that escapes me right now. Of those, the "best" is probably The Moor's Last Sigh. It is ...
Midnight's Children is my favorite Rushdie novel, followed closely by The Moors Last Sigh. I haven't read The Enchantress of Florence, but it will go on my TBR pile.
I read Midnight's Children last summer. It took me a while to get used to his style, but I found that he ended each section well and I loved the end of the book.
--BJ
... as I was very impressed with achievements but I couldn't read your book at all. Also apologies to Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children I never got beyond about the third page...
Stasia..
Once again you are on my wavelength. I just returned from the library when I obtained a copy of Salaman Rushdie's book Haroun and the Sea Stories. I hope to start it tomorrow.
#67 After doing a bit of research I've added Midnight's Children to my wishlist. I'm really interested in finding out about India the country and I love the atmosphere of all books set there. So thanks for the recommendation, and expect to see my thoughts in the future.
#68 Which thread is ...
have you read Rushdie's Midnight's Children ? if not, it's another great book on India you might want to try. a brilliant take on the Partition BUT only if you like magic-realism...
... the lust by getting it from the library. (Oh, the poor librarian..tee hee)
Example...I read from my TBR pile recently , Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie: my first Rushdie book. Great, it was. So I thought, I must read that other one that got everyone's knickers in a twist....Satanic Ver ...
... K. J. M. Coetzee
45. The Colour Purple Alice Walker
46. The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende
47. Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
48. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
49. The Cement Garden Ian McEwan
50. The Shining Stephen Kin ...
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Guyana - To Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite
Hungary - A Little Hungarian Pornography by Péter Esterházy
India - Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Iran - Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Ireland - Dubliners by James Joyce
Italy - The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
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... Death in Venice, The Scarlet Letter, Huckleberry Finn, The Pilgrim's Progress, Heart of Darkness, Jane Eyre, Midnight's Children , Macbeth, On the Road, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Crime and Punishment, Invisible Man, The Grapes of Wrath, A Room of One's Own, 19 ...
... a Traveler, 2006
72. Burger's Daughter, 2008
73. The Name of the Rose, 2005
74. Confederacy of Dunces, 2004
75. Midnight's Children , 2008
76. The Color Purple, 2008
77. Shame, 2004
78. The Handmaid's Tale, 2007
79. Love in the Time of Cholera, 2003
80. Bonfire of the Van ...
... 1982
234. Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, 1984
235. *Rites of Passage by William Golding, 2008
236. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 1981
237. Rabbit is Rich by John Updike, 1983
238. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende, 1983
239. Schindler's Ark ...
I really enjoyed reading Salman Rushdie's Midnight Children and am now currently reding The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carre
... by JG Farrell
5. The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer finished 9/11
6. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdiefinished 10/23
7. Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt finished 9/24
8. The Blind Assa ...
... that were nominated for the 40th anniversary Best-of-the-Best Booker Prize (I'm not on the formal name at the moment, but Midnight's Children won), and it turns out I've got a few others around the house already. This was a slam-dunk category to put together.
Read: 4 To Go: 5
TBR-To ...
Kim, Midnights' Children and now just finished The White Tiger
I really need to change sub continents, I think :-)
... just finished reading The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga.
It isn't a long book, which is quite welcome after reading Midnight's Children but it is a funny book. What is surprising about the book, and especially so being the Booker 2008 winner, is how simple an idea it was: then yet again ...
Well, that's that! Finished Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.
So glad I read this one. Really good. A contemporary classic.
What a great read! Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. An epic quest of chutney and pickle, noses, ears, and knees. You can tell you have read a good book by the amount of impromptu 'oohs' and 'aahs' and 'gasps' and spontaneous laughter it drags out of you.
Fantastic.
Book 2 of 2009
Bo ...
... ones here http://sites.google.com/site/meraciousincunabulum/Home/the-biggies
Also since I am currently reading Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie I've had a notion to read Satanic Verses too.
Now, here is the thing: normally I would without hesitation just buy these: in ...
I'd recommend Amsterdam by Ian McEwan, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, and The Life and Times of Michael K. by J.M. Coetzee.
... English: 57
top reads (in no particular order)
A Heart So White by Javier Márias
Liquidation by Imre Kertész
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
The Family of Pascual Duarte by Camilo José Cela
Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima
other memorable reads
Hunger by Knut Ha ...
Let's give it another shot
1. Bad Monkeys - Matt Ruff
2. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
3. The Child Garden - Geoff Ryman
4. Darwin's Radio - Greg Bear
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... Story by Christopher Moore
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
Jesus by Marcus J. Borg
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Buddhism for Mothers of Young Children by Sarah Napthali
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader by Bradley K. Ma ...
... books right now: Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer. Has anyone else read anything by this brilliant woman?
And Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. I'm still in the early stages, but I already know I'm going to be blown away by the end.
... :-) remaining of the Indian theme, I am starting on my first book of the year......
Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
I hope this lives up to all the hype, Winning the Booker (and Booker of Bookers)
Bliadhna mhath ùr!
... Kurt Vonnegut {3/30}
8. The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington {3/31}
9. The Bell by Iris Murdoch {4/6}
10. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie {4/14}
11. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe {4/30}
12. Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo {5/29}
13. The Gate of Angels by P ...
... Doctorow
THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett
THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
LOVING by Henry Green
MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie
TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell
IRONWEED by William Kennedy
THE MAGUS by John Fowles
WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhy ...
Books I Started But Didn't Finish
1. Midnight’s Children —Salman Rushdie
2. One Hundred Years of Solitude—Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. White Teeth—Zadie Smith
4. All Quiet on the Western Front—Erich Maria Remarque
5. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union—Michael Chabon
...
I picked up Midnight's Children while on vacation and put it down after five pages. It just wasn't grabbing my attention and I had soooo many other books lying around. I guess I should give it another try.
Midnight's Children has been on Continent TBR for a century now, since my local library does not have it. I am obviously going to have to go further afield for it. Thanks for the wonderful review!
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie – brilliant, extraordinary, Rushdie is a storyteller par excellence and he truly dazzles in this epic tale.
The novel begins at the stroke of midnight 15 Aug 1947, we are in Bombay and witness to the birth of one Saleem Sinai which coincides ...
... up one of my orders and forced me to go in today to exchange those 4 books. I came back with 7:
The Overcoat by Gogol
Midnight's Children by Rushdie
Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day - Winifred Watson
The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson
A Florentine Death - Michele Giuttari
The Luminous ...
... (completed 1/25/09) ****
2. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner (Nobel laureate 1949) (completed 3/09/09) ****
3. Midnight's Children , Salman Rushdie (Booker Prize 1981) (completed 5/19/09) ****
4. Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson (National Book Award 2007)
5. Catherine, Called Birdy, ...
I have finished Midnight's Children a few days ago. It was probably the most challenging read for me for years, because English is a foreign language to me, and because I don't know very much of India's/Pakistan's history, religions, and mythology. Anyway, I enjoyed the novel, and I may at least ...
... writers are famous for all the RIGHT reasons (besides pissing off Muslims).
I don't know how consistent he is, but Midnight Children just got a big bump on my tbr list...
I have just ordered a few new books which I hope to eat over the holidays...
Kim, The Raj Quartet and Midnight's Children
Littérature contemporaine
1. Midnight's Children de Salman Rushdie
2. Atonement de Ian McEwan
3. My Sister, my Love de Joyce Carol Oates
4. Le Planétarium de Nathalie Sarraute
5. L'Annonce faite à Marie de Paul Claudel
6. Les Particules élémentaires de Michel Houellebecq
7 ...
You mentioning that Midnight's Children was worth the read just moved it towards the top of my TBR list. I like Rushdie, but haven't read that yet. Been planning on it, but never get around to it...
... books, please. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde may be a start, but it doesn't go far to offsetting The Brothers Karamazov, Midnight's Children and Pillars of the Earth. You need at least another five novellas before you can even think about adding World Without End or Sepu ...
... by Denis Johnson - National Book Award, 2007 (1/01/2009)
5. The Road by Cormac McCarthy - Pulitzer Prize, 2007
6. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie - Best of Booker, 2008
7. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell - shortlisted for Costa Novel Award and LA Times Book Prize for Fiction, ...
... by Elie Wiesel
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
The Yellow Wind by David Grossman
The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski
93. The Time of Light by Gunnar Kopperud
94. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
95. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
96. Granta's The Anthology of New Writing No. 15
97. The Native Commissioner by Shaun Johnson
98. The Sorrow of Belgium by Hugo Claus
I'm about halfway through Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and loving every bit of his writing. Perhaps next will be Gunnar Kupperund's The Time of Light.
... I have touchstoned those that seem most relevant, i.e. books where the city seems to play a central part. A novel like Midnight's Children tells the story of a nation, and does not focus much on a single city.
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Sh ...
... of the Bharata)
4. Early India: From the Origins to 1300 by Romila Thapar
5. White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
6. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
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Ideas: This is going to include a bunch of books of the Mahabharata, which I'm working away at over a multi-year ...
To summarize your nudges:
Midnight's Children has 'won' and I have started reading it yesterday. It is a bit early to comment on it, but I am impressed so far, although it needs more than the usual focus on the text.
Runners-up were The Voyage Out, Ethan Frome and Phineas Finn. All of ...
#103 The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
So, I'm sure that technically Midnight's Children is a better book than The Enchantress of Florence, but I have to admit that I liked Enchantress much, much better.
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My end-of ...
The only one I've read is Midnight's Children . It's challenging, but worthwhile. Not my favourite Rushdie though.
I've read half-way through The Voyage Out. Not the most interesting of Woolf's books. But I plan to give it another try one day because I do love her so.
... I enjoyed in my late teens and early twenties. Fast read and I seem to recall quite political.
Ethan Frome terrific. Midnight's Children a challenging book you have to devote yourself to, in the same way you'd read the Russians.
Denudge Ship of Fools which I found ponderous.
The Ir ...
I recently read Midnight's Children . I found the beginning of it difficult. However, as I read along, I found it much easier to follow. Overall, I think that this is a great book to read but in small chunks. I am not sure that this sounds like a recommendation but it is. I am really glad ...
I love Virginia Woolf and Michael Ondaatje but if I nudged them they would be nudgoids! (refer to the glossary).
So, Midnight's Children appeared on my tbr and I hope to tackle it soon.
On Beauty I really liked despite the general criticism it received so I'm going to nudge that.
Altho ...
I'm going to nudge Midnight's Children because i've started to read it and enjoying it very much.
... written. She seems to be one of those polarizing figures- equal numbers love or loathe her works. I would also nudge you to Midnight's Children because I've been looking into it and planning on buying it soon.
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The Son of Circus by John Irving
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter
In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
The Informer by Liam O'Flaherty
Oldest Livi ...
VIII. POST-COLONIAL
1. Shame by Salman Rushdie
2. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
3. Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said
4. The Algebra of Infinite Justice by Arundhati Roy
5. David's Story by Zoe Wicomb
6. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
7. One Hundred Years of Solitude ...
Thanks for the Rushdie advice......I think Midnight's Children is also on the list, so I'll start there!
... is very dense but I love its richness and lyricism..It takes me a lot longer to read a Salman Rushdie book! I have read Midnight's Children and The Ground beneath her feet. The books are an acquired taste and I have to admit I have never finished the Satanic Verses. Midnight's Children ...
... by Leo Tolstoy
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Age of Innocence by Edit Wharton
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
and
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
... didn't know it came in red flavour). Anyway, it's an excellent book and not a difficult read (you really have to be UP for Midnight's Children ).
... fast read, so why not.
The Eye in the Door - yes, but read the Trilogy.
I agree with almigwin, about Damage
And Midnight's Children ! What a great list. Stay home and read.
#24 Thanks, nancyewhite! I thought that Midnight's Children took some getting used to, so that as you read along it does get somewhat easier. However, the book does not have the soaring language of some other books. I think that it is a good book to take in small chunks. I had been wanting ...
Hi, I'm Joyce, and Karen invited me over here. Anyway, the only book I've read in your picture is Midnight's Children . I recommend it, but you have to be in the mood for its style, and you also have to prepared to think. If this were my stack, I'd read Oscar and Lucinda because I've heard lots ...
Congratulations on your great reads! I loved The Thirteenth Tale too.
You are inspiring me to try to pick up Midnight's Children again. I abandoned it in the middle of the group read after I finished Book 1.
... This Dark House by Guy Gavriel Kay.
Seeing Things by Seamus Heaney (whose name I can't spell to save my life. >>)
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Possession by A.S. Byatt
and Low Red Moon by Caitlín R. Kiernan. Half of them are even books I'm supposed to be reading for ...
... are fair game.
1. March by Geraldine Brooks
2. The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
3. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
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Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
Lord Of The Flies - William Golding
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Still going with Midnight's Children . It's the third time I've picked it up. I've got further this time than before - I've read about 50 pages - but I keep putting it aside to read other books.
Finally! One I've read. So, yes to Midnight's Children . Anyone for The Waves, by Virginia Woolf?
Haven't read Grimus yet but, since I just finished it and found it completely absorbing, how about Midnight's Children ?
... PiyushChourasia!
What did you think of The Satanic Verses? I had been wanting to read that, but I just recently read Midnight's Children and found it pretty difficult although ultimately rewarding.
--BJ
>78 msf, I hear a lot of people recommending that as a first read, so I say go full-tilt-boogie into Midnight's Children .
If I were to start you on a Rushdie readership, I would hand you a copy of The Satanic Verses and send you off to a corner to snerkle, wrestle, and puzzle your way ...
... cents each)
Blaze by Richard Bachman Haven't heard a lot about this book but Stephen King has been on a roll!
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. I have never read this esteemed writer, is this a good place to start?
... on the top of my TBR pile. I can't wait to read it, but I'm in the middle of another Booker Prize winner at the moment - Midnight's Children .
... much coffee nowadays.
Those of you who aren't reading Kristin Lavransdatter: What are you reading now? Bleak House, Midnight's Children , or something else?
Fortunately no winter yet.
I've had a break from reading for some days now, redecorating one of our bedrooms. Glad I did, just ...
Children of Midnight by Salman Rushdie
... 2008).
From 01.08.08 to 31.12.09 makes 518 days.
518 x 30 pages = 15540 pages.
Finished books from August 1 2008:
Midnight's Children : 466 pages
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: 268 pages
In Search of Lost Time, volume I: 558 pages.
=1292 pages, i.e. approx. 2 ...
... Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey and Silk by Alessandro Baricco in the last couple of weeks. Last night I started Midnight's Children , which has been sitting in my TBR pile for over a year now.
... Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul, and A Dance to the Music of Time.
The long books that I am trying to tackle are Midnight's Children (I finished this one), Bleak House (I am only halfway through this one), The Quest for the Northwest Passage (pretty near the beginning of this one), ...
... books which don't count for my categories.
I added 2 books to my 1001 category, which really needed it! The first was Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. This was a tough book to read, especially at first, because of the writing style. I am glad that I read it. I thought that the ...
... now reading three more long books, too. I never saw a group read that I didn't like! Here are the next 5 books:
46. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. This was one of the long books and I did finish it. I found it difficult to read, especially at first. However, I was rewarded ...
... Spring Leaves - because Ichiyo so authentically captures growing up and coming of age in this collection of short stories
Midnight's Children - for magic and the will the to do good in the world
Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life - for tears and truth
the God of Small Things - for beauty ...
... Spring Leaves - because Ichiyo so authentically captures growing up and coming of age in this collection of short stories
Midnight's Children - for magic and the will the to do good in the world
Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life - for tears and truth
the God of Small Things - for beauty ...
... buy Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi, and came out with that plus three others: The Book Thief (Markus Zusak), Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie) and Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum (Richard Fortey). I thought that keeping to four was quite ...
... sequel to Star of the Sea is Redemption Falls which is also in paperback.
Yesterday I was bad at Borders. I got: Midnight's Children , Brother, I'm Dying and Arsonist's Guide to Writer's Homes in New England.
... I'm hoping some of you will take a group read on it.
Anyone going to read two loong books simultaneously?
I did read Midnight's Children , but I had to postpone Bleak House.
#73 MusicMom41 : Actually I hadn't really read any Rushdie book until now : I didn't manage to read Midnight's children some ten years ago (but am planning to try again sometime). I picked The Enchantress of Florence because I absolutely couldn't resist the entrancing cover of the Jonathan Cape ...
#51 I finished Midnight's Children and I am about 1/3 of the way through Bleak House. I am really enjoying it and plan to finish it before moving on. That being said, it is fine with me to move on to another group read. I did not post in the other thread, but I will go and look it over. Tha ...
Hi,
I'm here to ask some questions:
Where are you in Bleak House and/or Midnight's Children ?
Are you ready for a new group read? Approx. when?
(I finished Midnight's Children some days ago, and I've placed Bleak House in my TBR pile, so I would like to take a new group read soon. I'v ...
... enjoying it even if I'm slow starting so I'll be one of the people re-activating the old threads! I'm about 5 pages into Midnight's Children but I'm determined to finish them both! Grrrrr! Lookng forward to the next one, but I think if there are two books this time, I might only read one...
... and sunny.
Looking forward to the next group read. I'll not participate in reading two books this time. I managed only Midnight's Children , and had to postpone Bleak House (I'll surely read it later on if I find it on my (rather huge) TBR pile).
#155 - I've only ever read Midnight's Children by Rushdie; but I liked it well enough and think it is thought to be his best work and quite accessible.
And I'll start the jumping on you for not reading Atwood. She's great! However, I have read almost all her major novels and the only one I ...
Hello I've just joined and I'm trying to workout how to use this place...I read Midnight's Children quite a while ago but it really struck me as an amazing work. Very big concepts involved, to say nothing of making them into a story that included so many angles on life and had splashes of humour. ...
Nickelini, I agree with both you and Lyzadanger on Midnight's Children . I've avoided Rushdie ever since. Do you have any recommendations as far as his essays go? I feel like I should give him another shot, but I'm afraid of his novels.
Midnight's Children , Salman Rushdie
This is the third Rushdie novel that I've read, and I was surprised that I still find him difficult to read. I really like his writing, but reading Rushdie's fiction is so much work (I prefer reading his essays). On the review page for Midnight's Children ...
Glad to see this contemplation upon 'The Next Read'. I have been quiet because (how stupid can I be) I left Midnight's Children in France!! Says a lot for the book. Anyway, I digress.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy I would love and also I have never read Ivanhoe by Sir ...
... ooks
The Comfort of Strangers
July’s People
Summer in Baden-Baden
Broken April
Waiting for the Barbarians
Midnight’s Children
Rites of Passage
Rituals
Confederacy of Dunces
City Primeval
The Name of the Rose
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Smiley’s Pe ...
I'm very happy to report that I've completed Midnight's Children . Now I can read something else over the weekend. Comments to follow when I get back.
I finished Midnight's Children today and I'm not sure what to think about it. My ambivalence is due to Rushdie's style and his way of incoherent (it is mainly chronological, though) story-telling. But I've learnt rather much about India and its history.
I guess this is a novel that will ...
Finished Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.
Continuing Bleak House by Charles Dickens.
(And Plato, cf. #65)
... using punctuation: sometimes more successfully than others. But I agree with the jist of your comment.
I just finished Midnight's Children for the Group Reads - Literature read, and am beginning The Book of the New Sun for the Group Reads - Sci Fi read.
... much of a childhood. So, I guess that I am not sure about the doll. On the whole, this book is a lot easier to read than Midnight's Children . I don't think that I will read it rapidly because, after reading the Rusdie book, I need a few breaks here and there for shorter works. However, this ...
71. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Well-written, but I'm quite glad I'm finished.
72. In a Summer Season by Elizabeth Taylor
Given to me by a very generous LT friend. It was just what I needed to recover after my last book wore me out.
I just finished Midnight's Children . I must say I have mixed feelings about this book. While the style and what Rushdie was doing with his story within a story technique really blew me away, what was inside the technique was kind of boring at times and felt like a slog. The entire book reminded ...
... Young Children by Sarah Napthali and an ARC of The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell. I am still dragging around Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. I read a page or two periodically, but I can't say I'm enjoying it or that I'll make it till the end.
I finished book 2 today, and I enjoyed it, but I think Midnight's Children is a novel one should read several times to "completely" understand it (if that's the point). Well, I do understand most of it and I guess I'll understand even more when reading book 3. It's interesting to see how Rushdie ...
... quite enjoyable. Yesterday I started Restoration by Rose Tremain. Still reading North and South and picking at Midnight's Children , Excellent Women, and The Hindi-Bindi Club.
...
I enjoyed it, but would not read it again, at least not until I had forgotten that I read it.
I'm currently reading Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie for the classics group read. I hope to finish it by the end of next week or sooner and then I'll dive into The Book of the New Sun ...
Five chapters of Bleak House finished.
seven chapters left of Midnight's Children
ISOLT: page 260 (volume 1)
I'm here with my coffee. I just want to say that for me, Midnight's Children is a much more difficult read than Bleak House. I'm about half way through MC and it is getting easier, but it's work. I'm enjoying it on one level, but it's also exhausting.
I finished Bleak House a couple of weeks ago and am about 2/3 of the way through Midnight's children of the two, Bleak House is the more enjoyable, although I like Midnight's Children, it's po-moness gets in the way sometimes. I have to stop and think about what's going on on more than a ...
I'm still only on the first couple of chapters of Bleak House and Midnight's Children because I got shamelessly distracted by Twilight and the latest Kathy Reichs. Well and truly looking forward to some classic lit now!
Hello, everyone!
I just wanted to say "Hi!" I read Midnight's Children and plan to start Bleak House soon. I need a short break, however, between two such long books. I joined LT to help me to get back into the reading habit. I am starting to really enjoy reading again. At the same time, I ...
... been marvellous so far. Very nice weather (sun, high temperature) and some new (second hand as well) books.
I'll finish Midnight's Children in about ten days and have started reading Bleak House (five chapters). I suppose I'll need at least three months to finish BH, because I have to ...
... of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer and Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi,
for India anything by Narayan,
Midnights Children by Salman Rushdie,
Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer-Jhabvala,
The Namesake and The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri,
or Bric ...
... I finished book one on Thursday and switched to an LT Early Review book for the weekend.
I thought there was a chance Midnight's Children might languish in "benign neglect", but this morning found myself wondering what happens next. So, that's a good sign!
I just hope that I can find a ...
I've set a goal to read two chapters a day from Midnight's Children . When I'm done that, and I still have time, I'm reading High Rise, by JG Ballard.
I'm reading Midnight's Children and am ready to begin with Bleak House.
BH has an interesting introduction by Nabokov, and MC has an essay by the author (Salman Rushdie).
Both novels are group reads (LT group: 'Group Reads - Literature').
I'm thinking Rushdie but not Midnight's Children ... rings a bell from somewhere, but I don't know where.... Shame?
... morning.
I'm another fan of Enduring Love! I thought it was fascinating. And I've read a few Salman Rushdie books - Midnight's Children was awesome, but quite heavy going at times. I thought The Ground Beneath Her Feet was a much more accessible book, and still a great read. I've read ...
I'll read one chapter of Midnight's Children a day. Hope to finish it in a couple of weeks.
ISOLT: page 180.
Bleak House next !!
... is that correct?
Anybody with other native languages reading this novel in English?
I'm reading one chapter of Midnight's Children (in Norwegian) a day, and I'll finish this marvellous novel in a couple of weeks.
Two interesting web-sites about Dickens:
http://charlesdickenspag ...
Midnight's Children ?
I want to say Midnight's Children ... I read it ages ago and am about to start again and I'm sure I've read this somewhere and the style sounds similar.......
... liked Case Histories too. For a mystery fan, it is always nice to find something so original.
I am reading (very slowly) Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie and White Nights by Ann Cleeves which I started last night. It is my LT Early Review book and is set in the Shetland Islands ...
... Both were a little work, but for the most part I enjoyed them, and in the end both were very rewarding. I know I'll love Midnight's Children once I get into it, but my brain is not really in concentration mode these days, so it's probably just not the right time for me to tackle it. And ...
... from childhood to adulthood, preferably by authors who could be described as postcolonial.
- Examples include Midnight's Children and The God of Small Things
Any suggestions are welcome.
... (not the kind of book you need to read all in one gulp).
I'm now on to Sense and Sensibility, and chipping away at Midnight's Children for the group read.
... introduction. I haven't read any essays by Rushdie, but I guess they are less "phantastic" than his fiction writing (i.e. Midnight's Children ).
Any suggestions of Rushdie's essays?
Progress in August
35. The Waves
36. The Reluctant Fundamentalist
37. The Other Boleyn Girl
38. Midnight's Children
39. Alice, I Think
I started the audiobook of The Lace Reader this afternoon. So far, I'm enjoying it.
Still working on Midnight's Children , Excellent Women, North and South (again--a reread), and The Hindi-Bindi Club.
... The Peanut Allergy Answer Book twice since my two year old son's diagnosis on Tuesday. I'm also reading Rushdie's Midnight's Children along with a bunch of other folks for the Group Reads group and, in a largely unsuccessful attempt to lighten my heart, Fearless Fourteen by Janet Ev ...
... a Yellow Sun, skimmed the rest, and am working on reading it over more carefully; just started The Hindi-Bindi Club and Midnight's Children ; and am rereading North and South.
I am still reading Midnight's Children and also reading Lord of the Flies.
... three days, and as I'm not a very fast reader, I'm impressed of myself, so to say.
Right now I'll continue my reading of Midnight's Children (Book 2, the chapter "All-India Radio", Group Read).
I've read 120 pages (out of 3650) of In search of lost time, reading ten pages a day. (#55: ...
I've got Earth Inc, The Age of Innocence, The Double Helix, Bleak House and Midnight's Children on the go at the moment. I didn't even know the Twilight books existed until all the Breaking Dawn posts. I'm really feeling the lack of a good series read since HP bit the dust - do ...
... n
57. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid
58. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War & Unholy Terror, Bernard Lewis
59. Midnight's Children , Salman Rushdie
My copy of Midnight's Children just arrived from Amazon. I'm looking forward to reading this book, but I must finish my palate cleanser after Bleak House, a rather ordinary SF piece named Earth which I plan to have done with by Friday.
Reading something like Earth immediately after Bleak ...
... by Charles Nicholl and have moved on to Roddy Doyle's The Woman Who Walked Into Doors. In print, just started Midnight's Children .
... which I threw against the wall on Saturday (see #71)
>90: Ex_Libris, a couple of classics there, eh? I read and enjoyed Midnight's Children not long ago, and my daughter is about to start The Jungle as part of her summer reading requirement for 10th grade English. I am assured reading ...
I've just started Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie today and am listening to The Jungle by Upton Sinclair on CD for commute reading.
I'm in India with Salman Rushdie and his Midnight's Children and am going Swann's Way (France) with Marcel Proust. I guess I'll stay in France for about a year, but I'll leave India in a month or two.
I'll surely recommend In Search of Lost Time. And Midnight's Children as well.
... in MC (cf. James Joyce, Virginia Woolfe a.o.), don't you think?
I just started on book 2, the most comprehesive part of Midnight's Children . I guess I'll have to spend about three weeks reading book 2.
I've finished Breaking Dawn, and so I'm headed back to The Shadow of the Wind. Also planning to get going on Midnight's Children this week.
Started reading Book 2 of Midnight's Children . Group read.
Reading In Search of Lost Time (page 60 of 3660 pages. A real challenge.
Reading The curious incident of the dog in the night time. Funny.
... no advantage over the man who can't read them." ... I wonder what was in his library?
I haven't gotten any further in Midnight's Children ; but I shipped off my kids to grandma's house for a month, this should give me some more reading time. I was also lucky in getting an Early Reviewer ...
... plugging our dear LT with her.
I'll go back when I have some time to kill. In the meantime, I walked out with a copy of Midnight's Children .
... by Carl Sagan
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
I am planning to read in August for this category:
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Under Children's Lit, I have read:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol ...
Should we find a new 'Quote of the month' for August?
Any suggestions?
Anyone started reading Midnight's Children ? I've just finished book 1 of my Norwegian version. I haven't received the English edition yet. Magnificent novel so far :))
As soon as I receive my copy of Midnight's Children I intend to start it. Damn you Amazon.com!
I finally red-X'd their threads because I was feeling left behind. I'm still waiting for Midnight's Children to arrive so I can begin reading.
... doesn't exactly describe Rushdie either. I haven't read his stuff yet but if I can ever finish Middlemarch, Midnight's Children might be my first.
I am also in India with Midnight's Children .
i just started Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.
I am in France (Combray) with Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time, and in India with Saldam Rushdie and his Midnight's Children .
I imagine I'll spend about one year in France and a month or two in India.
And I'm hoping to go elsewhere as well.
Still reading Midnight's Children .
Just started to re-read Swann's Way.
Planning to read the whole novel In Search of Lost Time, using my Norwegian edition 'På sporet av den tapte tid' in 7 volumes (3665 pages).
I imagine it a real challenge.
... Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell. Need to start an Early Review book, Woman of a Thousand Secrets, and also Midnight's Children for a group read.
I'm going to re-read The Idiot in about three (four?) weeks from now.
I have to finish Midnight's Children (by Salman Rushdie) which I'm currently reading. It is a great novel, as well.
I'm really looking forward to reading Dostoyevsky again.
I remember Myshkin in The Idiot as one of Do ...
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
... today. Now I've really got used to the "Rushdiean" style, and I LIKE it. And what a story (so far)! I think I'll finish Midnight's Children in about four weeks. It is such an amusing, humorous and interesting story, that I just HAVE to continue to see what happens next.
Very exciting ...
... to group reads called "Group Reads - Literature". They are currently reading Bleak House by Charles Dickens and Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. You can read either or both books. Like drneutron said, there are other groups around that do group reads. I hope you find one ...
... the contemporary Norwegian author Jan Kjærstad (three novels (about one main character) in one volume (1.500 pages)
and
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (about 550 pages).
Have you been reading any voluminous books lately? Favorite(s)?
... (three novels in one volume, about 1,500 pages) by the contemporary Norwegian author Jan Kjærstad.
(And still reading Midnight's Children )
Currently reading:
Midnattsbarn by Salman Rushdie (Group Reads - Literature, cf. #50,51), page 90 out of 460.
Re-read:
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
I'm in India with The Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie, 1981)
I haven't got the English edition of MC yet, so I have to use a Norwegian version (Midnattsbarn )for the time being. I found the English titles of the chapters on SparkNotes, and I will refer to them commenting the novel.
I guess I'll have to use SparkNote's character list to learn about the ...
#9
I've started reading Midnight's Children , and I think I'll use some months finishing it (seems rather "difficult" and curious to me). I've also some new novels by Norwegian authors I ought to read, so I won't participate in the group read of Bleak House this time. I guess I'll have to ...
I just received my copy of Midnight's Children in the mail, so I'm in, although it may take me awhile to get to this one. My TBR stack is a wee bit out of control right now...
I just posted a new topic for BOOK 1 of Midnight's Children .
I'm looking forward to read your comments (opinions, questions, answers etc.)
:-))
This topic is for your comments on book 1 of Midnight's Children .
Until I receive an English version of MC (about August 1st) I'll read my Norwegian edition (Midnattsbarn ). Just started.
I found a lot about this novel on SparkNotes:
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/midnightschildren
I've just started reading Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. I'm reading my Norwegian edition Midnattsbarn, and will participate in a group read and discussion at the LT group 'Group Reads - Literature'. I hope to receive an English edition in a couple of weeks.
Started reading my Norwegian edition of Midnight's Children : Midnattsbarn.
... and a half books (I should say, my bank account feels fortunate).
The haul:
Quincunx by Charles Palliser
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Restoration by Rose Tremain
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
All Over Creatio ...
I went to the bookstore to pick up Midnight's Children and just happened to wander over to the Dickens section. There I found an edition of Bleak House with an introduction by Mary Gaitskill who I adore. So with a typical lack of restrain, but against my better judgement, I bought it and ...
From Borders for the Group Reads - Literature next books:
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
and from the $3.99 box:
Potty Train Your Child in Just One Day by Teri Crane (Cross your fingers that this actually is possible!)
Finished Tilfeldigvis - Arial Footlights forhistorie.
An exciting and curious phantasy novel.
Next:
Midnight's Children with "Group Reads - Literature"
Should we split the comments (discussions) of the novel into three different topics, following the three books of Midnight's Children ?
I was away and didn't vote, but I'm happy to read Midnight's Children . I bought a copy last month and had planned to put it aside for a while, but I couldn't resist reading the introduction and from there I was hooked. Just have to finish off the two other books I'm working on first.
... temporarily. Maybe in some 6-8 weeks.
I imagine this thread will excist for some months.
I'm first going to read Midnight's children (starting about August 1st).
Reading Tilfeldigvis.
I've read about 300 pages out of 720.
A page-turner.
In a week or two I'll start reading Midnight's children with 'Group Reads - Literature'.
... scandal.
I'm already into Bleak House and hope to have lots of reading time during next week's vacation. Then onto Midnight's Children . End of September sounds reasonable. Two exciting books - all this and heaven too!
Hello Rushdie lovers,
LT "Group Reads - Literature" is going to read Midnight's Children , July & August please come join us -- It would be good to have some experienced Rushdie readers.
I'll start with Midnight's Children too. I better go scrounge a copy.
... with the out come of our selection process -- Two good summer reading books. I'm going to try to do both, starting with Midnight's Children and then Bleak House.
Very much enjoy this LT group.
I'll begin with Midnight's Children and see how long it will take finishing it. Then I'll read Bleak House if I'm in the mood for it.
I guess the two (or more if we split the books as we did with the previous novels) threads will excist for a long time (?).
I hadn't planned on reading Midnight's Children again, but with all of the Best of the Booker publicity and now that brouhaha on the decision thread... I'm in. But I won't start until mid-August. Ditto Bleak House.
Those of you who haven't yet read MC are in for a treat, I promise! Stick ...
My plan is to read both Bleak House and Midnight's Children if I can manage it. I'm starting with Bleak House since I have it to hand. I have to order the Rushdie.
In case you haven't been tracking the drama on the book decision thread:
The top winners are Midnight's Children -- Salman Rushdie and Bleak House -- Charles Dickens. There's so much interest in both that there will be two book groups going this time.
We had some "issues" with ...
I'm in, too.
I'll start reading Midnight's Children in a few days. I hope to participate in the group discussion here, and I am going to read only this book as a group read this time.
Will the book be divided into different topics?
My Norwegian edition ('Midnattsbarn') has three books. I ...
So, I've lost track of who's reading what. How about everyone post here if you're going to read Midnight's Children so we know who's reading it?
For the record, "I'm in!"
#198 geneg, couldn't have put it better myself!
kjellika, also confused. Obviously Midnight's Children but are we going for Bleak House as well? Both are wobbling excitedly on my bookshelf squealing 'Pick Me! Pick Me!' ......
Confused !! ;--O
Anybody who knows what book's the next group read?
Will it be Midnight's Children (#199) or will there be two books going on simultaneously (in different topics)?
Just wondering.
Last week I purchased Salman Rushdie's 25th Anniversary edition of Midnight's Children published in 2006. He wrote a new introduction to the book. So.. for those who don't have the book yet or have a older version, I found a copy of the new intro on the web.
***The birth pangs of Midnight ...
In today's mail:
Young Entry by Molly Keane
Nelson's Daughter by Miranda Heard
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
The Moorland Cottage by Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Love the hat idea........I like the idea of straw hat with ribbons on it.....good to wear while reading!
I loved Midnight's Children . Enjoy!
It should be something distinguished, like a top hat!
*wanders off to put Midnight's Children on reserve at the library*
... counted
Bleak House - 17 pins -- 30%
The Count of Monte Cristo - 14 pins -- 25%
Midnight's Children - 25 -- 45%
Midnight's Children by Rushdie the WINNER!
Bleak House by Dickens the Runner-up.
Count done to the best of my ability at zooming and panning!
... - Literature (Classic) and Group Reads - Literature (Modern) . That way both The Count of Monte Cristo and Midnight's Children can be enjoyed by those who would like a group read. (For the fans of Bleak House perhaps that can be pre-chosen as the next book in the Classics ...
#158 Or we could start a splinter group for those who want to read Midnight's Children .
... invading -- who brought up war stories -- no story here, its real!
Am I seeing the results correctly on my computer?
Midnight's Children is falling way behind..... I already bought the book; I jumped the gun.
From my husband, for my birthday:
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
From Commonwealth Books in Boston:
The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
From other sources:
Tropical Fish: Tales from E ...
... are green (Rushdie).
I see from the poll that it seems to be a very close race between The Count of Monte Cristo and Midnight's Children .
Remember Madame Bovary and The Age of Innocence?
EXCITING !! /:-O
About A Boy by Nick Hornby
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Small World by David Lodge
A Kid for Two Farthings by Wolf Mankowitz
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
... 2-3 days, and now I've read all the interesting messages that appeared here in the meantime.
I had decided to vote for Midnight's Children and after reading #126 I became even more sure about where my vote was to be put.
Cariola, a great campaign!!
And if Midnight's Children doesn't ...
... which may indeed be classics of the future or to particularly read from new and varied ethnic backgrounds, then Midnight's Children is an excellent candidate in the first respect. As for the other, he is Indian, of course, but educated at Cambridge and lives in Britian and the U.S. A ...
... House, so I will be reading it in conjunction with that, but the other two are wonderful choices as well. I have read Midnight"s Children long ago and it is worth another read. But somehow The Count of Monte Cristo slipped past me and so I voted for it.
Thanks for setting this up!
... for my choice because in the end everyone can make their own choice to read or not read anyway!
But I will say that Midnight's Children was published only 13 years ago. It may well be the seminal novel of the century and Rushdie's literary prowess wil continue to grow to legendary ...
129> I have sat out the last TWO group reads for the same reason, and that is why I want to read Midnight's Children .
You should vote for Midnight's Children because:
1) It was just named the Booker of the Bookers (see #99 above).
2) It isn't yet another novel set in mid-19th to early 20th century Europe or America.
3) It isn't another book about society and manners.
4) We should all know more about India's ...
Looks like a run-off between Bleak House, The Count of Monte Cristo, and Midnight's Children .
Will someone more technologically astute set up the poll?
#99 Cariola
Thanks for your announcement.
I'll change my vote from Don Quixote to Midnight's Children , as it is my number 2 choice (cf. #35).
... some censorship. If this book is chosen some of you literature experts are going to have to do some research!
I have both Midnight's Children & Bleak House ready to read!
... if the current poll doesn't have a clear winner (5 votes (#94 teelgee: do you mean 5%?) or more).
I've got copies of Midnight's Children (in Norwegian), Bleak House (in English) and The Count of Monte Cristo (in Norwegian) and I haven't read any of them yet. I imagine it'll be a great ...
Cariola, Midnight's Children is just BRILL! (Very complex literary term!) I'd be happy to re-read it soon so even if it doesn't make it this time .... keep your fingers crossed!
... of the Booker
10 July 2008
Salman Rushdie was today (10 July) named winner of the Best of the Booker award for Midnight's Children .
Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize in 1981. It was then chosen as the Booker of Bookers in 1993 - the only other time a celebratory prize has ...
and the winner is...
MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN BY SALMAN RUSHDIE
... Quixote, but I will surely participate in the group read this time whatever book is chosen.
I'm in the mood for reading Midnight's Children and/or Bleak House as well.
#81 I'm with you on moving to another country. Midnight's Children , The Tin Drum, and Independent People also take us to other regions--and other eras.
I vote to read Midnight's Children I have never read any Rushdie and also have wanted to for some time (like geneg). I do have Don Quixote on my night stand but I'm in the mood for something more modern. After Middlemarch and Age of Innocence, I read Jane Eyre a wonderful fun novel, another ...
One and one only? Torture. I'm going with Midnight's Children
... use that mechanism again.
Cariola, I've read Don Quixote. You don't see me stumping for it!
I would prefer to read Midnight's Children simply because I have never read any Rushdie and have wanted to for some time.
Put me down for Midnight's Children .
I vote for Midnight's Children .
(Do y'all really know what you're in for with Don Quixote?)
... by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
...
... or more mentions. Please let me know if there is an error:
Don Quixote - 11
Bleak House - 8
Madame Bovary - 7
Midnight's Children - 5
The Tin Drum - 5
Magic Mountain - 4
Vanity Fair - 4
The Count of Monte Cristo - 4
Independent People - 4
Les Miserables - 3
The I ...
... probably be sitting this one out - however I am in the middle of Don Quixote and Vanity Fair and have wanted to read Midnight's Children for a few years now so those are my 3 suggestions for this round. (I'm also in the middle of The Tale of Genji but I really think that would be a bit ...
Cariola, no criticized taken. Midnight's Children is another on my TBR list, and I would be very happy if it is chosen too.
rosemaria, I believe there are also four votes above for Midnight's Children (29, 32, 35, 39). Not trying to criticize--it's just that the three above don't interest me much, and I'd like to see something else have a chance, if others are interested, too.
I "vote" for Midnight's Children or The Woman Warrior. Both books I've heard a lot about but could probably use some support to actually read.
I hope to have a group read on one of the following novels:
1. Don Quixote
2. Midnight's children
3. first part of The Cairo Trilogy
4. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
5. The tin drum
I'd also be interested in reading Midnight's Children . I found a nice edition at a reasonable price last week, thinking I'd throw it on the TBR foothills, but I couldn't stop myself from reading Rushdie's introduction, and now I've packed it in my bag for my upcoming camping trip . . . I can't ...
So . . . are we "voting" here already or still taking suggestions?
Of the posted books, I would be happy with:
Midnight's Children
The Tin Drum--it has been years since I read it.
The Cairo Trilogy (or one part of)
... I've added a few comments; they are pretty vague as I son't want to give away the plots (and several I haven't read).
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. This is one of those "great books" that I'm told everyone should read, and it's likely to be the winner of the Best of the Booker ...
... by Carl Sagan.
3. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
4. Lord of the Flies by William Golding.
5. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.
6. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
7. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.
8. Kristin Lavransdatte ...
... Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Holmes learned baritsu
in muddy tea-house gardens
in his Meiji youth.
74. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
The family snapshots,
like God's own puzzle pieces,
fit and fall apart.
75. Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
A world ...
Found a deal on Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.
>65: bookishbunny, I just read Midnight's Children a couple weeks ago. What do you think of it so far?
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.
Of the six, I've only read Midnight's Children and Disgrace, and I'd have to choose the former. I have The Siege of Krishnapur, but haven't read it yet. I'd like to hear more from supporters of any of the other three books.
Laura, congrats on finishing Midnight's Children , quite a challenging novel, imho. I did like it a lot, but I felt the characters were held at a distance -- Rushdie seems to laugh at them but never show them compassion -- and so I couldn't feel emotionally immersed in the book. I think it was a ...
...
# JM Coetzee Disgrace
# J G Farrell The Siege of Krishnapur
# Nadine Gordimer The Conservationist
# Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children
... Isabel Allende: heard a review on NPR when it was first released, although it took me months to get around to reading it
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie: reading Booker winners
We wish to Inform you that Tomorrow we will be Killed with our Families by Philip Gourevitch: heard quite ...
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Nefertiti - Michelle Moran
Two more to cross off my wishlist and finally read! Yay!
... her so refreshing - full of vivacity and puzzles. I wanted to read at least one of her novels before I try out Rushdie's Midnight's Children .
... target="_blank"> Midnight's Children - review .
From my Review : I did not expect to like this book as much as I did. At ...
I'm reading Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. I was a bit apprehensive, not having read Rushdie before. And I'd seen some comments recently (Grammath?) that led me to believe it might be a difficult read. And it is, in a way. It's not my usual cup of tea and it took me longer than most ...
It's a new month!
And I'm in India, reading Midnight's Children , moving around from early 20th century to 1947 independence to sometime later ...
I started Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children last night. Not too far in yet (and it's a long book, 550 pages), but I'm intrigued so far.
... adore The Colony of Unrequited Dreams. It's always my second book recommendation to unsuspecting victims, right after Midnight's Children .
... Here are my votes, in order, from among those mentioned so far:
1. The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
2. Midnight's Children by Salmon Rushdie
3. The Red and the Black by Stendahl
4. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
5. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth ...
Of those mentioned above, I would go for:
Midnight's Children
Wives and Daughters
Great Expectations
Trying to think of something a little different (i.e., not Russian or English), I came up with:
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
An Amer ...
#18 and #23
I've got Midnight's children (Norwegian edition) on my bookshelves, but I haven't read it yet (or any other of Rushdie's novels). And I just ordered Enchantress of Florence (it is not translated into Norwegian yet), and I would like to read it with this group.
I am a little ...
#4 Midnight's Children definately dragged on towards the end!
Well into A Suitable Boy now; it is moving along alot faster than I thought and is quite enjoyable.
Hoping to be done and dusted with Midnight's Children shortly.
Other books in progress:
Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard
The Love Secrets of Don Juan by Tim Lott
Dr Mukti and other Tales of Woe by Will Self
The Word of Pod by Dave Podmore
... an enormous debt. This is not the startlingly original novel everyone told me it was before I started it.
As a story, Midnight's Children is a clever idea, but I very much dislike Saleem Sinai, who just seems to me absurdly arrogant, self centred and pompous, and the way he constantly ...
Well, I'll go out on limb and 'fess up that I loved Midnight's Children . I am quite enamored with Rushdie's writing style and use of language, as well as his sense of humor. The tales he weaves are fantastic and seem to capture so much of the irony in our world. Midnight's Children is one of ...
#331 Nice to know I'm not the only one who doesn't think Midnight's Children is the greatest thing since the literary equivalent of sliced bread.
I'm about 100 pages from the end now and have stalled. I've picked up anther 1001 book in its place, Empire of the Sun. I'm a fan of Ballard ...
#329 A little bit off track, but Midnight's Children is apparently hot favourite to be voted Best of the Bookers for the 40th anniversary of the award. It also won Best Booker in the award's first quarter of a century. Whilst I can appreciate Rushdie's writing, his magical realism story of Indi ...
Still reading
Midnight's Children
Dr Mukti and other Tales of Woe
The Word of Pod
Boiling A Frog
and just started
Empire of the Sun
I started Empire of the Sun yesterday. Still ploughing on with Midnight's Children ; the finishing line is in sight.
... anthony horowitz
the falcon's malteser; anthony horowitz
south by south east; anthony horowitz
the midnight library ; nick shadow
Same as last week:
Novel: Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie - now about 2/3 of the way through
Audiobook: Boiling A Frog by Christopher Brookmyre
Short stories: Dr Mukti and other tales of woe by Will Self
Loo: The Word of Pod by Dave Podmore
... Impressionist
6. G V Desani: All About H Hatterr
7. Vikram Seth: The Golden Gate
8. Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children
9. R K Narayan: Swami and Friends
10. Mulk Raj Anand: Coolie
11. Kamala Markandaya: Nectar in a Sieve
12. Anita Desai: Baumg ...
That's Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
Onward with:
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
The Word of Pod by Dave Podmore
Dr Mukti and other Tales of Woe by Will Self
I know I said I was going to read Midnight's Children ...but I borrowed some books from the library so they ended up taking precedence. So, I'm now reading Last Orders by Graham Swift, but I hope to get back to Rushdie soon.
Still plodding on with Midnight's Children . I keep being told it will get better, but I've got to page 180 and I'm not seeing many signs yet of why it is as highly rated as it is.
To herald the start of the cricket season, I'm reading one of my LT singletons, the collected columns of doughty ...
... since its inception 40 years ago.
This was last done in 1993, on the prize's 25th anniversary, when the prize went to Midnight's Children . This is my current read. I'm slightly more than a third of the way through it and the politest thing I can say about it is it is not my cup of tea.
...
... husband "This is a really good book, but it's too long. I'd prefer any 200 pages--don't care which ones, but just 200."
Midnight's Children is at the top of my Rushdie to-read list, and his new one looks promising (and not that long!), and one day I hope to read The Satanic Verses. But the ...
... The sheer blinding tragedy of the book, and the characters' numbness to the tragedy is breathtakingly sad.
As for Midnight's Children , it will be my first Rushdie. I've read the first 20 pages or so and I'm enjoying the writing so far but the story hasn't gripped me yet, but then I ...
Haroun would be my fave too (goes to put it in the TBr-R stack), with Midnight's Children right up there... it has been many years since I've read any Rushdie, I don't think I ever finished Ground Beneath Her Feet...
... it, especially to anyone with an interest in China, Japan or WWII.
As for what's next, I'm not really sure. I might read Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. I borrowed it from a friend months ago and I really should return it to her. Plus...it's on both my lists!
Karenwardill, I actually liked both of those books about India, but Rushdie's work (Midnight's Children ) seemed cool and distant and Mistry's Fine Balance (admittedly somewhat less complex) was full of heart. I actually wanted to compare Possession (a very complex book with heart) to ...
... that ability to humanize." I love clever and complex, but the great writer is one who can also humanize. I am thinking of Midnight's Children vs A Fine Balance. Both brilliant, but only one made me cry.
... Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, which has taken me a couple of months, and have moved onto Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children as my selection from 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, which looks like its going to be another slog.
I am reading and enjoying Villette.
#38, 39 -- I struggled a bit with Midnight's Children - mostly because I was unfamiliar with Indian, Pakistani history -- a little Wikipedia reading was necessary. Overall, though I liked it -- although I regret to tell you, I liked the begininning and ...
>38 I remember it taking me rather a while to really get into Midnight's Children , but once I did, I couldn't put it down. It mainly has to do with the fantastic premise of the story, but once you get into a groove with it, it's the surrounding history that really drives the story.
It ended ...
>38: Grammath oh dear, I am planning to read Midnight's Children soon, b/c it's part of my quest to read all Booker Prize winners. And it was "the Booker of Bookers" on the 25th anniversary of the prize. So I have high expectations ... you'll have to let me know your final thoughts ...
I've just started Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children . I'm about 50 pages in and wondering what all the fuss is about. It's been a bit of a slog to get this far.
I've just started Midnight's Children , number 137 off the list for me.
I'm only 50 pages in so far and frankly it's been a bit of a slog. I'm wondering what all the fuss is about.
I've just started Midnight's Children , number 137 off the list for me.
Only 50 pages in so far and it has frankly been a bit of a slog. I'm wondering what all the fuss is about.
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
... Antonia 2 lists
25) Stepphenwolf 2 lists
26) The things they carried 2 lists
27) The magic mountain 2 lists
28) Midnight's children 2 lists
29) In search of lost time 2 lists
30) Franny and Zooey 2 lists
31) The god of small things 2 lists
Sorry, double post
... liasions
5) Einstein's dreams
6) Family matters
7) Gilead
8) The joyluck club
9) The life of insects
10) Midnight's children
11) Life of Pi
12) The poisonwood bible
13) The sea
14) Sophies choice
15) The things they carried
16) Vanishing Point
17) War and Pe ...
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
... / Stories (Heinrich von Kleist)
Wo warst du, Adam? (Böll)
Howards End (Forster)
My father and myself (Ackerley)
Midnight's children (Rushdie)
Valmouth and other novels (Firbank)
Gulliver's travels (Swift)
The good soldier (Ford)
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Austerlitz ( ...
... I have read have comic passages or are very funny. For example, Confederacy of Dunces, Middlesex, Kavalier and Clay, Midnight's Children , Amsterdam. They may not be written solely as comedies, but humour is used throughout to bring out the meaning.
The Coen brothers keep winning ...
Well, I'm reading Midnight's Children for a paper I'm writing, and I just got There's a (slight) chance I might be going to hell, and I'll probably start it by the end of the day. Yay! Yay for spring break, and suddenly having some time to read.
Reading Midnight's Children (this particular copy weighs in at 562 pages, although the copy I actually own is over eight hundred), waiting with bated breath to read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, and I decided months ago that the first book I read after graduation will be Don Quixote! Exci ...
... own manuscript to read through, my modern British lit midterm to prepare for, including writing an outline for my paper on Midnight's Children , which I'm only about thirty pages into. So I'll be reading this weekend. Maybe if there's time, I'll actually get some writing done on said ...
... on another Eco novel about a man who's memory goes but he can still remember all the books he'd read.
I've given up on Midnight's children too and the unbearable lightness of being I always mean to go back to these, but never do.
... else to hand).
Years ago I gave up on Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Scenes from provincial life and Midnight's Children . I am not going back to those, no matter how bad winter gets.
There's a reason Midnight's Children has been called the Booker of Bookers.
>13 - your reasoning behind Midnight's Children not winning seems to be based on the fact that you and your friends didn't like it: that's not much of a reasoned argument. Against that, it could be pointed out that it was the only Booker winner to be listed on BBC's Big Read (2003) to find the UK' ...
Finished Midnight's Children by Salmon Rushdie finally! It was a bit tough to get through, long/drawn out, but once I got into it i was invested in the main character so I wanted to finish it. I probably wouldn't read it again, but it wasn't bad by all means.
Inbetween reading this book, i ...
Well.............of those I've read I would have to vote for either Midnight's Children , The Inheritance of Loss, or The God of Small Things.
... Sea
1979: Penelope Fitzgerald - Offshore
1980: William Golding - Rites of Passage
1981: Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
1982: Thomas Keneally - Schindler's Ark
1983: J.M. Coetzee - Life and Times of Michael K
1984: Anita Brookner - Hotel Du Lac
1985: ...
I loved Midnight's Children as well. citizenkelly, you are allowed to feel very grumpy, and even throw things, but please do not kill yourself over Yann Martel.
>108 - I think it will be Midnight's Children : they choose a Best of the Booker for the 30th(?) and it won. It could depend on whether people vote on what they think should win, or what they want to win.
I would have liked an more informal comp as well - what do readers think ...
... The Princess Diaries. It was pretty good for a YA novel. I havn't seen the movie yet so I can't compare it.
Reading Midnight's Children now. Should be interesting!
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie ~ finding it wild fun. The narrator, Saleem, is one of the 1001 midnight's children who were born within the first hour of India's independence and endowed with a magical talent. His power is telepathy and he uses it to hold meetings in his head with the ...
Wonderlake-my TBR pile is almost as big as my read pile!!
Still working on Midnight's Children but I just finished The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri that's #8.
Wow! Only 42 more to go. Hee hee
... Light and The Calcutta Chromosome. It does not find River Of Gods which also has India in the subjects nor did it find Midnight's Children or Flashman and the Angel of the Lord.
BTW - I did do a reindex before checking this.
Also how do I search for "India > Fiction"? Yes I know you ...
... think it's quite what you're looking for. The only one of Rushdie's books that I can think of that might fit your needs is Midnight's Children , and even that isn't really about Muslim women- it just features a few. To be honest, even though Rushdie is famous for the Muslim-related content of T ...
Hi! I just joined this group because I really want to get back into reading Art History/Essay books. I am currently reading Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. I found the 1001 books you must read before you die discussion and book thru LT and I'm slowly checking off books I have read or ...
6) Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie I have moved onto taking suggestions from the 1001 books you must read before you die. This was a hard book to get into, but it has gotten very good and now I'm hooked!
I have The Handmaid's Tale sitting on my table waiting for me to finish Midnight's Children . I saw the movie years and years ago and just recently saw the book was part of the 1001 books to read before you die list. So, I thought I would read it and figure out why I must read it before I die.
2007, I picked 150 books to read. However, the last Harry Potter book completely ruined things for me and I had to desire to pick up another book until recently. I got around 50, if I was lucky (see http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=6899).
So, I'm not going to bite off more than I ...
Tane, I'd recommend Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie for you. They have super-powers.
edited to fix a bad touchstone.
... Aegypt
5. The Club Dumas
6. The Stolen Child
7. Shutter Island
8. City of Saints and Madmen
Group Reads
1. Midnight's Children
2. Age of Innocence
3. Bleak House
4. Devlin's Luck
5. Spirit Gate
6. Lies of Locke Lamora
7 ...
I'm starting Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie and I just bought Through the Looking Glass. Of course I've seen the movie, but I would like to know why this book was banned at one time.
... (completed July 2008), 543 p
7. The Other Boleyn Girl, by Philippa Gregory (completed August 2008), 661 p.
8. Midnight's Children , by Salman Rushdie (completed August 2008), 533 p.
... Around the World Challenge Map” - these are some ideas
(1) Broken Verses – Kamila Shamsie (F) (Pakistan)
(2) Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie (F) (India)
(3) Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress – Dai Sijie (F) (China) - 03/22/2008
(4) House of the Spirit ...
This space used to contain the full category list, but there got to be too many touchstones, so I've broken them out into individual entries below and decided to delete this one.
... two more books this year, but I don't think anything will topple my list.
1) Vanishing Point by David Markson
2) Midnight's children by Salman Rushdi
3) Life of insects by Victor Pelevin
4) I know this much is true by Wally Lamb
5) A tie (yes its a cop out) between ...
Novel: Midnights Children by Salman Rushdie
Short stories: Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Non-Fiction: Seven Pillars of Wisdom by TE Lawrence, The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski, Pity the Nation by Robert Fisk, Discipline and Punish by Michel Fo ...
I did mine --
From Here to Eternity - >800 pgs but quite good actually
Midnight's Children -- good
White Noise -- just so - so
Disgrace - not sure why I put this in; it was actually more of a novella; but quite good
and . . . drumroll please . . .
Ulysses -- painful painful ...
... long. I kept saying to my husband that I'd gladly read any 200 pages of it, but 575 was way too much.
I haven't read Midnight's Children yet, and I plan to one day. And I really like Rushdie's essays. But I'm not going to go out of my way to read his other work.
... - all of her stuff, really, but Atlas Shrugged especially
Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
Steven Erikson - his Malazan series
Joseph Heller - Catch-22
Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities (I know a lot of people think ...
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
... The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann
2. Anna Karenina
3. Don Quixote
4. Culture and Imperialism
5. Albion
6. Midnight's Children
7. A Suitable Boy
8. Embracing Defeat
9. Capricornia
10.Seven Pillars of Wisdom
11. The Wretched of the Earth
12. The Castle Franz Ka ...
... between his home life and the country's political life are kind of clumsy and forced, though. Reading all the chat about Midnight's Children makes me want to read the book even more than I did previously.
>10, I agree about the chapters! Knowing that I have 50+ pages to read before any ...
I think that the analogy with Midnight's Children is very apt, and perhaps illuminates why I felt that the book didn't work. In Rushdie's book, he is very explicit about the interactions between India and Saleem which are:
1)Saleem affected by Indian history
2)Saleem as a causal factor in Indian ...
... my position about a quarter of the way through) that this book is meant to be about Uganda (in the same way that, say, Midnight's Children is about India), and that's why the texture is so dense, with a lot of other stories packed in to the text - eg, the tales of Uncle Kawayida (p. 8), or ...
... in a world of second chances).
Edit - I wrote that I was sure I did not entirely understand the ending of this and of Midnight's Children above. I've realised that what I am struggling to say is that the way they both end is in some ways not entirely explainable (let alone briefly), its ...
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Daughter of Time
Midnights
Nineteen Minutes
Good Time Girls
The Time in Between
... arker
If Today Be Sweet - Thrity Umrigar
Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning - Alice Walker
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Bobo's in Paradise by David Brooks
Death in the Haymarket by James Green
... and The Golden Bowl -- both major time sucks (Wake because it is incomprehensible, Bowl because it is interminable). Midnight's Children also took a long time, as The Adventures of Augie March is taking now, because they are both enjoyably dense. So I will probably only hit 80 by the ...
... of the first half of the book. Maybe I misread it but his picture of the working class seemed quite patronising to me.
4. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
This was my second attempt at this book having stalled 2/3 of the way through once before. Maybe that earlier read helped me keep ...
I think Salman Rushdie is brilliant. I agree that Midnight's Children is a good place to start, just because it's an earlier book. However, one of my favourite Rushdie books is a very accessible and diverse book of short stories called East and West. My favourite stories in the ...
Midnight's Children is probably a good starting point: if you don't like that, you're unlikely to like his later books.
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
The Daughters of Captain Cooke by Linda Spalding
The Pianoman's Daughter by Timothy Findley
The Paper Wife by Linda Spalding
... Only mine.
Well, I'm sure you can see where this is going. The other day he 'targeted' the book I was currently reading Lullabyes for Little Children by Heather O'Neill and had left on an end table beside a couch. He also pulled all of my Salman Rushdie off the shelf, and I don't ...
On London Fields there was a Tin Drum which Midnight's Children kept playing. I got out my Scoop and threw it Where Angels Fear to Tread.
In no order
Midnight's children - 1
Austerlitz 2
The English Patient 2
Life of Insects 2
Cancer Ward 1
Trainspotting was booted off from quarter one -
... these! #3 kicks ass rofl.
a zen romance by deborah boliver boehm
the art of sexual magic by margo anand
midnight's children by salman rushdie
education by choice by john coons
the graduate by charles webb
and another...
american slavery, 1619-1877 by ...
the birth of tragedy by nietzsche
midnight's children by salman rushdie
children and politics by fred greenstein
the years of rice and salt by kim stanley robinson
the old man and the sea by ernest hemingway
midnight tides by steven erikson
a flash of lightning in the dark of night by the dalai lama
midnight's children by salman rushdie
night by elie wiesel
everyday tao by deng ming-dao
... by Salman Rushdie is the most obvious book fitting that description. It's a satirical novel that does for Pakistan what Midnight's Children did for India - a big sweep through Pakistan's history, pulling no punches. It was written 25 years ago, so it doesn't take you right up to the present ...
I just finished Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. It is the first of his books that I've read, and I can only say that I regret not reading it 25 years ago!
Now I am on to The Golden Bowl by Henry James. I am the first to complain about the over-abundance of James on this list. ...
i like this one, but wow it's tough :|
Author:
forty signs of rain by kim stanley robinson
midnight's children by salman rushdie
black snow: a theatrical novel by mikhail bulgakov
the first men in the moon by h.g. wells
falconer by john cheever
Subject (ok ...
Midnight's Children , White Teeth
... myself buy more things that will just have to be dragged home in my already over-stuffed suitcases.
After discarding Midnight's Children because I just wasn't in the mood for Serious Works of Literature, I moved onto Terra Incognita, Sara Wheeler's journey through Antarctica. I ...
I swore I was going to get Midnight's Children out of my TBR pile, but one look at all those pages filled with teeny tiny print... I decided that in the summer, it's okay if you'd rather read something easier, so I started Terra Incognita by Sara Wheeler instead. I haven't gotten to the ...
#126 I loved Midnight's children - adored the writing and the story :)
... a single sentence that started with "I felt," but I still felt absolutely everything along with her.
I'm going to start Midnight's Children tonight over dinner.
... his education was more traditionally 'English' than the majority of lower class English people. His breakthrough novel, Midnight's Children , appropriates magic realism from Latin America, which is itself steeped in a history of colonialism. So are his novels are post-colonialist literature, ...
My favourite would be Perfume by Patrick Suskind, then Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. There are so many though, that are high up there, in different genres.
... needs modernism all over again.
Rushdie began writing to his own formula after the brilliant achievements of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses. Eco, too, after The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum (see the discussion thread on the new Eco group). I was ...
... I think it's next.
After that, with no planned order, I have:
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found - nonfiction
Midnight's Children - been languishing on my shelf forever
Scribbling the Cat - Alexandra Fuller travels through Africa with a scary ex-soldier
Terra Incognita - ...
... smarter than you, but go ahead and try to read it anyway." I liked DeLillo's White Noise, and really liked Rushdie's Midnight's Children . But disliked Franzen'sThe Corrections and Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay. I haven't read David Foster Wallace or Pynchon ...
... (kite runner) by Khaled Hosseini
5. paddy clarke by roddy doyle
6. schnee (snow) by orhan pamuk
7. midnight's children by salman rushdie
8. bildnis eines unsichtbaren by hans pleschinski
9. the blind assassin by margaret atwood
10. my life as a fake ...
I have three which I loved
1) Midnight's children by Salman Rushdie
2) Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
3) Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
... things, moon tiger (for some reason not that many copies on LT...) and oscar and lucinda... right now i'm reading midnight's children , am halfway through, and it probably is the best read i ever had...
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I finished Midnight's children and I can say that for the first time in my life I was really really jealous of an author writing - the prose - the imagery- the story - it was jsut wonderful and I sped throught it - regretfully finishing the last page. It was much ...
... interesting to see their choices = as well as to get glimpses into the books themselves
so here is a little ditty from Midnight's children by Salman Rushdie
"Please believe me that I am falling apart. I am not speaking metaphorically; nor is this the opening gambit of some ...
Keren --
I finished Midnight's Children recently - it is great in a kind of crazy way; definately have to like magical realism and I had to keep running to Wikipedia to get some sort of context for what was going on.
Be curious to see what you think.
... much I hate this novel. I literally feel sick at the thought of picking it up. I haven't had this strong an aversion since Midnight's Children . I will go against one of my sacred principles - not skipping to the end before I've read it properly.
In this case, I'd rather watch The Perils of P ...
... How to be lost - a good book - quick read - writing could have been better but the story was good
I am now reading Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie - will report back when done :)
... it as part of the post-colonial lit. course of my English degree, and compared to (relatively) easy pleasures of books like Midnight's Children , it was a real struggle.
Perhaps it was just the very dense style, and slow pace.
But I'd really like to give it another bash - I suspect it's one ...
... courses for literature ones.
I try and confine myself to alot of classics or at least modern classics. I just finished Midnight's Children which I really liked, a bit of difficuty following though. I haven't read any James Joyce yet -- guess I'll have to tackle Ulysses at some point. I
I ...
I finished Midnight's Children -- quite good, but I definately had to refer to Wikkpedia alot for details of Indian history in order to understand.
I am on to Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe -- seems a quick read, but a very sad, gruesome scene already.
... that remain. I am thinking specifically of books like A House for Mr Biswas, The Return of the Water Spirit or even Midnight's Children . Although 'colonial' literature is about the relationship betwen occupier and occupied, 'post-colonial' seeme to me to be more about the relationship ...
Hi jhowell, and no, I've never read A Fine Balance, but I did read Midnight's Children some years ago and liked it quite a bit, good luck with it too.
... --
I have been thinking about reading Sacred Games only because I loved,loved A Fine Balance and am really liking Midnight's Children . Did you read either of those? Did you like them?
This is cool!
Most popular is Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal Mine's in Spanish--is yours? (10, 162)
10% is Midnight's Children (1402)
100th is Don't Think of an Elephant (263)
50% is Rosshalde (98)
Last is Fundamentals of Kayak Navigation; most of my unshared are kayaking ...
I am still reading Midnight's Children by Rushdie which I started New tear's Eve (big party girl that I am) -- I can't do this two books at once thing that some of you seem to do.
lizzier -- felt the same way about White Teeth -- not in hurry, but haven't ruled out On Beauty . . she is so ...
still reading Midnight's Children . . interesting, like an Indian One Hundred Years of Solitude Need a map, and a history lesson of India though.
So dchaikin -- honestly, I would go with the Border Trilogy first, in toto longer, but kinder and gentler -- at least try something "light" like A ...
... fan. As we all know there is a fine line between pleasure and pain; between fascination and revulsion.
I just started Midnight's Children by Rushdie last night. so far, so good.
I have From Here to Eternity by James Jones; White Noise by DeLillo; Midnight's Children by Rushdie; and Disgrace by Coatzee on my bookshelf for 2007. I also promised myself I would give Ulysses a go too.
dchaikin -- The border trilogy is difficult but worth it. SamHouston keep Them ...
For Bellow I would try either Herzog or Henderson the Rain King.
Midnight's Children is the Rushdie to read - some of the others are hit and, increasingly, miss.
A House for Mr Biswas is a good place to start with Naipaul.
The Good Soldier is a great novel by Ford.
My favourite Saul Bellow is The Adventures of Augie March and favourite Salman Rushdie is Midnight's Children .
amandameale,
If you want to stay in the Sundarbans, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children takes a large detour there at the end. It is also a superb book.
I am now in war-torn Sarajevo with Nenad Velickovic's 'Lodgers'.
... into a new environment. I would argue that his work is more satisfying than Rushdie's, the more Rushdie writes, the more Midnight's Children looks like the odd book out.
His two best novels are probably The Black Book and My Name Is Red.
The leading Orientalist (and novelist) Robert ...
... therefore being a good introduction to the style.
Re - magic realism. Not sure that Rushdie surpassed Marquez. Midnight's Children is a great book, but is it better than One Hundred Years of Solitude. Rushdie's other books by comparison don't approach his masterpiece, while Marquez ...
Oh boy, this is the thread for me. From Pilgrim's Progress through to Midnight's Children I have had to read books at school, for my English degree and, later, teaching career, that have bored me rigid or that I loathed so much I was (almost) tempted to give them away. Top of my list of hated ...
... seems to be subjective enough for you to decide for yourself whether or not a book fits into it. For example, I think that Midnight's Children can fit into the category of Slipstream. It makes me feel weird, it rewrites history, and it is intensely surreal at times. Some do not agree with me on ...
... slipstream is also a bit narrower than some definitions of it. For example, I don't consider works of magic realism (e.g. Midnight's Children ) to be slipstream even though they appear on Sterling's list.
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