Hamas' Required Reading: The Satanic Verses
 

I'm currently 1/5 of the way through. Very dense, but rich. I'll keep you all and believer updated with progress.

Salman Rushdie has a pretty frakkin hot wife, I'll give him that.

Didn't some hardcore Islamics call for a death sentence and bounty on Salman Rushide for writing that?

What ever came of it? Did the UK and Iran come to an agreement?

Or did I dream all of this?

The Ayatollah issued a fatwa against Rushdie, urging muslims to kill him due to the heresy of the book.

It's always been my dream to be excommunicated or have a fatwa issued against me :D

Fiction on the lines of DaVinci code or what?

In terms of literary complexity, The DaVinci Code is a Dr. Seuss book by comparison.

It's very rich, highly referential....it has a lot of allegory and post-modern language play. You won't get all of it, it's pretty much impossible to get all of it unless you can tap directly into the author's brain, but the overall narrative is excellent thus far.

When you say referential, is it filled with footnotes and the like? I find it distracting trying to read those type of works. It is like reading doctoral thesis for fun.

No, not footnotes. Referential as in several allusions to politics, pop culture, literature, music, etc.

Thanks I may give it a try when I finish the books I already have backlogged,

Another good one is Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

I used to have a copy, but never got around to reading it. From what I've heard, it is an astounding piece of literature. I believe he also wrote a follow up to it, if I'm not mistaken.

They made a big deal about this when I was a kid

and the follow up to it (anyway this was the joke)


was : Buddha you fat ****

ROFL

For those interested in trying out Rushdie, I recommend Midnight's Children. Probably more accessible and, arguably, better than Satanic Verses.

BTW, Hamas... I started Pynchon's newest two days ago. Dense slogging so far, but it's more readable than M&D.