the enchantress of florence by salman rushdie

Wonderful magical realism though and I love how he glosses in a sentence something as complex as the development of Urdu. Reading late at night I kept falling asleep and having to reread pages. The plot was pretty tightly woven and I should have applied myself to the book a little better. The language is rich and if you slide over a paragraph you really may miss something important. ' Can't believe that it took me this long to pick up a Rushdie book. This is better than the last one I read, (The Moor's Last Sigh) and made me love him even more! ' - Ryo, There was also some nice descriptions - but I diskiked the long back stories of fairly minor characters and the chauvinism - all the women had to be beautiful or mysterious - just boarding a bit GQ ' - Paula, ' I managed to get through this book but I didn't really enjoy it - the things I liked were the fairy tale qualities and imagining famous people in history - or their relations.

' Everything I've read so far by Rushdie has been fantastical and absorbing. I found the names long and confusing which made it difficult to follow at times. I would probably not finished it if I had read it. Absolutely forgettable and a massive disappointment. So much for being enchanted! I just didn't get into the story or his writing style. If he had family trees or other things in the book I may have kept up to date, but he kept losing me. I couldn't follow the story, didn't really keep up with the characters, I was lost in different time periods. ' This was the first book I've read of Salman Rushdie, and I'm sorry to say, it's likely to be my last. I also thought he tried to hard to make it sound like poetry which just made it a difficult read. I felt like it was all over the place and jumped from one plot and scene to another without much explanation. ' This was the first Salman Rushdie book I've read and although I've heard Midnight's Children was on of his best works, I may find it hard to pick up another one of his books. I listened to the audio book and the 'performance' could have been better ' - Susan, Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.

The enchantress of florence by salman rushdie