The Satanic Verses

This book is the classic by the well known author, Salman Rushdie. Give yourself plenty of time and have plenty of patience if you want to tackle this book. You cant read it with distractions around you, you'll lose your train of thought quickly. This book is very wordy, filled with bright descriptions of fantasy, dreams, and myths of the East Indian culture. I have read that this book is reviled by some of the more militant Muslims, and it has been printed more than once that there is a death sentence upon him for what he has written in this book. There is more than one plot line in this book and it switches back and forth with little warning. The names, descriptions,myths,religious references, all are complex and woven together. This book will be a challenge for you, but you will undoubtedly be enriched by reading it.

Unfortunately, most people know this book from the scandal and fatwa it generated around the personage of its prolific and outspoken author Salman Rushdie rather than the book itself. The thing that enraged some Muslims (and the Ayatollah of Iran most of all) was Rushdie's hypothesis that Mohammed,......more

Satanic Verses: A Composition He had just finished his thirty-fourth reading of the play. The unsaid hate, the unseen events, the half-imagined wrongs; they tormented him. What could cause such evil to manifest, he just could not figure. He loved him too much to believe the simple explanation. And the......more

NOTE: I was literally in college when I read this book and wrote this review. I've been on this site for decades now, and you can see the date on a review when you read it, so maybe keep that in mind before leaving me a snarky comment. Eventually I will reread this and write a different (better) rev......more

From the archives: September 27 1988 The Satanic Verses, the controversial first draft of the Quran recently discovered after spending 1379 years in a safe deposit box, finally appeared yesterday to a mixed reception. "Wheeeeee! I'm so excited!!" said one fan who had spent all night lining up outside......more

What kind of idea are you? This question, scattered throughout the pages of this novel, is the intermediary between the author and his work. A waterloo of sorts, a windbreaker giving rise to the question of the material’s purpose. It gives us some sort of glimpse as to why he chose to name it “Satani......more