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The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

8 reviews

needlebrook's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

The book only clicked for me about 200 pages in- which took me the first 28 days of July. the opening of the book is confusingly strange and I struggled to understand the scenes. 

But after the 28 days, I finished the whole book in 2 days. I enjoyed the three main plot lines unraveling with gibreel farishta at the center, eventually driving him insane. The stuff that occurs are batshit insane- and I understand how this might not be everyone's cup of coffee.  I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book after I really got into the groove. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Islamophobia

Moderate: Racism, Sexism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Sexism, Violence, and Police brutality

aduda06's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, and Xenophobia

impla77's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

i don’t really know what to rate this, very interesting and held my attention throughout but i didnt really know what was going on lool

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Police brutality

Moderate: Sexism and Vomit

kimschouwenaar's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

holy crap, this was wild — an absolute “roller coaster ride” of a book (thank you angela carter). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

steveatwaywords's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Grateful to have finally made the time to read this infamous work.

Like so much of Rushdie's writing, Satanic Verses moves so quickly and ambiguously between its symbols, motifs, and semi-dream states of magical realism, that one has barely an opportunity to take a breath, let alone pause to reflect upon all the connections made. 

Most of these connections are themselves left as more complex questions, of course. Anyone hoping to have a neat and tidy closure to any of the multiple storylines will be disappointed. Instead, we are left with questions of faith and believability, of immigrant identity, of the supernatural, of madness both personal and societal. We are not a clean or easy-to-solve people; our histories and complexes of meaning-making crowd together into mashes of chaos and regret. We are not angels or devils, entirely, but people making our choices and haphazardly meeting our consequences. 

The controversy roused by this book is obvious enough from its content: it is something the book itself addresses and anticipates. But at the same time, those who might condemn the work wholly or simply likely fail to see the larger mash-ups of human experience I just mentioned. 

Enter the water as so many for centuries have before you and will afterwards; how we emerge on the other side is entirely out choice.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Islamophobia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Colonisation, and Dysphoria

lanid's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Cancer, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicide, Torture, Excrement, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

hazelgirl21's review

challenging reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs and Racism

Minor: Suicide

megan_burgess's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Misogyny, Racism, and Sexual content