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Old 01-26-2020, 09:18 AM   #77
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I also read Foucault's Pendulum. Great first chapter, rest of the book was a slog, though an interesting idea. Not recommended.

Rushdie...massively overrated IMO.
It's been a long time, but I remember enjoying Foucault's Pendulum very much. Was bored out of my skull, still a few years earlier, by The Name of the Rose, but that could have been because I was just too young then.

Incidentally, Rushdie hated Foucault's Pendulum and wrote a scathing review.

Rushdie is a bit hit and miss, IMO. I really liked Midnight's Children, The Moor's Last Sigh, Shalimar the Clown and Fury. And his children's book, Haroun and the Sea of Stories. There was an audiobook of Rushdie himself reading it at the time, which was brilliant. (Only audiobook I've tried that I didn't fall asleep to.)
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