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Originally Posted by Ned
How about Salman Rushdie?
I waded through a few pages of Midnight's Children and all that came across was Rushdie shouting "Look at me, how clever I am" - I couldn't get past that to what he was actually on about.
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I got the same impression from Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum. I made it to the end, but while the first half was great the second half left me cold.
The Name of the Rose, on the other hand, was wonderful throughout.
/JB