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Anonymous Mon Feb 13 21:24:33 2012 No.2403647 [Reply] [Original]

What's /lit/'s opinion on Salman Rushdie?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 13 21:26:34 2012 No.2403651 salmon is good for sandwiches. also: why are you reading shit by non-whites?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 13 21:30:33 2012 No.2403655 >>2403647 Only read Midnight's children, 'twas good.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 13 21:31:34 2012 No.2403657 Terrible..like Henry Miller, Norman Mailer and just about everyone else that was seen as edgy by the baby boomers.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 13 21:33:33 2012 No.2403660 >>2403657 Is there anything the baby boomers didn't ruin?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 13 21:35:33 2012 No.2403662 Never read him. Seems like kind of an attention whore; nobody cares about your Khomeini fatwa anymore.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 13 21:35:33 2012 No.2403663 >>2403660 No, Nothing. Gen Y has a lot of work to do but unfortunately we can't be arsed.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 13 21:36:33 2012 No.2403664 >>2403657 except that norman mailer is actually good.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 13 21:37:33 2012 No.2403666 >>2403664 Go back to bed, grandpa.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 13 21:39:33 2012 No.2403668 >>2403664 Prove it. Have you actually read anything he wrote? It's talentless, uninspired and just generally boring.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 13 21:46:33 2012 No.2403675 >>2403668 lol at "Prove it"

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 13 21:51:33 2012 No.2403682 >>2403668 i've read all of the authors you mentioned, and agree that rushdie and miller are overrated and skippable. norman mailer's "the naked and the dead" is, however, worth reading.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 13 22:09:33 2012 No.2403708 The best contemporary writer there is I think- sometimes he moves things a fraction too slowly.