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Title: This guy's supposed to be a good writer?
Review: I found the characters completely devoid of life, and I've been subjected to Rushdie's endless seemingly profound hot air. He seems to have wrote most of this from his stream of consciousness, and I can recal nothing interesting had had to say. I stuck with him because I was shocked that this exalted author could so disappoint, but he was as bad at the end as in the middle. I've calibrated myself on "highbrow" stuff, and his ain't.
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