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Fury
Fury: A Novel | Salman Rushdie
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Professor Malik Solanka, retired historian of ideas, irascible doll maker, and since his recent fifty-fifth birthday celibate and solitary by his own (much criticized) choice, in his silvered years found himself living in a golden age. Outside his window, a long humid summer, the first hot season of the third millennium, baked and perspired. The city boiled with money. Rents and property values had never been higher, and in the garment industry it was widely held that fashion had never been so fashionable. - from FuryFrom one of the worlds truly great writers comes a wickedly brilliant and pitch-black comedy about a middle-aged professor who finds himself in New York City in the summer of 2000. Not since the Bombay of Midnights Children have a time and place been so intensely captured in a novel.Salman Rushdies eighth novel opens on a New York living at break-neck speed in an age of unprecedented decadence. Malik Solanka, a Cambridge-educated self-made millionaire originally from Bombay, arrives in this town of IPOs and white-hot trends looking, perversely, for escape. He is a man in flight from himself.This former philosophy professor is the inventor of a hugely popular doll whose multiform ubiquity as puppet, cartoon and talk-show host now rankles with him. He becomes frustratingly estranged from his own creation. At the same time, his marriage is disintegrating, and Solanka very nearly commits an unforgivable act. Horrified by the fury within him, he flees across the Atlantic.He discovers a city roiling with anger, where cab drivers spout invective and a serial killer is murdering women with a lump of concrete, a metropolis whose population is united by petty spats and bone-deep resentments. His own thoughts, emotions and desires, meanwhile, are also running wild. He becomes deeply embroiled in not one but two new liaisons, both, in very different ways, dangerous.Professor Solankas navigation of his new world makes for a hugely entertaining and compulsively readable novel. Fury is a pitiless comedy that lays bare, with spectacular insight and much glee, the darkest side of human nature.From the Hardcover edition.
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Texreader
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Mehso-so

A decent ending didn‘t justify the long slog to get there. So much filler—useless and mind-numbing. The bones of the story were good! But that would have made for a short book indeed. So it felt like words were thrown at the wall to fill in spaces between a decent plot. The two main female characters jabbered on and on and were mostly indistinguishable but for their age and race. So it seems Rushdie is not for me. #authoramonth

Amiable I‘m having a hard time getting through my pick for this month, too. 8mo
JoeMo I remember having mixed feelings about this too,and thought of it as “okay.” I hope to get around to Satanic Versesso someday to read what most think of as his best work. 8mo
TheLudicReader Slog says it all about this one. 8mo
Vansa Rushdie is VERY VERY hit or miss. His latest book, Victory City, and The golden house before it, are among the worst books I have read in my life. The Moors last sigh is one of the best books I've read! 7mo
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Texreader
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Another one where it‘s fun to watch the green stack up! #authoramonth @Soubhiville

Soubhiville Moving right along! 8mo
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Texreader
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Imaging the Commandments if they included omissions.

Really prescient that he listed Donald Trump. This book was written in 2001.

#authoramonth @Soubhiville

Cuilin 😳 8mo
Ruthiella Before Donald Trump became a political figure and a reality television personality in the early part of this century, he was mostly known for his epic divorce from Ivana Trump for his then mistress Marla Maples in the 1980s. I suspect that is where Rushdie is pulling from in his listing him here, especially alongside Hefner. (edited) 8mo
dabbe When I stayed at The Plaza in 1988 with my family (long story how we were ever able to stay there), he had just bought it. All of the workers we encountered there HATED him. He's been a grifter his whole life, but now he'll destroy America if he can't win because Drumpf is not a LOSER. #rantover #thanksforreading 8mo
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Texreader @Ruthiella And oddly such a fitting & seemingly timely reference here! 8mo
Texreader @dabbe I feel you. I‘m aghast that there are people who still worship him. 8mo
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Texreader
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I started this book tonight for #authoramonth @Soubhiville

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Texreader
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Running errands today & I happened to be near an HPB. I keep my handy-dandy list of books I need for my challenges. I didn‘t find any except this one. He was the only author for whom I didn‘t have a book for #authoramonth. Now I do! So that challenge is all set for the year.

I may have picked up a few other books as well. 😉

Soubhiville Gotta love HPB! 14mo
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dr.dalton
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Pickpick

For people who don't really love Salman Rushdie's writing, I feel that this book is his most accessable. It uses less of his magic realism style but contains all of the comic and coincidental situations. It's also more straightforwardly written than the average Rushdie novel and avoids his often criticized (unfairly in my opinion) overuse of grandiose adjectives and verboseness. Definitely give it a read as an introduction to Salman Rushdie.

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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?

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