listened to an LA Theatre Works production of this.\
It was surprising & reminded me how much I like theatre.

Actually had an audio version of this. Shakespeare is best served aurally! Favorite words/phrases include Flibbertigibbet, “Vex not his ghost”, “Take the shadow of this tree for your good host”, “gilded butterflies”, “indistinguished space of women’s will”—gotta love it!

Part I, I liked, though I had to get through the constant visits to the glossary to ‘get’ the Polish & Yiddish references. I wish the translator had handled this a little differently I think. I was moved by the kid’s efforts to make sense of WWII from an Israeli kid’s perspective.

Part II, reality has become unhinged. —I usually like that kind of unhinging. I’m finding it hard to stay motivated on this one.

Wow, I was blown away by the way the characters are developed, & how a plot of misery-turning-to-greater-misery leaves me not in dispair, but hopeful somehow… Mistry creates characters, & then shows their lives w/o playing to the reader’s emotions… artfully conceived & executed!

also, as a historical novel, this gives more of a sense of what might have been realistic in Indira Ghandi’s reign…

wow!

so far….

I don’t ‘get it’

perhaps I’m looking for intellectual understanding, but—I’m usually open to other kinds of understanding, & I’m having a hard time getting beyond the hierarchy of the zen system to really enjoy…

Yum! Alice in wonderland, meets master crafstman, meets sensual wordsmith!

Oh wow! Yum.

A mix of Western & Eastern Jazz together in one fantastic album! Marcel Khalife is a master oud player, & he has gathered together an international cast of piano, violin (MMMMMMMM), vibraphone and bass.

It’s sexy, sophisticated, energetic and inspiring!

read a biography of the prophet M. before reading this to get a sense of what the ‘fuss’ was about!

This book could stand on its own, & might have caused a sensation in the literary world even if Rushdie hadn’t traversed so many taboos.

reading along, what seems like a perfectly normal description, suddenly Rushdie’s craft takes flight & you are looking at the world, only ‘twisted’ – suddently nothing is as it seemed!

Rushdie is in a class alone.

If you’re going to read any of his books, read this one first! Delicious!

um—the most painfully awful book I’ve ever finished.

My father put $20 in the back - mine as soon as I finished the @#$#$ thing. It took me YEARS & was definitely NOT worth it.