Before we get too excited about defending Salman Rushdie rather than handing him to Iran, has anyone actually read his novels? does anyone know anyone who has read his novels? I have bought more than my fair share, and have not managed to get beyond the first hundred pages. I lie I got a dutifully ploughed a third of the way through Midnight's Children and had a fair stab at Satanic Verses. They are unreadable and consequently unread. He doesn't sell, and even the people who have his books on their bookshelves, haven't actually read them.
Why waste an honour on him? his book sales belie the real picture. The man has less appeal than a Turner prize and at least people go and look at the Turner prize. The reason that Salman Rushdie was given a knighthood was political. Lets provoke the muslims extremists, show how awful they are, and then we can remove further civil liberties.
Giving Salmon Rushdie a knighthood can only be seen as an act of deliberate provocation. Well personally I don't want to see London bombed for the sake of a second rate novelist. Bad books, in bad taste, that no one reads. Let him return to literary obscurity, and falling sales without undeserved publicity for his overrated books.
Hand back the knighthood Salman, you didn't deserve it anyway and enough people have died defending your self promoting agenda. Return to oblivion, from where you should never have been raised. I loved Suitable Boy and God of Small Things, but Satanic Verses, Midnights Children, not in the same league, Unreadable and unread!
Copyright (c) Dr. Liz Miller.
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