re who has read rushdie s the satanic verses in article optima cs arizona edu sham cs arizona edu shamim zvonko mohamed writes in article r cl innknk bozo dsinc com perry dsinc com jim perry writes anyway since i seem to be the only one following this particular line of discussion i wonder how many of the rest of the readership have read this book what are your thoughts on it i read it when it first came out and i liked it at the time i still sorta kinda thought of myself as a muslim and i couldn t see what the flap was all about thank you i now know at least that though i may be on drugs at least i m not the only one the writing style was a little hard to get used to but it was well worth the effort coming from a similar background rushdie grew up in bombay in a muslim family and moved to england i grew up in new delhi it made a strong impression on me and he used many of the strange constructions of indian english the yaar at the end of a sentence butbutbut the occasional hindi phrase etc yes this took some getting used to of course not having an indian connection no knowledge of hindi etc this was not trivial for me i did have thanks to the wonders of the net a glossary to satanic verses posted to rec arts books by vijay raghavan which explains a lot of the indian english constructions indian culture references even the islamic references jahilia submission the context of the satanic verses incident etc what i have only covers the first couple of hundred pages but it helped me get into the flow of the novel i can mail this to anyone interested if anyone has portions after part i if they exist i d like to get those jim perry perry dsinc com decision support inc matthews nc these are my opinions for a nominal fee they can be yours
