Comments on: Beautiful clown

By: Salman

Salman — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 22:10:31 +0000

That’s enough, Padma. Go to your room so I can spank you.

By: A N N A

A N N A — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 18:52:08 +0000

sheesh, manish. stop posting under fake handles.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 18:24:41 +0000

Salman Rushdie is a great writer. He deserves the Nobel Prize.

By: RUSHDIEisGOD

RUSHDIEisGOD — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 22:10:38 +0000

The Nobel Prize is under suspicion while Salman Rushdie doesn’t get it. NOBEL PRIZE FOR RUSHDIE!!!!!!! Are the terrorists so strong? Are we going to allow that he won’t recieve it? Do u believe in God, I believe in Rushdie. Thank u mr. Rushdie.

By: RUSHDIEisGOD

RUSHDIEisGOD — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 16:16:03 +0000

Note: Requests for celebrities' contact info; racist, abusive, content-free or commercial comments; and long, obscure rants will be deleted. Unless theyÂ’re funny. ItÂ’s all good then.

If I'd get Rushdie's contact info I would forget to go to the church on sundays.

By: Guillermo

Guillermo — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 06:16:23 +0000

We must thank mr. Rushdie for letiing us know that the gods were not dead with Shakespeare. He is, simply, the best writer in English language and, probably, a reencarnation of the magician of Stratford upon Avon. From Madrid, dying of hunger for reading this new book of Master Rushdie, let me recommend to everybody his masterpiece, the booker of bookers: a new Bible for Literature lovers.

By: Rani

Rani — Fri, 27 May 2005 18:19:43 +0000

The “blurb” that Punjabi Boy posted to start off these comments is a review from Kirkus. (no byline) It’s a star and anyone in publishing knows what that means. (Hint: Good for sales.)

By: Saurav

Saurav — Thu, 26 May 2005 19:06:50 +0000

But you can't mess with The Ground Beneath Her Feet and Midnight's Children, IMO

I couldn't get through Midnight's Children. It's so dense and I have self-diagnosed ADD (it took me about 623423 tries to get through To The Lighthouse and I think I didn't catch about half of 100 years of solitude).

I'll stick with Zadie Smith for now...less intricate, but more warm feelings. But one day, when I get treatment, watch out--I'm going to mow through the Rushdie oeuvre the way I destroyed The Powerbroker.

Btw, if anyone's an editor here, I strongly urge you to take a knife to the latter. It could be 500 pages shorter and you would be doing a public service.

By: Manish Vij

Manish Vij — Thu, 26 May 2005 19:01:20 +0000

You should hear my English accent, its so amazing.

PB, the women you’re flirting with look like Elisha Cuthbert, Ivana Milicevic and January Jones. Just come out to Wisconsin and stop by the first bar you see

What I dont get is the kind of hyperbole of praise for him which his fans seem afflicted by…

I was at a large bookstore in Lincoln Center the other day and asked the guy at the info desk if he could recommend someone who writes like Rushdie.

The guy looked at me and said, ‘No one writes like Rushdie.’

Damn hyperbolic Rushdie fans!

By: DesiDancer

DesiDancer — Thu, 26 May 2005 17:50:59 +0000

I have to agree with Manish on this one, but Fury really did SUCK. What an overblown hand-job attempt to suck up to his supermodel wife...

But you can't mess with The Ground Beneath Her Feet and Midnight's Children, IMO.