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East, West
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8/10 stars
Salman Rushdie's collected short stories focused on the meaning of home.
Some real pearls in this one: At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers, angry and prescient, and laughing madly through tears, Chekhov and Zulu, a heartwarming and heartbreaking tale of friendship and displacement masterfully clad in the Star Trek language and concepts, and The Courter, a beautiful love story stretched between East and West.
There was one complete dud, too, alas -Yorick was just absolutely not to my liking, even with the knowledge that it's meant as a typical cock-and-bull story I felt that the joke was stretched too thin.
Salman Rushdie's collected short stories focused on the meaning of home.
Some real pearls in this one: At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers, angry and prescient, and laughing madly through tears, Chekhov and Zulu, a heartwarming and heartbreaking tale of friendship and displacement masterfully clad in the Star Trek language and concepts, and The Courter, a beautiful love story stretched between East and West.
There was one complete dud, too, alas -Yorick was just absolutely not to my liking, even with the knowledge that it's meant as a typical cock-and-bull story I felt that the joke was stretched too thin.
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Reading Progress
March 17, 2021
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Started Reading
March 17, 2021
– Shelved
March 30, 2021
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55.8%
"Now we're talking.
“We, the public, are easily, lethally offended. We have come to think of taking offense as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From the high ground we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities. We take pride in our short fuses. Our anger elevates, transcends.”"
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“We, the public, are easily, lethally offended. We have come to think of taking offense as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From the high ground we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities. We take pride in our short fuses. Our anger elevates, transcends.”"
March 31, 2021
– Shelved as:
fiction
March 31, 2021
– Shelved as:
short
March 31, 2021
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Finished Reading
