It's perfectly acceptable to say Rushdie's books are unreadable nonsense. It's a matter of opinion. Dutch was clearly saying that there is no justification for violence against authors, regardless of what they write. This constant picking apart of people's posts, or trying to cast people in the worst possible light, does absolutely nothing for the forum.
Feel like giving Rusdie another go though
Death has always been great for business when it comes to artists, writers and musicians.Do you feel like the gullible victim of a PR stunt?
Is multiple stab-wounds to the throat and eye the new way to win readers?
I'm not sure how you can measure that. Isn't it all dependent on what you like and what you want to read?I won't like. Rushdie is one of the finest authors of all time.
I'm not sure how you can measure that. Isn't it all dependent on what you like and what you want to read?
Many people regard Jane Austen as being one of the greatest authors of all time. I personally have no interest in reading Jane Austen.
I like reading genres that many turn their noses up at such as horror, sci-fi and fantasy. I started reading very early and always wanted to be taken to somewhere that wasn't *here*, wasn't *real*. Hence I love superheroes, alien planets, magic swords etc etc. I very rarely read any contemporary fiction. I do read non-fiction occasionally - biographies and travelogues but very rarely.
It's perfectly acceptable to say Rushdie's books are unreadable nonsense. It's a matter of opinion. Dutch was clearly saying that there is no justification for violence against authors, regardless of what they write. This constant picking apart of people's posts, or trying to cast people in the worst possible light, does absolutely nothing for the forum.
This is why I found it interesting that my BiL also found it impenetrable. He has a degree in Fine Art and English Literature and reads very different books to me, but he also couldn't get through it.I guess it's that I studied English literature, and I'm interested in it, so I don't think dismissing anything as 'unreadable nonsense' is particularly fair. Unless it's Jeffrey Archer.
This is why I found it interesting that my BiL also found it impenetrable. He has a degree in Fine Art and English Literature and reads very different books to me, but he also couldn't get through it.
There is plenty of unreadable nonsense out there (just try Amazon Kindle Unlimited for a sample) but whether a book is readable or not, and whether I like a book or not, I don't believe that it, or the author should be censored. If you don't like a book, read something else. Islamic Fatwahs are not the way forward for any society.