Oh Rushdie. Your voice is just as deep and narrative as I would expect from a British guy.
Anyway, I didn't like the book Midnight's Children - it dragged on too long, I wasn't satisfied with the hero's eventual marriage to Padma (I had kind of assumed they were married already?) In my view, this dragged on too long. The thematic undercurrents of it were violently pushing me around and I drowned....in the literary sense.
But just because I didn't like the work doesn't mean I can't love the man behind it. Rushdie was stellar in this interview. When he describes humans as "storytelling animals?" Brilliant. My favorite quote: "We define ourselves by stories...if someone tries to control that, we simply, in my view, cannot be ourselves."
Tell it like it is, brother! Remember North Korea!!
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