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vladimir estragon - 19 June 2007 06:31 PM

I asked a simple question - of you, not Electra - and you haven’t answered it, and I’m “clownish and juvenile”?

Does anybody know of a conservative web site where grown-ups post comments?

I asked you a simple question, and you haven’t answered it. 

If you were a terrorist, how would your posts be any different than they are now?

Rushdie is a fantastic writer, and it’s his incredible talent that has earned him the knighthood, not the fatwa or his politics. My favorite, and certainly the easiest to read, of his books is “Haroun and the Sea of Stories” but “Shalimar the Clown” and “Midnight Children” are also fantastic.

I’m curious, in what way is Rushdie a “pedestrian” writer?

Not so fantastic, according to the serious literary critics in Britain.  Make of that what you will.

I’m a pretty prolific reader but could never get through any of his stuff, myself.

Rushdie’s main problem, though, is he is a Britain/western culture basher; one of the reasons he is so well-loved by the Western-culture-hating left.  After Britain spent 10 million pounds paying for his protection after The Satanic Verses, he still had nothing good to say about Britain or its culture.

Here’s a surprising piece by Ruth Dudley Edwards.  Surprising because his kind is usually her cup of tea.

http://tinyurl.com/2q4xoz