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commented on Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children (Hardcover, 1981, New York, Knopf) No rating

Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very …

I'm almost a quarter of the way through and our protagonist hasn't even been born yet. It's a slog. Some of the longest sentences I have ever read. They are elongated by semicolons, ellipses, and dashes. The narrator keeps interrupting his story to mention his discussions with his wife about this part of the story. So far I don't feel it adds to the book at all. I'm hoping it gets better after our main character shows up.