Step Across This Line
Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002

I finally returned to this book and decided to stop approaching it by doggedly slogging through the first 4/5ths of it in order to "earn" reading what I bought it for: what Rushie had to say after the Sept 11, 2001 attacks on the US. Boy am I glad I did. Here is a link to what he wrote in just the m......more

Somewhere in the course of this collection of his non-fiction works, Rushdie says, "[we].. are like a child picking shells on the beach never noticing the huge ocean of magnificient beauty right in front of it..". I sit mesmerized, looking around myself in awe, wondering where to start and where to......more

Rushdie writes with a golden pen and I have nothing new to say about that. This collection is exactly what it says on the tape -- a decade's assortment of nonfiction covering a smorgasbord of subjects. As with any topically broad collection, not every piece resonates with me equally, but I do feel R......more

Rushdie has been hit or miss for me. I devoured Haroun and the Sea of Stories; savored Shalimar the Clown and The Ground Beneath Her Feet. but I can't seem to make myself get into Midnight's Children, I try and I stall. I've read about have of The Moor's Last Sigh and don't really mind that I don't......more

I don't even know why I stuck with this book to the very end but I guess I kept hoping it will get better when it didn't. The idea of having this non-fiction collection on absolutely random topics packed together intrigued me because I thought it would be super cool if he managed to pull it off and......more