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  • Knighthood

    Oh, I am so delighted! I own,'' Haroun....,'' please sell me your extra copy of, '' Satanic Verses. '' I'm of humble, humble, means. I treasure my literature collection. This is historic and I want to will my books to my only grandchild, Chloe Rose. Chloe is 14mo.s ( I am very old! ) We are witness, only change is permanent. ...
    Posted to Letter From London by grgr on June 26, 2007

  • I strongly disagree

    The issue of free speech being raised here is completely specious. We defended Rushdie, we paid millions for his security. The UK did its bit for free-speech. But now we've gone a step further. We've actually honoured a man best-known for insulting Muslim beliefs. Free-speech is no longer the issue. And we seem to have done it deliberately. ...
    Posted to Letter From London by GreenwichJ on June 22, 2007

  • Well deserved Knighthood

    Rushdie richly deserves this knighthood on purely literary grounds. Certainly, everyone can think of some author they like more and many people find him unreadable, but what author is loved by every single person in the world? It would be even better if the idea of supporting free speech had played some role in this event, but we now know (from ...
    Posted to Letter From London by omarali50 on June 21, 2007

  • Re: poor salman rushdie

    But Satanic Verses is no good... it just gets attention because of the fatwa. Look, Midnight's Children may be the best book written in the last 25 years. I think Rushdie is like a lot of people who have written a great novel: he's written one truly great book and a bunch of middling ones.
    Posted to Letter From London by Freddie on June 21, 2007

  • An odd award to Shaitan Rusul

    Very, very peculiar. Martin Amis. Kazuo Ishiguro. Ian McEwan. Just three British novelists with a better claim to a knighthood than Salman Rushdie. Rushdie who, incidentally, was born in India and lives in New York. Who, as Wheatcroft says, is a ''self-appointed scourge of post-imperial British racism''. Rushdie now a ''Knight of the British ...
    Posted to Letter From London by GreenwichJ on June 21, 2007

  • poor salman rushdie

    consistently lauded for works completed nearly two decades ago. must be frustrating for a writer to keep delivering new prose when all people want to talk about is midnight's children and satanic verses. its rough that no one for a second discussed the knighthood in relation to fury (at having shelled out $24.95 for a hard cover) or the ground ...
    Posted to Letter From London by mrbiswas on June 20, 2007