![]() ![]() There was once, in the country of Alifbay, a sad city, the saddest of cities, a city so ruinously sad that it had forgotten its name. ![]() I’m so stoked over this first page (page 15 in my edition) that here it is, in full: Rushdie is brilliant!īy the time I turned to the second page of Haroun and the Sea of Stories, I was grinning ear-to-ear, feeling like a ten-year-old in anticipation of a bedtime story. Only now do I realize how much I’ve missed out. ![]() It wasn’t until a decade later when I perused a list of his books that I realized he didn’t write The Terrible Book. This sour experience struck Rushdie from my list of intriguing authors. It wasn’t and I tanked multiple papers in succession. In college, I skimmed a terrible book* by Salman Rushdie and crossed my fingers that it would be relevant for two days of discussion then forgotten. ![]()
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