I preferred your bacon troll.
Still, I can't resist, so I'll just chip in with my opinion that Salmon Rushdie is shit (having read one of his books).
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 9:12, 1 reply)

You make an excellent point.
It's not like he's been nominated for the Booker a few times and won it once and been knighted for literature and produced a slew of critically acclaimed literary novels, non-fiction essays and children's books all while being under threat of death or owt.

I can't imagine why anybody would consider him comparable to some smug west coast poshboy who's made a career selling the same pulp fiction book over and over again to people who think they're too clever to read pulp fiction.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 9:23, closed)

All well and good,
but could either of them beat Richard Dawkins in "make the best bacon sandwich" competition?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 12:39, closed)

I reckon Dawkins has got that one in the bag.
He married a Timelord. Motherfucker can make a sandwich.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 13:25, closed)

So you'll find validation in international acclaim and prizes but sneer at those pointing at their Star Wars pun getting in the top three?
As usual, one rule for critically lauded novelists and another for strangers on an internet message board.

Rushdie loses points for letting Bono near his work though.

Re: American Psycho, it must be shit as I remember thinking it was great as a sixth former.
( Pig Bodine., Tue 12 Mar 2013, 13:55, closed)

wtfayboa?

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 15:16, closed)

but he hasn't though.
American Psycho is only similar to Glamorama in terms of his output. He hasn't sold it over and over. Lunar Park was atrocious, but Imperial Bedrooms is very very good.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 18:20, closed)

Fair enough.
Remind me ... is Imperial Bedrooms the crass parody about the wealthy and self-obsessed sadist? Or is that American Psycho? Or Less Than Zero?

It's just I get them a bit confused. What with them all being the same schlocky pulp crap about the same two-dimensional wank-fantasy-autobiographical Brett Easton Ellis character.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 19:09, closed)

I am well impressed with your mad literary skillz
Dr. Shampoo. Your mummy and daddy must be well pleased that you doing such a good job of your BA. Especially being a 1st year Lit. student and all.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Tue 12 Mar 2013, 20:57, closed)

The taking the piss out of yuppies is the good bit, the violence is really irrelevant, which is, I think, the point. And on that point (and that point alone) it's not half bad. But let's not confuse pulp lit with lit (Rushdie's Midnight Children is great, Satanic Verses difficult to keep interested in, but either way, it's a different standard of writing altogether - so not, in my opinion, comparable).
(MayorBoris, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 21:04, closed)

I really liked The Satanic Verses.
I prefer Ballard to Rushdie though.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 21:20, closed)

I've nothing really against the book or his mad success
it's just irritating when people wank on about it as if it's something more than just airport pulp fiction.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 21:20, closed)

Subjective commentary lols

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 13 Mar 2013, 8:57, closed)

lol rofl willy bum poo poo

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 21:19, closed)