A very strange book. I first tried to read it about 3 years ago and gave up at around page 100 (good effort, don't you think?). This time around, I picked it up for my f2f bookclub and was determined to finish it. I did it but still did not appreciate it.At first it was very hard to adjust to the way the book is written. It was written in a sort of autobiographical way; Saleem Sinai spoke of his personal history starting from his grandfather to the present time and there were so many time shifts without warning that it was, to begin with, just confused me and made the story hard to get into.There were also many shifts between personal history to the political history of India as the 'writer' believes himself (& others) to be directly affecting the tumultuous political situations.Overall: strange, interesting, annoying, confusing and to quote my fellow bookclubber, "trippy".
