Intially, the plot line appears fantastic, and it is, but what is
amazing about Rushdie is his ability to make the story perfunctory,
everyday. I have heard comments that Rushdie blends fantastical
occurances with reality in sublime fashion, and maybe he does, but
in doing so he waters down the very attribute that made the Satanic
Verses interesting - the supernatural. There are undeniably
narratives of great interest, unfortuneatly these are not the norm.
Finally, the book, from its fantasical beginings, eventually ends
with a mundane conclusion. There was really no climax.
Although the book represents a laudable contemporary novel about
religion in a location and period of tumultous domestic relations,
the story itself is not entertaining, but at the same time, too
fictional do be edifying. It seems, for myself at least, the
Satanic Verses is destined only to be forgoten.