Sir Salman Rushdie

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Any chance of him paying back all the money spent on protecting him?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Any chance of him paying back all the money spent on protecting him?

As much chance, as Andrew Marr pointed out, as Pakistan returning the aid increase we gave them last year.

Heh. True. Twas but a cheap shot and not really meant anyway.

Btw, my problem with Rushdie isn't the Satantic Verses (or all the money spent on him) as such, but the fact that all his books post-Midnight's Children have been little more than self-regarding dross, of the sort that is much too common in modern literature.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

... has anyone on here read Fury?

No.  I've never read anything by Rushdie.  Honestly I have rather a prejudice against that type of writer.

I thought you'd like him for slandering religion.

I love the religion-slandering, I'm just somewhat unenthused about third-world literature.  My favorite authors are mostly public-schooled Englishmen.. and a few Americans of similar class.

Rushdie was educated at a private school of some kind in Bombay/Mumbai, at a public school in England (Rugby IIRC) and then at Cambridge. I think you'd like him.