Are Copies Of The Satanic Verses Still Avalable To Buy?

[sandyRoe]

In these fraught times would booksellers be prepared to stock copies?

[Baldric]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Satanic-Verses-Salman-Rushdie/dp/0963270702

[Baldric]

http://www.bookdepository.com/book/9780963270702?redirected=true&gclid=CNPC0qiyocACFVNutAodFzsAOg

[jomifl]

I bought a copy a few years ago, prepare to be very bored...

[janbee]

I saw one in a local charity shop last week.

[Old_Geezer]

Repeating jomifl's post.
yawn
It was only the controversy that encouraged me to buy it.

[sandyRoe]

I was thinking of buying a copy. I definitely won't after reading the reviews here.

[jomifl]

Sandy, I wouldn't even bother to get it out of the library.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Got mine from Amazon years ago, Sandy. Gave up after 40 pages, then picked up book again a few months ago (just to say that I'd read it -unlike the morlock rentamob we saw bullying us back in 88). And still got 80 pages to go.
Rushdie does have something as a writer. There's the Anglo-Indian thing: he has the ability to observe and reflect on the interaction of cultures. Now and again he says something which is interesting and well expressed. Sufficiently so that I might have a go at Midnight's Children. But largely his style is self-consciously erudite and full of irritating cleverness designed more to impress Booker prize judges and his mates in Hampstead than the general reader such as me.
To cite Boris on Question Time (referring to Rushdie's knighthood): "I object to the award on purely literary grounds. In terms of pace, characterisation and plot Dick Francis is far the superior writer".

[jomifl]

V_E, a fair summary.

[vetuste_ennemi]

I will add that I think it unlikely that any educated Muslim who read it (assuming they could survive all the longueurs of this 500 page book) would find it particularly offensive.

[keyplus90]

You may borrow one from me. Welcome.

[EDDIE51]

On the Question of the actual 'Satanic Verses' I have never had a satisfactory explanation from a reliable source as to how the rest of the Quran can be certified as 'Non Satanic'
The story is that Allah personally dictated the Quran to Mohammed who then wrote it down. At one time Satan impersonated Allah so perfectly that Mohammed was fooled into incorporating the 'satanic verses' that Satan dictated into the Quran.
My argument is, that if this could happen once, how can we be certain that it did not happen more often and that so far unrecognised yet still 'Satanic' verses still form part of the Quran?
I have asked Muslims about this only to be told that to even think such a thing is blasphemous and in other parts of the world I would be killed just for suggesting it!
Any comments? If you do not see more posts from me soon I may already have been a victim.

[EDDIE51]

^^ well I'm still here so far!
Any comments on my question?

[sandyRoe]

Could they be apocryphal, more a thing of fable than divine inspiration?

[mibn2cweus]

If only such a degree of optimism was extended towards the process of reason.

[Theland]

The whole Koran is satanic

[mibn2cweus]

Why stop there Theland?

[ChillDoubt]

It can't be as boring as Captain Corelli's Mandolin.
I lost the will to live after 50 pages, the only book I've ever abandoned.

[naomi24]

My copy went to a charity shop.

Keyplus, I'm willing to bet you haven't read it.

Theland, //The whole Koran is satanic //

Be sensible. How can anything be Satanic? Seriously ... isn't that a daft notion?