Comments on: Reason #482 Why Salman Rushdie is a Colossal Douchebag

By: Noelle

Noelle — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:03:53 +0000

That curse is totally true, you know. When he was in his 40’s, my grandpa got to hold someone else’s Oscar. Fifty-three years later, he was dead.

By: James Marcus

James Marcus — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:35:55 +0000

With two truly great novels under his belt (that would be “Midnight’s Children” and “Shame”), I don’t think Rushdie needs to worry about your spitballs, folks. I agree that his subsequent work has failed to match that one-two punch. But does he really deserve a flogging for palpating somebody else’s Oscar? It’s not a crime.

By: James

James — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:52:50 +0000

I don’t know the extent of Rushdie’s douchebaggery, but is this anecdote really supposed to illustrate it? Altman clearly suggests it’s bad luck for Rushdie to hold someone else’s Oscar, but he does it anyway because he doesn’t care about his own odds of winning one. One of his proudest moments is meeting Robert Altman on Oscar night, so that makes him a douche?

By: LouisBranning

LouisBranning — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:47:21 +0000

“Overrated”, “unreadable”, “pompous”, yeah, Edward Y., you’ve totally nailed SR.

By: Edward Yang

Edward Yang — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:23:57 +0000

Write the other 481 reasons and you got yourself a book that I will gladly fork over 23.99 for. Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children excepted, is the most overrated writer of the last 30 years. I find him unreadable, his prose as pompous as he is.