"I’m so clumsy in this new world of social media sometimes. He responded by writing on Goodreads that: Rushdie, it turns out, thought the ratings were private. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust, were deemed worthy of a perfect five-star rating.Īlmost immediately, Rushdie's followers on Goodreads questioned his judgment. Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis's award winning first novel, which Time declared one of the 100 best novels published since the magazine's inception, received a single measly star. Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize–winning To Kill a Mockingbird got only three stars. That was what Rushdie didn't quite understand when he started giving brutally low ratings to some of literature's most beloved works. Both can be viewed by anyone who follows a given user. They also have the option of writing a brief review. On Goodreads, people share what they are currently reading and give books they've finished a star rating. The esteemed British Indian novelist, whose work has won numerous awards and provoked controversy, stirred up heated discussion with his posts on the book-centric social networking site Goodreads. Salman Rushdie has a way with words, but he's not so great with star ratings.
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