Status Updates From The Satanic Verses

While the first part covered the background of Gibreel and Saladin, the second part comes to the point and looks into Mohammed (Mahound) as a historical figure. He's described as a human with weaknesses, first receiving the Satanic Verses about three pre-islamic godesses of Mecca from the archangel Gibreel, soon replacing them with a monotheistic prerogative. Rushdie refers to alleged apocryphal Koran suras.

For how complex and flourishing the writing is, I already find myself intimately involved in the novel.

More readable than I thought. I abandoned this shortly after release after a few pages. Still, will be a tough read and I need to be concentrated due to Rushdie's colourful Indian-British prose mixed with colloquial Indian words as well as religious and cultural allusions. The Satanic Verses so far have been mentioned in a half-sentence which couldn't aggravate any thinking person.