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I love Rushdie's style, and this is a wonderful allegory, I can see why it's won the Booker of Bookers, but also why some people cannot finish reading it.

Full of fascinating ideas - and it really does feature an electric sheep!

Worth perservering with, despite the constant use of Spanish phrases - an insight into the macho Dominican culture, but very violent in places.

Book club choice. It's an interesting basis for a novel, but I think The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga is better

Very disturbing, but let down by the ending

Full of entertaining insights - the book is long, but most sections are pretty short, so it's very readable.

It's certainly thought-provoking, though if it's supposed to enrage me it didn't work - lumping all of 'the left' together is a step too far.

A very short but fun read

An excellent account of the men who went to the moon, and what it all meant.

Essential reading for anyone who eats fish and wants to continue eating fish.

A strangely-compelling story of revenge

The true murder story which inspired fiction by Wilkie Collins, Henry James and Charles Dickens