Instruct: Classify the given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Positive impression, but not Rushdie's greatest novel

Your reviewer of the 20th February gives the impression of not having read this book. It is absurd to suggest that Mr Rushdie has merely 'stolen' and degraded a story from Islamic culture. While this may not be Rushdie's greatest novel (subjectively, I would rate it lower than both 'Midnight's Children' and 'The Moor's Last Sigh'), surely one of its most remarkable achievements is in the way in which he synthesises material from the Islamic tradition with pure fiction. It is unfortunate that this book mainly became famous through the fundamentalist reaction to it