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Liked It1 of 1 members found this review helpful ““Snow” is a book about the difficulties faced by a nation torn between tradition, religion, and modernization. Set in the farthest east of Turkey in a town named Kars, the locals are certain that in Western eyes they're all considered ignorant yokels. They suffer from a dreadful inferiority...” see full review » see other reviews » |
Didn’t Like It “VERY strange book. Read it for a Book Discussion club. We actually had a lot to discuss.” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“VERY strange book. Read it for a Book Discussion club. We actually had a lot to discuss.”
Lynn D wrote this review 3 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Very strong!”
Michael R wrote this review 9 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“A Turkish poet and journalist returns from exile in Germany to investigate the suicides of several young girls who were banned from wearing their traditional Muslim headscarves in the secular Turkish schools. He also meets up with his lost love from his university days, and walks into a wildcat coup against the government. While all this is going on, he writes a group of about 20 poems.
Shibopshibop wrote this review 12 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
This book may have clinched the Nobel Prize for Literature for Mr. Pamuk.”“translated books are rarely fun.
bmuqtadir wrote this review 2 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Sentences lack the flow and often feel disjointed. ”
“Lara's "I tired to love you" book. But Jill is reading it and likes it.”
BYOB Book Club wrote this review 3 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“good one”
fahim abbas wrote this review Monday, November 16 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“a beautiful book...a complicated theme, but written in such flowing poetic language....simply beautiful”
PARVATHY S wrote this review Tuesday, November 10 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I got 5 chapters in and could not go on...I could not see the point.”
Melanie C wrote this review Monday, November 9 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Fascinating, though a bit depressing at times.”
Dirk Paul F wrote this review Sunday, November 8 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“I'm full of admiration for his writing - there are many arresting comments and sentences.
Michael the Bookworm wrote this review Thursday, November 5 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
The way the narrator (called Orhan, it turns out) comes into focus steadily as the book progresses is good.
The world he portrays is claustrophobic and confused. Brilliantly done. The town isolated in the snow is a great device, as is having the leader of a theatrical troupe as the coup leader.
The dramatisation of Islamist viewpoints on the west is fascinating.
As with My Name is Red, there is a sense of the tide of life continuing on after the events, in both cases centred on women with children.”
