“This was the MOST confusing, uninteresting, boring book I ever read...I saw no story, just wandering and changing minds. The part about the religions was the only part that was even mildly interesting. I will never agree that just because a book is from the WINNING LIST it is necessarily a winning book...sometimes they are just confusing and people mistake confusing with brilliant because they can't make heads nor tails out of it...THE KING IS NAKED AND DOESN'T HAVE ON INVISIBLE CLOTHES!”
“I read this book a while ago, so my thoughts and feelings are in hindsight. The prose was excellent, and Pamuk is a genius pundit. What I remember about this book is that the narrator is both cynical and passionate, frustrated and satiated, brave yet reserved. The paradoxes abound. I have always loved learning about different cultures and I think he paints the Turks in color, black, white and transluscence.”
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“The book is about a poet returning to his native country (Turkey)to investigate the day-to-day life of many Turks amdist religious/political turmoil. It gives an insight of a country caught between the past and future. So many ordinary people yearning for a change and at the same time the refusal of others to embrace it.”
“Absolutely brilliant.......it is goin to stay with me for a while.”
“a very intrigued ,realistic ,and poetic book. very different kind of book. often relegion tends towards fanaticism and that we see all the time.that mixed with the authour's love life , interlaced with inspiring poetry , eventually ending in unsuspected revealations make the novel perfect .”
“I liked the book,it is an entirely different out look to the world of islam or any other religion in cross roads with politics.The so called modern or wester outlook forcing their root in to the regional cultures.The right of the region becoming the wrong of the westeren world.it is fearful as well as boring.Seeing a world in the colours of gray insted of different colours of the hue.And that basic human being is all the same in his roots.An entiely different out look altoughter.As for Nobel, everybody know why,especially those living in the developing countries”
“An expatriate poet travels to the shabby city of Kars in Turkey, ostensibly to report on a series of young women who have committed suicide. His alterior motive, however, is to marry a friend's newly-divorced wife. As the poet, Ka, moves from observer to participant in life, poems flow unbidden for the first time in four years. The gifts of inspiration and happiness come at a huge cost as Ka becomes more entangled in the web of players and factions in Kars. Ka's actions set a chain of events into motion in an otherwise paralyzed cast of characters, with a backdrop of faded glory covered in snow. The novel provides an avenue to understanding middle eastern culture to some extent, but I found myself observing, rather than fully engaging in the culture or the characters.”
“I made cry after first snow of this season.. all I wanted to do was to sit in snow and read the last three chapters again...”
