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Liked It “Excellent book. Reading this book is like eating a very decadent rich chocolate mousse cake - one needs to slowly to savour each taste.” see full review » see other reviews » |
Didn’t Like It “I was trying to find Snow, It was no available so I choose this one to start reading for this writer. for me it was boring, I did not like it and I'm trying now to finish it during my free time or while I'm on the way to my work or my home.. |
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“The idea is phenomenal , but not well explored.
GIPA R wrote this review Sunday, November 8 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
This time , Pamuk failed , but we can understand because this was one of his first books.”“Excellent book. Reading this book is like eating a very decadent rich chocolate mousse cake - one needs to slowly to savour each taste. ”
CAROLE H wrote this review Friday, October 16 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“PRETTY ballin' but not cien por ciento ballin' if you know what i mean and i think you do. keep it real.”
Lynsey M wrote this review Sunday, August 9 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“I was trying to find Snow, It was no available so I choose this one to start reading for this writer. for me it was boring, I did not like it and I'm trying now to finish it during my free time or while I'm on the way to my work or my home..
Areej Q. AlYousef wrote this review Wednesday, April 15 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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“well, I know he won a Nobel Prize for Literature, but this book is a torture. I have to try the other ones.”
Llorelein . wrote this review Saturday, January 3 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“boring. the twist doesn't save a book that was hard to read on the bus.”
Sonia V wrote this review Wednesday, October 1 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
0 of 1 members found this review helpful“Without giving away the premise, this is a great book on many levels. There is the story itself, a European slave and an Ottoman master, and the love/hate relationship they develop while "becoming" each other. Then there is the wider story of the stagnation of the Ottoman Empire to the Western ideals of science, or even the difference of thought between Christian and Muslim. Finally, there is somewhat the struggles of modern Turkey and Ataturk, a country and man who are both East and West together. One must also ask, what was the White Castle and the weapon symbolizing? The curious outcome after decades of work make it an interesting note. I think reading this book without some historical knowledge of both the history of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey can leave the reader missing some of the greater implications. ”
Suzanne wrote this review Tuesday, August 26 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“"To search within, to think so long and hard about ourselves, would only make us unhappy". The middle part of the story with its excessive soul searching, only made slighty interesting by the twist of the 'twin' characters, revealed nothing about the setting of Istanbul, but much about the inner state of the protagonists. "We should search for the strange and surprising in the world, not within ourselves". The book started promising and the resulting expectation only came to fruition at the marvellous final chapter. "Peaches and cherries lay on a tray inlaid with mother-of-pearl upon a table ..."”
Speck wrote this review Wednesday, July 9 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This got on my reading list because I was looking for novels set in Istanbul, and I've read and liked Pamuk material before.
bookchica wrote this review Monday, November 5 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
This is a short but strange tale about a christian slave and a muslim savant in Ottoman Istanbul. The story focuses on the mysterious and bizarre relationship between the two, so alike in appearance that they are mistaken for brothers or twins, yet so different in character. Or are they?
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“Haunting character study about two men caught in a strange relationship of class and resemblance.”
Greenberry wrote this review Sunday, August 26 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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