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  <title><![CDATA[Istanbul: Memories and the City]]></title>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">2003</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>&#304;stanbul: Hativalar ve &#351;ehir</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Orhan Pamuk]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is just lucky that I happened to read Menocal's <em>Ornament of the World</em> just before this, as it perfectly prepared me for the psychological labyrinth that is this book. It introduced me to a beautiful, helpful image for Pamuk's creation- the &quot;memory palaces&quot; and &quot;memory gardens&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31986830">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The most enchanting thing about this book is its symmetry. He opens with a statement that from a very young age he suspected that somewhere in the streets of Istanbul, there lived another Orhan so much like him that he could pass for his twin, even his double. In the last chapter, his father apparen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20706158">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was not, first of all, the book I espected it to be.  It was not truly an autobiography of the author, who gave nothing at all away, at least in the context of the west (perhaps it would shock conservative Turks that he apparently had a sexual relationship with a girl as a young man, but I don'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14302740">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49846843">
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  <date_added>Fri Mar 20 02:01:59 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Mar 20 02:02:49 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Istanbul adalah memoar dari peraih nobel sastra 2006 asal Turki, Orhan Pamuk. Namun berbeda dengan memoar-memoar lainnya yang biasanya  lebih mengutamakan kisah hidup si penulisnya, dalam memoarnya ini Pamuk tak hanya berkisah mengenai sejarah hidupnya.  Dengan cara betutur seperti dalam novel-novel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49846843">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40654348">
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Dec 21 23:59:37 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 22 00:05:49 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am shortly going to Istanbul for the first time and, rather than a Rough Guide or Lonely Planet it seemed that this Nobel Prize winning author might be a rather better guide. It is largely autobiographical and recounts his growing up in this great City. He is at his best for me when it becomes a m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40654348">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It wasn't really what I expected, though I'm not sure what I expected. It says a lot about people who described Istanbul at some point in the history. Poets, writes, historians, journalists, painters, etc. Lots of them are foreign, but there are some Turkish ones as well. The author talks a lot abou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10953641">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51146524">
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    <body><![CDATA[In preparation for my May journey to the Balkans, I found my first excuse to read Pamuk. Everybody brags about his novels, but this nonfiction biography -- of himself and his lifelong home -- also won some acclaim. And it's no wonder: The book blends personal reflection, in roughly chronological ord...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51146524">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39668157">
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Orhan Pamuk’s book about Istanbul is an odd book on this blog, for it is not about a travel experience, but about a personal journey and the spirit of the city where Pamuk lived all his life. I must admit, I lived in Turkey for three years when I was a child, so the book brought back familiar scen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39668157">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57575388">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Menangkap Huzun Dengan Penuh Kehormatan di Istanbul <br/><br/>Jika Aku berkesempatan untuk jalan-jalan ke luar negeri,  salah satu negara yang ingin aku singgahi adalah Turki dan Istanbul khususnya.  Umumnya aku mengenal Turki lewat sekolah dan sejenis acara traveling diTV tapi setelah membaca kee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57575388">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72895834">
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 02:29:41 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the best book I've read about Istanbul, a city I have visited many times and always find something new in. For photographers it cannot be bettered, and the photos are on every page. Pamuk weaves the city into his personal history, his family descended from the upper echelons of Ottoman socie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72895834">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61164310">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book. I loved Pamuk's description of his childhood with his family, the mood in Istanbul - attraction to Westernization, the melancholy of the lost/rotting grandeur of the empire times - and his longing to become an artist. He writes about that phase when you resent everything ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61164310">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51618099">
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book because I wanted to read about Mr Pamuk's family &amp; personal history. Istanbul in itself does not interest me much, but some of the things he wrote about are truly fascinating. He is also a hilarious memoirist, i really enjoyed reading some parts of this book. I did not, however, enj...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51618099">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45460408">
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>Reminiscent of works by Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garc&quot;a M_rquez, Pamuk's novels, mostly set in his native Turkey, have racked up an International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, <em>New York Times</em> Notable Books of the Year, and profiles on NPR (see <em>Snow</em>, ***1/2 Nov/Dec 2004). Marcel Proust comes...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45460408">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39592439">
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this a year or two ago, a good deal before my recent trip to Istanbul. At that time I found it more than I wanted to know about either the author or Istanbul. Now, having been there, I picked it up again and found it much more enticing. In fact, it made me question how much I had really seen ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39592439">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40693167">
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    <body><![CDATA[it learn us about swaim thought in diffrent people]]></body>
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    <review id="54907416">
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  <read_at>Mon May 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very brief comment for the time being: This book goes beyond a “Memories” and a tale of City with maybe a double history, with her many cultural/political shades.<br/>Orhan’s sincerity in his either picturesque personal expressions and/or of the city he grows up in its’ drastic changes in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54907416">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[خبئت هذه الرواية حتى موعد سفري الى اسطنبول<br/>و حاولت ان اتتبع الاماكن التي كان باموك يأتي على ذكرها في الرواية<br/> كان احساسا جميلا ان تشرب قهوتك في ذات الامكنة المو...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73357157">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[About a year ago, when I was brainstorming the topic for my master’s thesis, I stumbled upon the idea of space and identity relationship.  Since then, I’ve always been interested in how space and place can affect the formation of one’s self. Reading <em>Istanbul</em> has strengthened that particular id...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48754590">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I tried to read Pamuk before (Snow), and I didn't care for it, but as I am going to Turkey for the first time in a month, I figured I'd give him another try.  It is nonfiction and memoir-ish, a very different type of book than Snow.<br/><br/>On the artist<br/>It was an interesting &quot;Portrait ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32270119">more...</a>]]></body>
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