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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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    <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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    <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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    <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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    <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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    <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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    <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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    <body><![CDATA[Orhan Pamukâ€™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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    <body><![CDATA[Turkey's foremost novelist unlocks the door to his past in this carefully structured and thoughtful exploration of the city that has both sheltered and inspired him. Pamuk is a translator; like many Istanbullus, he cannot help but look to the West, but he will always return to the East, to Istanbul....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79337888">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to be honest: I didn't finish this one. I really wanted to. I tried to. I renewed it several times and incurred some late fees in the process. I took it on the bus and read it in bed. I used all my tricks for finishing books I just don't click with and none of them worked. I really hate leavi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78650315">more...</a>]]></body>
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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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    <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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    <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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    <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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  <date_added>Thu Feb 05 09:33:54 -0800 2009</date_added>
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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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    <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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    <body><![CDATA[it learn us about swaim thought in diffrent people]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very brief comment for the time being: This book goes beyond a â€śMemoriesâ€ť and a tale of City with maybe a double history, with her many cultural/political shades.<br/>Orhanâ€™s sincerity in his either picturesque personal expressions and/or of the city he grows up in itsâ€™ drastic changes in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54907416">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pamuk writes about his everyday life as a child and young person in Istanbul, Turkey. I like it that in his writing he infuses a healthy amount of himself (as narrator), so that the stories he tells do not revolve around himself all the time, but we are still aware that he is the storyteller. (compa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54444280">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[can only imagine people loving this or hating it, and further still at a certain point of life you might love it and then hate reading it later. Apparently for knowing it Istanbul represents a place with tremendous weight of melancholy present secondary to its background and place in history. the au...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79951530">more...</a>]]></body>
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