false 34 242 207 true 5766490 read 2 true 394396 currently-reading 25 true 394395 to-read 6 true 4795193 partially-read 2 true 2358973 want-to-buy 22 false 2320332 favourites <![CDATA[Steve added 'The Kingdom of the Wicked']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52040213 The Kingdom of the Wicked (Paperback) by Anthony Burgess
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]]> <![CDATA[Steve added 'The Major Works']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8434440 The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) by Jonathan Swift
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]]> <![CDATA[Steve added 'The Stone Gods']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76316757 to: The Stone Gods (Paperback) by Jeanette Winterson
]]> <![CDATA[Steve added 'The Black Prince']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23315619 to: The Black Prince (Vintage Classics) by Iris Murdoch
]]> <![CDATA[Steve added 'Nikolai Gogol Plays And Petersburg Tales']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14919704 to: Nikolai Gogol Plays And Petersburg Tales (Paperback) by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
]]> <![CDATA[Steve added 'The Book of Illusions']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52040245 to: The Book of Illusions (Paperback) by Paul Auster
]]> <![CDATA[Steve added 'Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52040282 to: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Paperback) by Oliver W. Sacks
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]]> <![CDATA[new comment from Steve]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/13358-what-are-you-reading-at-the-moment Steve made a comment in the Good Readers of Scotland group:

Currently reading Orhan Pamuk's The Black Book. A man's wife disappears so he starts searching for her in the streets of Istanbul and scouring the newspaper columns written by his cousin (her half-brother who has also disappeared) for clues.

It's not a conventional detective novel (the kind that the protagonist's missing wife used to constantly read) but more an exploration of identity and a compendium of stories about the history of the Turkish city. The protagonist becomes so consumed by his columnist cousin's articles that he gradually assumes his identity, moves into his apartment and writes his columns in his absence.

Some people find Pamuk's books a bit academic and hard going but anybody who like Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino and Borges would probably enjoy him. I've also read My Name Is Red which was great, similar to Eco's The Name Of The Rose. ]]> <![CDATA[Steve is on page 66 of The Black Book ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3031406 Steve is on page 66 of 466 of The Black Book ]]>