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I'm not sure really how I feel about this book. It start out pretty well, then it seemed to be a slog in the middle, but the ending was good. An Italian scholar, traveling from Venice was captured by the Turks, and forced into slavery. The scholar tried to convince his captors that he was worth treating well because he had some medical and scientific knowledge. A Turkish man of science wanted the scholar as his slave, to teach him everything he knew. The scholar and the scientist looked alike en
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This one was far too cerebral for my tastes, I'm afraid. Although I'm generally tolerant of books that gradually develop or are slow moving, this one stretched my patience. The real problem was that I felt no real sense of either of the two main characters. Pamuk seemed far more interested in exploring philosophical themes than in actually telling the story.
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