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My Name Is Red
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Start date
September 22, 2012
Finish date
October 1, 2012
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Tartışmalar - Discussions
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Ugur
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This book is selected as the third book in the poll. September 2012 poll…more

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Gulen
Zor bu kitabı okumak; zorluk kitabın dilinden dolayı değil; konusundan dolayı aslında. Tüm kitap boyunca nakkaş hakkında bilgi üzerine bilgi öğrenirken; en başta ilginç gelen meclis betimlemeleri sürekli tekrarlarken ( hüsrevin ağaçtaki resmine aşık olan şirin) hele bir de iki ana karakterden hiç hoşlanmadıysan; kitabı okumak eziyet olabilir.

Ancak; günümüzde hiç ehemmiyet taşımaya bir hususta kederlenen nakkaşları, onların bu konudaki hüznü ve korkularını, bu sebeple yaptıklarını o kadar güzel a
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Erkin Unlu
2.5'tan 3. Bitirmek için kendimi gebertiyordum az daha.

Kitabı iki soruyla özetleyebilirim:
1 - Katil kim?
2 - Şeküre ile kim yatağa girecek?

Kitaptaki cinayet konusu inanılmaz sıkıcı, Osmanlı'da 16.yy'da başlayıp biten nakkaşlık mesleğini anlatıyor. Nakkaşların aralarındaki tartışmalar falan aşırı bayıcı, hep aynı hikayeler aynı göndermeler vs. (Biraz biz programcıların hangi dil hangi üslup daha iyi tartışmalarına benzettiğim için ürktüm de biraz). 16.yy'ı 1990 İstanbul ağzıyla konuşturunca bira
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Bulent Erdemir
Aug 14, 2018 rated it liked it
I picked this book because of the author's Nobel Price for Literature he won in 2006 and his comments for this book being the most cheerful of his novels. However, frankly speaking, it took me more than a year to finish reading it. I have to admit I'm not a fast reader, however, the complexity of the writing style, the depth of information/story used in the the scenes, memories, events, etc. made me want to stop reading many times. It was both sort of painful to read and enjoyable to understand ...more
Rıfat
Nov 08, 2015 rated it it was amazing
Amazing!
Saeedeh
Feb 29, 2016 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
From the begining of the story I was just searching for the murderer
there were a lot of names on my mind but to my surprize the murderer was the other name.
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