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My Name Is Red

Orhan Pamuk

Start date: June 15, 2009

Finish date: June 15, 2009

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Jul 08, 2009 Dree rated it liked it

Shelves: in-translation, continental-europe, 2009-reads, 1000-guardian-read

A hard book to read, though I didn't give up. This book is certainly interesting--and I think I would have found it a lot more interesting if I knew anything at all about pre-1700 Turkish history, literature, or Islamic art. When the Mongols are occasionally brought up in discussing the history of the Islamic lands, I found it much easier to read, as that is a history I studied. I certainly feel like I learned A LOT about something I knew nothing about before. I just hope that part wasn't fictio ...more

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Apr 16, 2008 Fajar rated it it was ok

A little bit disappointing for a Nobel Prize winner really. Oh, yes it was well-researched, but doesn't have a good pace necessary for a thriller, but too shallow for a drama.

Then again, probably it's the literature's world version of the-now-popular movie genre : crime drama. I still itch for more fascination from a crime story, though. My best guess would be there's something lost in translation as I read it in English.

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Sep 30, 2011 Laura rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, read-2013, historical-fiction, bookmooch, mtbr-challenge-2013, turkey

Just arrived from UK through BM.

Even if I have loved Snow, I must confess this was not an easy reading.

In my opinion, the best review by this book can be found here: Ohadi's Review.

4* Snow
2* My Name is Red
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