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... Jessica Anthony
Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides
Gilead / Marilynne Robinson
The museum of innocence / Orhan Pamuk
Snow / Orhan Pamuk
Oryx and Crake : a novel / Margaret Atwood
Never let me go / Kazuo Ishiguro Have been jaunting around the US quite a bit but am finally back in Europe with Snow by Orhan Pamuk. I'm only a couple of pages in, but already the main character is in a bus caught in a blizzard in Turkey. Probably not a good read for me as I'm terrified of the first big snow this year as I ... ... where my next book will take me. I have so many to chose from, but if I just go by what is due next at the library, I have Snow or The Women's Room. ... in bold):
2007 - Doris Lessing: The Golden NotebookThe Habit of LovingThe Fifth Child
2006 - Orhan Pamuk: Snow, My Name is Red
2005 - Harold Pinter: lots of his
2003 - J. M. Coetzee
2001 - V. S. Naipaul: A House for Mr Biswas, India, a Wounded Civilisation
199 ... I've read Snow and enjoyed it. I'd be up to participate in reading another of Pamuk's works. This looks great!!
I will finally make myself finish Snow for Turkey. It's been half-read for about 5 years... I'd be interested to reread My Name is Red in a group setting. I loved Snow but didn't get on very well with My Name is Red, so I'd like to know if it was just a matter of taste or if I was missing something good in the latter.
(edited so that my touchstone won't point to Neal Stephenson) ... about Orhan Pamuk and wondered if anyone would be interested in reading one of his books. Maybe My Name is Red or Snow?
I still want us to read I am a cat at some point.
I am now very much looking forward to Les Miserables. While The Octopus is definitely about an ... I found Snow to be an engrossing novel. It's actually the only book of Orhan Pamuk I've been able to get into. I can still walk the snowy streets of Kars in my mind, noting the Armenian buildings with no Armenians. I've been saying I'm going to read my Pamuk "soon" from the beginning of 2009. The one I own is called Snow - hope it's as "absorbing" as your Pamuk read :) ... of tractors in Ukrainian
13 The Accidental
16 Small island
28 The Successor
30 The namesake on Mount TBR
35 Snow
44 The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay on Mount TBR
61 Dirty Havana trilogy
112 The twins
127 All the pretty horses
133 The Dumas club
192 Of ... You can't really go wrong with any of it, although, as probably a minority opinion, I enjoyed Snow the least. I would recommend starting with The Black Book as a nice companion piece to Istanbul. The New Life is also set in contemporary Turkey. From there, I'd hit the novels set in the ... ... all the following from the 1001 list (and saved $68):
The Bluest Eye
The Ultimate Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Snow
Cat's Cradle
The Handmaid's Tale
The Big Sleep
Rabbit, Run
The Maltese Falcon
Ulysses
Lolita
Crime and Punishment
The Master and Margarita
... re Lost in Translation
This is a great category, I have and would recommend The Shadow of the Wind and Snow. Both are very different, engrossing reads.
I read a lot of translated books, if I can't travel myself, it is a good way to get an insight into other countries and cultures.
Thanks for the welcome!
tloeffler: Yeah, I really couldn't get into Snow. I didn't care about any of the characters and found the story very slow going and somewhat boring. Also, I was listening to an audio version and the reader's accent wasn't working for me. Welcome! You have a very interesting list of books there. I'm glad to see I'm not the only person who gave up on Snow. I really tried, but just couldn't do it. ...
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield ****
The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe ****1/2
Did Not Finish
Snow by Orhan Pamuk (fiction)
A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz (non fiction)
The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks (fantasy)
Fathers and Sons by Ivan T ... ... Ruis Zafón
4. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
5. The Library of Shadows by Mikkel Birkegaard
6. Snow by Orhan Pamuk
7. The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
8. The Book of Murder by Guillermo Martínez
9. I'm Not Scared by Niccolò Ammaniti ... ... page. Only thoughts, images, ideas exist.
Honestly, I think I could use a little more Pamuk in my life. I read Snow, once, about two years ago. This year, I look forward to reading My Name is Red. I'll be sure to let you know what I think...once I do... ... dorrit; life and opinions of tomcat murr; sot-weed factor; brothers karamazov; colossus of maroussi; darkmans; snow; gargantua and pantagruel; the way we live now; an adultery and just about anything anyone else might suggest. I might even prefer reading something I haven't ... I have just finished Snow, a good 9/10 book from the 1001 list. I have moved into the Travel category as the author is tracking his poet friend fom Germany through Turkey to the city of Kars. A wee bit tenuous, but hey! I finished up with Possessing, which was worth a read, despite its dodgy ... ... gave a personal insight into the situation there making it more real than just watching the news.
I am currently reading Snow, a 1001 book, which I am about half way through and am enjoying. I hated The New Life by Orhan Pamuk. One of the few books ever that I could not bring myself to finish. Nothing happens. At all. Oh, except riding a bus while carrying a book and talking about carrying a book while riding a bus.
I also gave up on Elizabeth George's What Came Before He Shot He ... ... For the record, I enjoyed both His Every Kiss and The Marriage Bed.
I am taking a romance break and working on Snow by Orhan Pamuk. It's a little slow, but I am enjoying it. It's difficult reading all the snow symbolism because over here, it is beautiful and sunny. Spring has ... ... and The Red and the Black to more recent stuff like Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day and Orhan Pamuk's Snow). Anyway, it was then that I read my first 'graphic novel', which was Art Spiegelman's Maus. Maus deals with the author's family's experience of the holocaust, and ... ... I will not try to seek them out. I'm glad it was the book for you. :)
And sorry for the rant!
ALL that said, I do have Snow still sitting on my bookshelf. I will read it someday. I've read Love in a Cold Climate. To stay on topic (i.e. love in a cold climate), how about Snow by Orhun Pamuk? ... of Orhan Pamuk, a modern-day Turkish writer ... I've read My name is Red, set in Istanbul in the late 1500s, and Snow, set in modern-day Turkey, and highly recommend both.
Smiler, I checked them out and responded at your profile page. I did feel dumb when I read Pamuk's Snow, but I usually feel brilliant when I read a tough book -- just by getting through it, and understanding 10%!
Back to you, theaelizabet. (May I call you Liz? Those letters are tricky to ... I just gave up on Snow by Orhan Pamuk. I was trying to listen to this in audio, but could not get through it. My mind kept wandering and wanting to do other things than listen. I was really interested in this one since I didn't know anything about Turkey and it got some good reviews. I found it ... ... Levy, 2007
323. Vernon God Little byDBC Pierre, 2006
324. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, 2007
325. Snow by Orhan Pamuk, 2006
326. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, 2006
327. Fall on Your Knees by Anne Marie MacDonald, 2004
328. Remember ... ... the same thing applies to people and dating!
SqueakyChu: thanks for the suggestion. I went back to read some reviews on Snow again and have to admit I’m not exactly taken over by an irresistible urge to read it. Which isn't really much of a problem considering the stacks of books I have ... ... I look forward to reading your comments on it as I have been wondering whether I should get another one of his books and Snow was a strong contender. ... book my undivided attention.
Oh, and since you mentioned Orhan Pamuk, I've never read anything by him but recently bought Snow, which I'll be getting around to reading hopefully in the next month or so. Wish me luck! :D ... just be a nagging hesitation about actually buying the book. I am glad that I can lay that to rest now.
I gave up on Snow by Orhan Pamuk and then I also tried to read My Name is Red by him and gave up on that too. I'm now keeping away from his books. I think his style is just not for me ... >8 - I'm relieved someone else gave up on Snow! I still feel guilty I gave up :-) Snow by Orhan Pamuk is my clunker of the year. Irritating, very slow read and I didn't like the "hero". The worst was that the author told us the end of the hero half-way in the book, and from then on it was no reason to read on. I did finish it, but it took me weeks. ... I had a feeling that just might be it. I can't tell you how many times I've started and restarted his Nobel prize-winner, Snow. You've inspired me to give it another go, and to pick up The New Life.
Thank you! ... reading year. I love your categories, and think Women and War a wonderfully challenging one.
I think I'll borrow Orhan Pamuk's Snow for my Reading Globally category next year. Snow by Nigel Frith
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Frost in May by Antonia White
Cloud Castles by Michael Scott Rohan
Weather of Stars by Neil Spratling
I think I,ve read some works by these authors (some of them long ago):
J.M.G. Le Clezio: Poisson d'or
Orhan Pamuk: Snow, (favorite)
Jose Saramago: Baltasar and Blimunda (favorite)
Naguib Mahfouz: Children of the Alley (favorite)
William Golding: Lord of the Flies (favorite)
Alexand ... My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
The Man with no Name:Elementary Level by Evelyn Davies
The Third Man by Graham Greene
The Third George by Jean Plaidy
The Madness of King George by Alan Bennett Ulysses by James Joyce
Naked by David Sedaris
Snow by Orhan Pahmu
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Inglorious by Joanna Kavenna xmaystarx, I've left you a profile comment about these. Murakami's were gone by the time I got there but Snow was still up so I've requested that. #68's right, lots of the Murakami's are international mooches so maybe they'll come up again. 31 Neige Orhan Pamuk
32 Hotel Iris Yoko Ogawa
33 Extrêmement fort et incroyablement près Jonathan Safran Foer ... by Richard Flanagan is a good read but the story. while engaging, doesn't build any urgency for what comes next. Snow by Orhan Pahmuk hs been most enjoyable but I stopped about of a third of the way through as book group reads were piling up and it is a book that deserves ... Snow by Orhan Pamuk - abandoned. This is the first book for ages which I feel I've failed at, rather than giving up because I didn't like it. There are lots of really good things about the book - I loved the opening, and the descriptions of the remote, snowy city it's set in - but I am just ... Our book club does nothing but graphic novels -- so that's one group that's done neither Snow nor chick lit. We meet at the bookstore where the husband works, so we don't drift off into bar talk right away, although we do sometimes end up there when the discussion goes on too long ;) 4> Our book club read My Name is Red; I think I suggested Snow, Istanbul, and My Name is Red, and the group picked the mystery. I did not find Snow boring. I think, though, that I don't have to rush back to Pamuk.
Robert ... few books that are symptomatic. Einstein is the active read, Infidel is a chapter or two from done--for about a month, Snow is on hold with only a few chapters read, and I only tasted a few pages of Zlata's Diary. And Ella, Minnow, Pea just won't stay on the shelf but is unread. ... categories.
Since my last post I've completed: Strait is the Gate, The House of Mirth, Utilitarianism, and Snow I looked through the book and these additions caught my eye:
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggs by Rilke
Bartleby and co by Enrique Vila-Matas
Spring flowers, snow frost by Kadare
Memoirs of my nervous illness
Sandokan
The namesake by Jhumpa La ... ... Glas ***½
4. Netherlands - The Following Story ***½
5. Argentina - The Invention of Morel ****
6. Turkey - Snow ****
7. Japan - {5/5}
~ a. Norwegian Wood ****
~ b. The Wild Geese ****½
~ c. The Master of Go ****
~ d. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion ***½
~ e. Af ... ... Pamuk now (first The White Castle and then My Name is Red). I really appreciated the range of female characters in Snow. The veil can be used in endless ways, for political or social or economic reasons as well as religious ones.
I also want to add a note about The Open Door by L ... I think the problem with Orhan Pamuk's Snow might be the translation. I remember reading the book through, thinking "That was OK, but I think I missed something," and then, VERY unusual for me, reading it again a couple of months later. I liked it much more the second time. Snow by Orhan Pamuk. I finally got through it, but, ugh. And I really, really wanted to like it. ... was incredibly handy for weeding out a few books I had already read. Anyway, for $4 I came home with the following:
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Winner by David Baldacci
Middle Age: A Romance ... I read Snow last year and it was a real struggle. And I did have the feeling that it was largely due to the clunky translation. Anybody else have that feeling? I had no desire after Snow to read another Pamuk, but maybe if his other books are translated better I will have to give him another ... The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk in Turkish translated into English by Maureen Freely. I read somewhere that this is a new English translation. With Pamuk's writing style, it couldn't have been an easy job, but as one goes along one forgets very quickly that this was not even written in english.
... ... about it for the Reading Globally March Theme Read on Haiti.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is pulling me in while Snow is partially read, but rolling around in my head. Given that my owned TBR is in the hundreds and my wanna-read-don't own is several hundred, I do have choices! Time ... ... by Naguib Mahfouz give insight to Egyptian life, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseini works well for Afghanistan, and Snow by Orhan Pamuk works well for Turkey. ... authors versus gorging on them! (I must be hungry). I have two more Ursula Hegi novels on my TBR pile.
I have read Snow , My Name is Red, and Istanbul by Pamuk. I recently finished The Black Book and think that you will not be disappointed. A friend of mine and I call him "our Or ... I have read 2 Pamuks now: My Name is Red and Snow. I thought they were both good, but he has a strange writing style which is a bit dreamlike and one-paced. Both books felt a bit floaty to me ( I don't really know what this means either, but it seems to fit). I actually thought the style suited ... I'm in Turkey with Snow by Orhan Pamuk. Next up will be a trip to Jerusalem with Joseph B. Glass' Sephardi Entrepreneurs in Jerusalem. It's been sitting for a while as I've been away since 1/18. ... course of things, begin to erode -- "
Or, it becomes an emblem of nationalistic pride, as depicted in Orhan Pamuk's Snow. One can never tell. ... of emotion for rational thought.
Makifat: read Fathers and Sons and draw your own conclusions.
BGP: read Snow, a re-working of Turgenev's Smoke - very interesting parallels, there. Read some excellent things in 2007-- Orhan Pamuk was probably my favorite find (Snow and The Black Book) are now two of my favorites.
Jose Saramago's The Stone Raft was also brilliant.
There are probably a few I'm forgetting... ... in my TBR pile. Looks like I will need to get My Father's Rifle, in any case -- might be a good companion to reading of Orhan Pamuk?
... is definitely moving up a few places in the TBR pile, and now I understand your question about the pursuit of happiness in Snow -- clearly comparing to the Dalai Lama's, right? Finally, I also think Possession is outstanding. I have read it twice now, and it was surely my #1 book for its ... # 36 Snow by Orhan Pamuk (November-December): This much-praised work by the Turkish winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is a dense, challenging work, not so much for its language as for its meaning. It tells the story of the fictional Turkish poet Ka who, after being exiled for twelve ... Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Cold Terror by Stewart Bell
Cold Dark Matter by Alex Brett
Icefields by Thomas Wharton
Coming Out of the Ice by Victor Herman Snow by Orhan Pamuk ... about 'not a proper noun' (which means not the name of a person or place). So no points for 'Rebecca', 'Tigana', etc.
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Credo by Melvyn Bragg
Complicity by Iain Banks
Thud! by Terry Pratchett
Transfigurations by Michael Bishop I'd be up for a Pamuk at some point, though I expect a lot of folks have already read some, especially Snow and My Name is Red (though I haven't read Snow, probably his most popular book). Might be best to choose one of his others, like The white castle for a future read. In 2006, it was Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk (Snow is a fabulous book!). Since he was chosen on October 12 of last year, I'm not aware of any winner yet for this year. Snow by Orhan Pamuk and Smoke by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev.
I think these are intentional twins, on the part of Pamuk. Turkey faces now what Russia did then: a crisis of identity and an expressed (official) desire to be part of Europe.
I love when authors talk to each other, across ... ... oughs
The Shadow Man by Mary Gordon
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stengner
Four Souls by Louise Erdrich
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
A Sporting Chance by Daniel P. Mannix ... women living in an arabic society, and their engagement (or otherwise) with the values they found all around them. Finally, Snow by Orhan Pamuk addressed issues of women and political islam in modern day Turkey, and gave an interesting perspective on the debate concerning religious dress (inc ... ... to
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Cod by Mark Kurlansky
Finn which is a novel about Huckleberry's dad, by Jon Clinch
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Pearl by Mary Gordon
Self which Yann Martel wrote before Life of Pi
Love by Toni Morrison ... work my way through them before I buy more, but my husband doesn't believe me...
Absolute Surrender by Andrew Murray
Snow by Calvin Miller
Until They Bring the Streetcars Back by Stanley Gordon West
The Edge of the Crazies by Jamie Harrison
Blue Deer Thaw by Jamie Harrison
An Un ... ... Johnston
Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh
Summer Gone by David Macfarlane
Last Orders by Graham Swift
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards and
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Snow by Nigel Frith
Fog by James Herbert
Crow by Ted Hughes
Enthusiasm by Ronald Knox
Has anyone here read Orhan Pamuk's Snow? If so, do you think, like I do, that it is a clever re-telling of Turgenev's Smoke? Turgenev's charms are less apparent than many of his countrymen - he lack's Dostoevsky's angst, Tolstoy's robustness, Gogol's sly humor - but he ages well. As I re-read ... Cod
Alligator
Giraffe
Beasts
Awakening
Restlessness
Fury
Wicked
Cocksure
Snow
Seeing
Blindness
Away
Rerun
Distance
Reconciliation
Unstolen
Intimacy
Limitations
Rockbound
Faithful
Couples
Sideways
Self
Housekeeping
Call ... Just finished Snow, by Orhan Pamuk, which I ended up enjoying after the first rather boring 250 pages. Was quite amazing, however, in the end. Now I am starting something much lighter--a memoir called The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls. This was our book group selection earlier in the ... ... wouldn't want to get on your clothing or fabric:
A Spot of Bother
A Black Mark
The Human Stain
Fire and Ice
Snow #6 depressaholic Would like your opinion on Snow because I started it and gave up. I notice that SqueakyChu loved it.
I'm in Scotland in the midst of a Never-Let-Me-Go mutant type situation : Under the Skin by Michel Faber. I am in Kars in Eastern Turkey (and occassionally in Frankfurt, Germany) with Orhan Pamuk's Snow. ... East. I often find that fiction is more realistic than the news. Such novels as The Kite Runner about Afghanistan, Snow about Turkey, and Dancing Arabs about Israeli Arabs are most enlightening besides being absolutely terrific reads. If you find yourself wanting to learn more about ... another one is orhan pamuk's snow. the central character is a poet who writes a poem called 'snow' and later gathers a collection of poems to be published under the same title. ... by thomas keneally
4. drachenläufer (kite runner) by Khaled Hosseini
5. paddy clarke by roddy doyle
6. schnee (snow) by orhan pamuk
7. midnight's children by salman rushdie
8. bildnis eines unsichtbaren by hans pleschinski
9. the blind assassin by marga ... Either Snow or My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk.
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
And I guess it was published too late in 2006 to make the list: The Road by Cormac McCarthy ... Ender's Shadow part of the series about four years ago. I'm a big fan of Orson Scott Card.
Right now, I've got Snow waiting for me, but I'm considering The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan as my next BIG read.
I just started using LT this past week and am happy to find ... Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Cold Terror by Stewart Bell
Cold Dark Matter by Alex Brett
Fire and Ice by Michael Adams
The Navigator of New York by Wayne Johnston which is about the race to be the first person to reach the North Pole. I just finished reading My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk. I have liked all the other books by Pamuk -(my favourite is Snow) I had trouble getting through this one although I liked the structure.
next up Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood. ... a truer picture of life there than nonfiction. Books such as Dancing Arabs by Sayed Kashua (an Israeli Arab) or Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Turkish) are intriguing novels which present more than one side of a political issue.
The way I pick books in my library is this. I always start ... Most recently? Snow by Orhan Pamuk.
I also like Snow Falling on Cedars as well as Smilla's Sense of Snow. ... because she lives in France!). So...which continent is that? Asia or Europe?
I can't figure out the continents. (e.. Snow by Orhan Pamuk who is Turkish.) Is Turkey in Europe or in Asia? Wikipedia says it's in Eurasia!!!
By now, you know some of my favorite books though. :-)
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe
The Blind Owl by Sadeq Hedayat ... and culture and you've given me some great places to start.
By the way was wondering if you or others here have read Snow by Orhan Pamuk? I am a few chapters into it, the first work of his I've read, and I'm very impressed. (1) The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
(2) Snow by Orhan Pamuk
(3) Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami SOOOO uh....which Orhan Pamuk did we decide on?
My Name Is Red or Snow When I went to Amazon to check them out the plot for My Name is Red really appealed, however, I like guidlines so Snow is winning me over a bit. When I checked out The Borzoi Reader, I got so excited, I had to leave-they all look good! Chapter by chapter is an interesting thought!
I went searching for discussion questions and found more for Snow
Snow-Farber & Farber Book Discussion PDF
SqueakyChu in Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction : Group Reads, BookRings & BookRays (okt 5, 2006, 10:06pm) Ah!!!!!! Snow. Just finished it myself and simply loved it. Just started Snow by Orhan Pamuk. It will be the first novel I've read by this author.
P.S. A Bookcrosser sent this book to me in the U.S. all the way from Tehran!!! Just read the first chapter of Snow by Orhan Pamuk. The atmosphere has dragged me in already but in my copy I have already found editing errors such as doubled words.
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