I am so bleeding discouraged by the novels I’ve been reading here in Turkey; they just can’t hold me like a good, to-the-point blog post can. Granted, I brought only what I thought were “classics” from a used bookstore. I got through a minor Margaret Drabble, slogged through Indiana by George Sand, am now in the midst of Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (the other Carrie story, Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser, is devastating, this one is just annoying).
Have been trying to finish Snow by Orhan Pamuk for months. The novel is maddening, and I haven’t met a single person who could finish it. You already know the writer/Pamuk will be assassinated, you had the climatic massacre in the theater in the first half of the book--basically there are no surprises because this is such a self conscious novel he tells you everything before in occurs. Except--now I find out he loses the love of his life due to jealousy he feels toward her previous lover??? No, a writer can’t compare with a sexy blue-eyed revolutionary, but just take what you can get, Sad-Sack! And this was the Nobel Prize getter. Jeesh!
Two consolations:
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. Wonderful. Check out the BBC miniseries for one of THE most beautiful men on the planet.
And Harry Potter IV, a few pages each night with Kid.01.
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too funny, i got stuck on Snow shortly after the massacre. I somehow feel like I have to finish it, will let you know if I do.
love
Lidia
Well, my aunt just wrote me that she did indeed finish it, but with gritted teeth. I told her to give My Name is Red a try...
How is Bulgaria? I hope to see you soon.
XOXO
Hi Kloe, I'm sure you must have noticed that you're a celebrity now (check out IHT's website today). Just wanted to check with what you do on your blog, and I think it's fun and you're cool. BTW, I liked the Orhan Pamuk bit, and my personal opinion is, no amount of hardwork is going to get you to understand his novels. And don't ever think it's you or something's wrong with the translation, for quite a few Turks have the same problem as well. Sometimes I tend to think he never actually meant to publish his stuff. His first bits were better I believe("Beyaz Kale" is OK, a bit Amin Maaloufish)
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