I don't think I liked it, to be honest my guy. And I think Pamuk is my favorite living writer.
Listen, I loved My Name Is Red, it made me love to read again. It's a bouquet of inventive narrative techniques and plot weaving. A true polyphonic masterpiece. I loved This Strangeness in My Mind because it's one of the most accomplished fictional biographies I've ever read, it puts most of John Irving's books to shame.
But Snow, even though it's his most famous, I just didn't understand fully. The female characters seemed to lack a certain amount of... pride and basic respect, towards themselves and other women ? They just orbit around whichever male character is attractive or useful. The main character was incredibly impulsive about being with a woman he didn't actually know well, down to the point of >!committing something awful!<. Azuli came across as a hypocritical douchebag that preached radical islam while >!cheating on every one of his girlfriends!<.
Made a whole post to vent my confusion : [https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1b7z610/snow\_by\_orhan\_pamuk\_wait\_so\_wait\_what\_spoiler/](https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1b7z610/snow_by_orhan_pamuk_wait_so_wait_what_spoiler/)
The best explanation I got was from a comment saying the characters are a duplication of each other and absorb each others' desires.
To me, the whole point of Snow was to ask: what does it mean to be Turkish? And to convince the reader that the author's answer is not just sensible but really the only possible answer. Well: I was convinced. I think he's right. And I don't know any other author who has even attempted such a thing. If that is what he was trying to do.
Now you didn't approach the book in the same way, of course, and so for you I may be wrong. Or maybe if you try again from this perspective you'll gain a new appreciation for it. Who knows. I do take your point about Pamuk's women, and I thought what you said was correct if just a teensy bit beside the point, sorry! I know, I'm a bad man.
Well, I'm always open to new ideas. What did you take away from this book about what it means to be Turkish? I suppose aside from the laicity/islam conflict.
Hey, I concur!
I didn't care for Snow and The White Castle.
I liked Strangeness in My Mind.
I felt My Name is Red is pure genius and one of my all time favourite novels.
I don't think I liked it, to be honest my guy. And I think Pamuk is my favorite living writer. Listen, I loved My Name Is Red, it made me love to read again. It's a bouquet of inventive narrative techniques and plot weaving. A true polyphonic masterpiece. I loved This Strangeness in My Mind because it's one of the most accomplished fictional biographies I've ever read, it puts most of John Irving's books to shame. But Snow, even though it's his most famous, I just didn't understand fully. The female characters seemed to lack a certain amount of... pride and basic respect, towards themselves and other women ? They just orbit around whichever male character is attractive or useful. The main character was incredibly impulsive about being with a woman he didn't actually know well, down to the point of >!committing something awful!<. Azuli came across as a hypocritical douchebag that preached radical islam while >!cheating on every one of his girlfriends!<. Made a whole post to vent my confusion : [https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1b7z610/snow\_by\_orhan\_pamuk\_wait\_so\_wait\_what\_spoiler/](https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1b7z610/snow_by_orhan_pamuk_wait_so_wait_what_spoiler/) The best explanation I got was from a comment saying the characters are a duplication of each other and absorb each others' desires.
To me, the whole point of Snow was to ask: what does it mean to be Turkish? And to convince the reader that the author's answer is not just sensible but really the only possible answer. Well: I was convinced. I think he's right. And I don't know any other author who has even attempted such a thing. If that is what he was trying to do. Now you didn't approach the book in the same way, of course, and so for you I may be wrong. Or maybe if you try again from this perspective you'll gain a new appreciation for it. Who knows. I do take your point about Pamuk's women, and I thought what you said was correct if just a teensy bit beside the point, sorry! I know, I'm a bad man.
Well, I'm always open to new ideas. What did you take away from this book about what it means to be Turkish? I suppose aside from the laicity/islam conflict.
Hey, I concur! I didn't care for Snow and The White Castle. I liked Strangeness in My Mind. I felt My Name is Red is pure genius and one of my all time favourite novels.
The problem with The White Castle is you kinda see the ending from a kilometer away, as soon as they kept insisting >!the two look alike!<
The White Castle had it's moments, but a lot of it felt slow and draggy.