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[bookelfe]

I expected to love Orhan Pamuk's The New Life, given how much I enjoyed My Name is Red and The White Castle, and the fact that the plot summary I saw basically consisted of "a dude reads a book. It transforms his life and sends him on wild adventures as he tries to enter the world of the book

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[schiarire]

Aw crap! I haven't read The New Life, but I've read Other Colours and Istanbul ... I think you're still ahead! Nooo!

[schiarire]

Also, your report saddens but does not surprise me. :(

[bookelfe]

\o/!

(It is easy to catch up though, two out of the three I have read are quite short . . .)

I think you would probably like The New Life a bit more than I did? I feel like you have more of a head in general for extended allegory. The stuff with The Girl is irritating regardless though. How was Istanbul?

[schiarire]

I don't know about that! I react very badly to cleverness sometimes. It's hard to explain when or why, though.

Istanbul ... was weird ... I think because I had this idea from somewhere that Pamuk was kindly and childlike and then it turned out he had a cruel, intelligent mind and I went D:

I liked some of it and some of it I didn't. I liked Other Colours better.

[bookelfe]

I don't know if I would describe The New Life as clever exactly . . . I don't know how I would describe it elsewise either though! Except for, um, 'weird'.

Kindly and childlike does not describe Orhan Pamuk very well, no. D:

[schiarire]

I am scared of Orhan Pamuk

[bookelfe]

Probably he will not come and cut you in your sleep.

PROBABLY.

[schiarire]

WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT TO ME

[bookelfe]

TERROR SHARED IS TERROR HALVED