Have u ever read Orhan Pamuk or Elif Shafak's books like snow,my name is red and the sufi?

Answer 1

I tried to read an Orhan Pamuk book but gave up - there was something absolutely leaden about it. A pity because once I lived in Istanbul and I looked forward to a novel set there (Barbara Nadel is incredibly inaccurate). He's grossly overrated.
I studied English at Cambridge University and later I spent five years in Istanbul, where I learnt Turkish. If that's not enough cred for Sterz, where does he expect to find it?

Answer 2

I have read "Snow" and "My Name is Red"; and I can't understand why some people here did bash the latter. It is understandable if even an "arts major" (now that's a badge that gives you a lot of street cred!) finds Pamuk difficult to read, but those books are no DanKoontzHarryPotterDanBrown McDonald literature and consequently need the reader to seriously engage with them.
As Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (one of the wittiest heads of the 18th century) once famously remarked: "When a book and a head collide and the result is a hollow sound - is it always the book that is to blame then?"

Answer 3

yes, i've read 'my name is red'. couldn't stand it. it captured me for awhile because it was so dense. but after about half i decided that it was too self-important, didn't really have as much to say as it pretended to, and i got tired of the phallic obsession. this is coming from an art major, by the way, and art is an enormous part of the book, if not almost the entire topic; i really tried to like it. didn't. i didn't really even learn very much about that type of art, which might have been a nice side effect. i gave the book away, and would not recommend the author to anyone.

Answer 4

No, sorry, but I'll recommend them to someone.

Answer 5

NO