What are you reading?

Question

Having finished the book I'm reading, I need ideas. What are you reading these days? Would you recommend it?

Hi, Tanju! I've read an İlber Ortaylı book, Osmanlıyı Yeniden Keşfetmek. It's a very interesting book, and of course you feel the depth of Ortaylı's knowledge in every page.

I'm also struggling to finish Mehmet Murat Somer's Jigolo Cinayetleri. I've read and liked other books of the Hop Çiki Ya Ya serie, but somehow this book is dragging me down.

I have started 5.Sanattan 5.Kola: Orham Pamuk, but it is not a book to be finished overnight. I have to find something until my new Terry Pratchett books arrive from amazon.co.uk.

Answer 1

I am reading "Secrets of the Gem Trade" so that is work, not pleasure.
I just finished, "The Plot Against America," by Philip Roth, and "Saving Fish From Drowning" By Amy Tan.
I whole heartily recommend to anyone who hasn't read it, "Everything Is Illuminated," by Johnathan Safran Foer it is hysterical and very sensitive.

Answer 2

I just finished "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature), "The Namesake" and "The Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri (Pulitzer Prize winner). I generally read three or more books at the same time....

Also reading some psych and philo stuff which I can share if you're interested in that sort of thing.

Answer 3

From Third World to First by Lee Kwan Yew. It's something I've read two years ago but owing to several feature documentaries about Singapore on cable, it's renewed my interest about this fascinating man who I consider a "benevolent dictator".

Answer 4

I just finished "Twice a stranger" by Bruce Clark
Check it out on the Amazon.co.uk

A genuine and factual book about Turks, Greeks and the minorities they expelled.

Answer 5

Pharaoh's personal Physician

it is called Ce no he.

i could not find it in English so i am reading it in Farsi, it is such a fascinating book,
how the Dr. Ce no he became the Pharaoh's personal Physician, how he hated the monks back then. during one of his travels he end up in city that they used hot and cold water
separately, he was very surprised when he saw lavatory. when he was a student, he hated the way the monks controlling everything.
his shock and uhhh when he saw first dead body and how they where going to mummify it.
he learned how not to open his mouth when he realize that
Pharaoh had epilepsy disease. they would of buried him alive, so being dr he treated Pharaoh with herbal things.

this Dr. was the first dr that had done brain surgery. (imagine that back then).

and they way he vengeance his lover, how almost she destroyed his life and reputation.

i suggest every one should read this book.

Answer 6

I'm reading Vanity Fair by William (forgot his last name), and the book sucks. The only reason I'm reading it is because I finished reading all the good books I brought over from the U.S. The other books I previously read this summer were, Cats Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (very good), Man without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut (ok), The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (very good), The Wheels of Chance by H.G. Wells (not that great), and my SAT book, which I don't think you'd want to read :-)

Answer 7

Musa'nin Cocuklari by Ergun Poyraz (Everyone should read this book to see the real face of AKP).

After seeing Drat's answer, I can also recommend you Middlesex its a great book.

Answer 8

Jan Guillou - Madame Terror

Awesome book, the author isent really pro America though.

Answer 9

Tolstoy's "War and Peace" the full English version this time and the font size is either 8 or smaller than 8. It hurts my eyes. It's a great book though, I love Prince Andrey <3 =p

Answer 10

I haven't read for a long time actually but my first one on the list is Şahbaba from Murat Bardakçı.

#Kulla, i read that book about 10 years ago,was a sad one.