It should not be so hard to write both poetry and fiction. Both arts, after all, make use of the same materials, words and punctuation. Poems...
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I can't believe I let this book sit on my shelf unread for so many years. Ok, maybe its length is intimidating. And to be honest, I am only halfway through. But what a great read on so many levels: journalism, history, and literature. I am marking passages worth coming back to, and am finding them throughout.
Pamuk's Snow manages to both make literary art and address the contemporary issue of fundamentalism and terrorism, and the reaction to it by secular society. For all of that, it is a very individual story, and you feel yourself drawn into it in a very intimate way.
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Tom Hudak, September 20, 2011
I can't believe I let this book sit on my shelf unread for so many years. Ok, maybe its length is intimidating. And to be honest, I am only halfway through. But what a great read on so many levels: journalism, history, and literature. I am marking passages worth coming back to, and am finding them throughout.Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Tom Hudak, January 3, 2010
Pamuk's Snow manages to both make literary art and address the contemporary issue of fundamentalism and terrorism, and the reaction to it by secular society. For all of that, it is a very individual story, and you feel yourself drawn into it in a very intimate way.(1 of 2 readers found this comment helpful)