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Title: Possibly worthy but turgid
Review: I quite agree with all the one star reviews. Really hard work to maintain an interest. Pamuk's themes are now very well known. The endless introspective, arcane comment and reflections on the tensions between the west and the east, freedom and restriction, secularism and the supernatural, islam and christianity etc etc just did not hold me. I suspect that those who gave it 3+ stars felt obliged to run the race to the end because the book promises to enlighten us. The snow metaphor was vey overworked, in the end I felt I couldnt clear anymore from my driveway.
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