I just can´t get through a Pamuk book... the writing-style doesn´t match my reading-style I guess.

Same for me.

maybe it is a little hard to understand his style, but after 1-2 books all becomes easy - my point of view

I understand it, it´s just not my taste. I like to read a book for my pleasure. If going through it seems like a battle, I don´t want to read it anymore "My name is Red" was on the list of my book club, but didn´t even finish it yet. I put it somewhere in a corner and just waited for the next book to come along

Me too - maybe they lose a lot in translation (I did manage to finish Kar though)

sorry LIR but I know a kid (friend of my 17 y old daughter) who managed to read it in less than a week (and they follow a mathematical  -  informathics profile at highschool)

Did I say how long it took me???    (and what´s an informathics profile????)

their basic activity is not literature (and still she`s only 17 y old)

I couldn´t really get through watching Benjamin Button either. This doesn´t mean the movie was highly intellectual or something. I just found it a good story, but a bit of a drag at points. I feel the same about Pamuk books. I just get the feeling I want to fast forward through a few bits. The problem is that I can´t do that in books

-THE METAMORPHOSİS - DEĞİŞİM

By Franz KAFKA

The story begins with a traveling salesman,  waking to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect.Kafka is the one of the best writers of the 20th century.

-THE STRANGER  (THE OUTSIDER),   L’  ETRANGER - YABANCI

By Albert CAMUS

The title character is Meursault, an Algerian who seemingly irrationally kills an Arab man whom he recognises in French Algiers. Meursault shoots an Arab for no reason.Camus theme and outlook are often cited as examples of existentialism,  though Camus did not consider himself an existentialist like J.P.Sartre.

Good novels

THE TOP 50 BOOKS OF ALL TİME

THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS (NOVEL, STORY, PLAY, POETRY, ESSAY) FOR YOUR HOME LIBRARY

1-Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Russia

2-Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, france

3-War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Russia

4-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, United States

5-Hamlet by William Shakespeare, England

6-Selected Poems by William Shakespeare, England

7-Selected Stories by Anton P.Chekhov, Russia

8-Selected Stories by Sait Faik, Türkiye

9-The Stranger by Albert Camus, France

10-The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Czechoslovakia

11-Selected stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe, United States

12-Ulyses by James Joyce, Ireland

13-War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Russia

14-Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Russia

15-The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol, Russia

16-Gone With the Wind by Ernest Hemingway, United States

17-The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, United States

18-Animal Firm by George Orwell, England

19-Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, France

20-The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, United States

21-In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck, United States

22-Trilogy, Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett, Ireland

23-The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, United States

24-The Wall –Le mur - by Jean-Paul Sartre, France

25-Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Russia

26-The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor M.Dostoyevsky, Russia

27-Crime and Punishment by Fyodor M.Dostoyevsky, Russia

28-Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain

29-Essays by Michel de Montaigne, France

30-Guliver Travels by Jonathan Swift, Ireland

31-Victoria by Knut Hamsun, Norway

32-Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, France

33-One Hundred years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Maquez, Colombia

34-Codin by Panait Istrati, Romania

35-The Ports of the Levant by Amin Maalouf,  Lebanon

36-Ağrıdağı Efsanesi (The Ararat Legend) by Yaşar Kemal, Türkiye

37-Aylak Adam (The Loiterer) by Yusuf Atılgan, Türkiye

38-İlköğretmen- The Primary Teacher by Cengiz Aymatov, Kyrgyzstan

39-The Waste Land by T.S.Eliot, United States

40-Selected stories by Maxim Gorky, Russia

41- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Germany

42- Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, france

43- Adolphe by Benjamin Constant, Switzerland

44- Herzog by Saul Bellow, Canada

45- An American tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, United States

46- Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, United States

47- Timbuktu by  Paul Auster, United States

48- The Waves by Viginia Wolf, England

49- Oil  by Upton Sinclair, United States

50- The Power and the Glory by  Graham Green, England                                                                                                  

Enjoy your readings