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What book are you reading now?
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 08:48 pm |
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I think you can tell a little about someone by the books they read. Are you academic? Or are you fluff? Or are you both?
The Great War for Civilisation
Robert Fisk
A very dear friend of mine from TC suggested this book and I'm grateful to her.
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 09:06 pm |
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If you judge me by the books I read, I'm very fluff. (And proud of it too  )
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 09:37 pm |
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Depends what you call "fluff". My current read is "Istanbul Memories of a City by Orhan Pamuk and it is heavy going, although I am enjoying it, just taking me a long time. Some would call that shite!
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 10:00 pm |
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Quoting libralady: Depends what you call "fluff". My current read is "Istanbul Memories of a City by Orhan Pamuk and it is heavy going, although I am enjoying it, just taking me a long time. Some would call that shite! |
I read it too, in about 8 hours from Ankara to İzmir in the car because I couldnt put it away. It was indeed great, but veyr different from the other things I read from him.
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 10:24 pm |
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Quoting Deli_kizin: Quoting libralady: "Istanbul Memories of a City by Orhan Pamuk |
I read it too, in about 8 hours from Ankara to İzmir in the car because I couldnt put it away. It was indeed great, but veyr different from the other things I read from him. |
8 hours!!? 
Well, I started reading it too, but I haven't finished it (yet). This kind of book is impossible for me to read for hours and hours, I found it on the verge of being a bit boring and too slow sometimes.
To my taste it's the kind of book to read a chapter now and then, all in all I do like it, but not all in one go..
But everyone to his own of course 
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 10:34 pm |
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Quoting Elisa:
8 hours!!?
Well, I started reading it too, but I haven't finished it (yet). This kind of book is impossible for me to read for hours and hours, I found it on the verge of being a bit boring and too slow sometimes.
To my taste it's the kind of book to read a chapter now and then, all in all I do like it, but not all in one go..
But everyone to his own of course
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Haha Yes I found it a bit boring and too slow sometimes too, which is exactly the opposite of my 'previous experience' with his books! They were everything but boring, very fascinating actually!
But I might want to add I was doing erverything not to notice we were driving on ice.. :-S
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12 Mar 2007 Mon 11:04 pm |
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Quoting Deli_kizin: But I might want to add I was doing erverything not to notice we were driving on ice.. :-S |
Hmm, I wonder what the author would think about your motivation.. 
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13 Mar 2007 Tue 10:31 am |
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John Freely - Istanbul: The Imperial City
Lots of facts and figures, don't use it as a travel guide cause you will be quite disappointed..
But it is a great read indeed if you've been to and know the city a bit, because then you can recognize the places about which the author writes.
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13 Mar 2007 Tue 11:17 am |
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Quoting Deli_kizin: Quoting libralady: Depends what you call "fluff". My current read is "Istanbul Memories of a City by Orhan Pamuk and it is heavy going, although I am enjoying it, just taking me a long time. Some would call that shite! |
I read it too, in about 8 hours from Ankara to İzmir in the car because I couldnt put it away. It was indeed great, but veyr different from the other things I read from him. |
Uhmm!! Better pull my finger out - if I am going to get it finished in 8 MONTHS  I have a book about Cuba waiting in the wings - nearly too much to resist.
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14 Mar 2007 Wed 06:42 am |
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For work I'm reading "Proving the Value of HR - How and Why to Measure ROI" .. yawn
For pleasure: "No Touch Monkey (and Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late)"
And my ever present copy of the latest issue of People Magazine
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