A review by nderiley
Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk

1.0

So I picked up this book to read shortly before I actually went to Istanbul in hopes of peaking my interest and perhaps giving me some insight into what I would be seeing. Granted I didn't get *that* far into the book but after arriving in the city and feeling its life and vibrancy I was so turned off by this insistence on the fact that Instanbul is shrouded in some kind of insurmountable sorrow that I had to put the book down.