A review by misslezlee
Музей невинности by Orhan Pamuk, Орхан Памук

2.0

A friend of mine once commented that the English Patient was, " Alright if you enjoyed reading about rich people's infidelities." Well ditto, except this is about rich Turkish people's infidelities. The protagonist is a mentally ill jerk who ruins two women's lives and then compiles a museum to commemorate his "love". He has the time and money to run around Istanbul, later the world, feeding his obsession. Very voyeuristic - some parts made me feel a little bit queasy. Still, I struggled through the book, hoping that the next page would reveal something more than another episode, longingly retold in all its glorious detail, of what happened when he spent another evening watching TV with the woman he couldn't have. And then I'd read so much of this catalog that it seemed silly not to find out what really did happen. I'm not telling. You'll have to relive a rich, mentally ill, Turkish man's thirty year obsession to find out for yourself.