Anyone started it?

I'm about fifteen pages in. Am finding all the characters quite confusing actually, I keep forgetting who is who. For the first few pages he seems to have introduced us to an awful lot of people instead of the usual piece-meal approach which I have to say I find more manageable.

A link to Amazon's used copies of The Black Book

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/057122525X/sr=8-1/qid=1165857900/ref=pd_ka_1/203-8852716-8329512?ie=UTF8&s=gateway

Five cheers for Dave

Let's all thanks Dave for the great blog.

I notice the careful choice of background to reflect the look of old parchment - nice touch!

Article about Orhan Pamuk

For anyone who is interested in getting a bit of background on the author, here is an article from the Guardian written by the translator of the 2006 edition of The Black Book.

http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1921246,00.html

Book Group Blog

Hi everyone. I have set up this blog to allow anyone to post/comment in-between book group meetings. I have sent invites to 5 of you to allow you to 'author' the blog. I need to get everyone else's email addresses though.