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| 1. |  | The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts" and "Locked Room" from Faber & Faber Customer Review:  I was looking forward to reading this book once I saw the incredible comments about it: "brilliant", "amazing", "a dazzling achievement", "a new departure for the American novel". But what a waste of money... Not only was the book dull and obvious, but it was also pretentious. Do not expect to find... |
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| 2. |  | City of Glass: The Graphic Novel from Picador Customer Review:  As much as I love the original novel, this version may very well be an improvement. The prose is condensed but very little depth is sacrificed, and the images manage to enrich the work without distracting from its ideas. Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli use film noir as a springboard for... |
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| 3. |  | The Brooklyn Follies from Henry Holt & Company Customer Review: I am a recent fan of Auster and have now read a number of his books. Most are good to excellent, a few are disappointing (Travels In The Scriptorium comes to mind), but Brooklyn Follies is the best so far. |
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| 4. |  | The Book of Illusions from Thorndike Press Customer Review: This is one of the very finest books that I have ever read. It is a stunning achievement, and one does not or cannot walk away from this unmoved. `The Book of Illusions' is an extraordinarily empathetic humanistic novel. Auster writes about identity, love, joy, loss, sadness, and hope. He... |
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| 5. |  | I Thought My Father Was God: And Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project from Picador Customer Review: I don't go for trite. I read Eat, Pray, Love because I was on vacation and had nothing else to read. But this book is full of real stories of the funny little coincidences and experiences that make life interesting. It's like real-life Lake Wobegon. |
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| 6. |  | Timbuktu from Faber & Faber Customer Review:  Having only read one other book by Paul Auster, "In the Country of Last Things", I can't really say how it stacks up against his other writings other than that I like "Timbuktu" better than "Country". They are two entirely different stories and my bias is purely personal. Mr. Bones and his... |
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| 7. |  | In the Country of Last Things from Faber and Faber Customer Review: I've waffled between three and four stars for this book, and I've ultimately decided on very nearly four stars. This was my virgin voyage into the literature of Paul Auster, who came highly recommended as an unfairly overlooked genius in the world of novels. The post-apocalyptic theme of The Country... |
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| 8. |  | Music of Chance from Faber Faber Inc Customer Review:  Having read almost all of Auster's novels, I find that their appeal often lies in the ideas they deal in rather than the plots, which are sometimes less than spectacular. But The Music of Chance is the opposite: a tight little plot, but a concept that, unless I have utterly missed the point, seems... |
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| 9. |  | Oracle Night from Thorndike Press Customer Review: I like stories about writers doing writerly things because even though I know the writer is a character, you get to see the author writing the character who's a writer and is writing, and so gain an insight into that particular author's writing process. You know what I mean. "Oracle Night" is about... |
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| 10. |  | Travels in the Scriptorium from Faber & Faber Customer Review: Paul Auster is one of my favorite writers. Many times, books spanning only one day don't have a proper flow to them but this book has a perfect flow to it. Each page is better then the one before. It's written beautifully and the more I read the more I got sucked into the story. The main... |
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