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Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy: City of Glass/ Ghosts/ the Locked Room

Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy: City of Glass/ Ghosts/ the Locked Room

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Intriguing as mysteries, more intriguing as metafiction?

by Stephen_Murray Stephen_Murray is a Top Reviewer on Epinions in Books, Epinions Most Popular Authors - Top 100, Nov 04 '00
Pros: Style
Cons: I nearly bogged down in reading Ghosts
The novels that make up Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy are notable for their brevity, inclusion of relatively extraneous material, and chronicling the main character’s disintegration. In each of the three, the detector (a mystery writer enrolled...
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Unreal city

by jordan_tar , May 20 '03
Pros: Brilliant and haunting
Cons: Depressing
Where do I begin to describe "The New York Trilogy"? It's one of the most depressing books I've ever read; it's utterly nihilistic in its refusal to offer solutions to its own mysteries - the mysteries of the relation between book and writer. Firmly...
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Climb into Auster's web

by azumpano , Mar 04 '00
Pros: Puts the "can't" in "can't put it down"
Cons: Can be a little confusing at times
This is a set of three short novels. Or perhaps one novel with three sections. The three novels may be related. The three novels may not be related.

This is what you're getting into when you read Paul Auster. Many of his stories deal with...
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NY Trilogy is...

by JimmySols , Nov 19 '00
Pros: interesting, mysterious
Cons: confusing
It is hard to say much about Auster's New York trilogy. I couldn't divulge the details of the plots if I wanted to. I read the first one when I was pretty young, so I didn't really understand. I thought all books had to have crystal clear plots and...
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