What are you reading right now?

clementine · 12-05-2010, 07:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Zarko

The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster

Already finished City of Glass. I loved the mystery within a mystery setting (A detective story, what else), and the existentialism is interesting, but felt writing yourself into a story is a bit of a wank

I'm reading it now too, I've almost finished City of Glass and I really liked it, he's got a very interesting narrative, I found really interesting all the little details, though what I like best about it is all the quoting other texts and adding all that information that made me want to look it up and read more about the whole thing, I like being motivated to investigate about something by a book!

Zarko · 12-07-2010, 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by clementine

I'm reading it now too, I've almost finished City of Glass and I really liked it, he's got a very interesting narrative, I found really interesting all the little details, though what I like best about it is all the quoting other texts and adding all that information that made me want to look it up and read more about the whole thing, I like being motivated to investigate about something by a book!

A good way to put it.

Just finished Ghosts and The Locked Room and I definitely prefered those two over City of Glass. Expertly crafted grouping, though the third one has a few too many references to the previous books, despite being totally independant from them (Though that is up to interpretation I suppose)