by Paul Auster
Adam Walker, student, is invited to the house of lecturer Rudolf Born. Here he meets the seductive and solitary Margot. His relationship to Margot is secondary to an incident that occurs when in the company of Born, something so disturbing that Walker carries it with him for the rest of his life. Th...
I was planning a long, thoughtful, and very thorough review of this. I began a draft the very next morning after completing the audiobook (lying in bed listening to the last little bit and going into denial that it was suddenly over). But then I put it aside and let too much time pass. Gosh darn ...
Dear Reader, I selected to read this in Audio book format. Paul Auster reads his books beautifully (in my opinion) and I can never resist the chance to listen to his hypnotizing voice. I was under the impression that everyone would enjoy his narration just as much, however, I found out that not ev...
What's not to like.. Wonderfully open-ended, multiple narrative perspectives, stories-within-stories, facts blending with fiction, clashing testimonies and a lot of meta-fiction to keep the thinker in me going..A great sample of its metafictive analysis can be found here.I would read it again, just ...
I shook his hand for the first time in the spring of 1967. I was a second-year student at Columbia then, a know-nothing boy with an appetite for books and a belief (or delusion) that one day I would become good enough to call myself a poet, and because I read poetry, I had already met his namesake i...
This book will stay with you for a long time. Adam Walker, a Columbia English student, randomly meets Rudolph Born and his girlfriend Margot at a party. Born makes Adam a job offer to produce a poetry magazine - an amazing coup, for any student. But things seem not quite right and an unexpected ...
I loved this book right up until the last 30 or so pages, then came an ending which left me feeling as though Auster just ran out of time before deadline and threw some random ideas out with the hope that the reader wouldn't notice. Despite the less than perfect ending it still IMHO rated 4*s.
Auster is one our most respected writers, but in the last decade he’s been a little hit or miss. His fans will be back in the fold with this one. It’s an amazing literary psychological thriller that will keep you reading late into the night. Auster’s use of technique is one of his traits, and he doe...
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