Paul Auster

[ions]

Making a trip into Toronto where the book selection is much higher. I plan on picking up an Auster. I've already read Oracle Night and own The New York Trilogies. Which should I pick up?

 

[Stewart]

Perhaps this summary might help you decide.

 

[Flowerdk4]

I have read Paul Auster´s latest book "Travels in the Scriptorium". It has been published here in Denmark before anywhere else, but it should get to the rest of the world in a couple of months.

Its great! Its not like any other Auster novel but then again nobody could write this kind of book, like Auster.

I wont say much more besides it would be a good idea if you know the characters in his earlier books before reading this one.

Flower

 

[Wintergreen]

I've only read The New York Trilogy, and hated it with a passion I had hitherto reserved for The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers (and that was only because I had to study it in school). I hated the contrived plots, the wafer-thin characters and the meaningless situations. Are all his books like this? I'd like to give Auster another chance sometime, but not if everything he's written is in this vein.

 

[dude]

I've read The Brooklyn Follies, In the Country of Last Things and The Book of Illusions and I'm totally sold on Auster. What a fantastic writer. I can't wait to get to all of his other books.

 

[hyraxia]

I recently read City of Glass and wasn't really that impressed - should I read the next two books in the trilogy?

 

[nickupton]

No one seems tto have mentioned "Mr Vertigo". I love that book.