This version of the book has been reviewed in English(199), French(2), Portuguese(1), Spanish(1) by readers.
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What are readers saying about The New York Trilogy City Of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room?
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Holger posted a review at 2009-11-15 03:15:34.
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interesting and multilayered.Surreal and unique 
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Brian posted a review at 2009-11-12 12:32:08.
(Language: English)
Stunning and brain-melting. A style that defies rules. The stories are essentially long paragraphs with dialogue rarely interspersed. It's exhausting being in the heads of these characters, but rewarding. Great absurdist fiction.
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Silvina posted a review at 2009-11-04 17:11:26.
(Language: English)
i had to wait to the end...all the characters running rings around me...who are they, who am i, in and out...brillianT
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Koen posted a review at 2009-10-17 14:35:28.
(Language: English)
:o)
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Carina posted a review at 2009-10-09 04:10:01.
(Language: English)
I'm glad I read this. It wasn't as engaging as The Brooklyn Follies, but the stories were craftily written and connected in interesting and surprising ways.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-09-24 17:04:13.
(Language: English)
self indulgent balls. yes, yes, all very cleaver, but doesn't really say anything new
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A reader posted a review at 2009-09-01 13:26:27.
(Language: English)
I would say that the concept implied by this book evolves around Baudelaire's quotation: "Il me semble que je serais toujours bien la ou je ne suis pas". Paul Auster is both Paul Auster the "invented" detective which in reality is only a writer, Daniel Quinn (portraying maybe a too lucid Don Quixote of our times), the omniscient narrator, Blue, William Wilson (also found as the baseball player) and Max Work. If playing with one's imagination and limits, testing fate and challenging life is what one prefers, then I recommend entering this labyrinth. It seems like playing the Magus, only in a more postmodern world, which is tangible although glassy at the same time. The detective-story cover is used as a pretext for more in-depth searching. The red notebook, masks, Hawthorne and Dante, all are part of the same whirligig.
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Fabio Bossard posted a review at 2009-06-10 20:58:18.
(Language: Portuguese)
Muito criativo e envolvente!
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Rob posted a review at 2009-06-04 08:28:11.
(Language: English)
Gripping, fascinating, deeply puzzling. Wow.
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