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What are readers saying about The New York Trilogy City Of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room?
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-09-13 06:21:11.
(Language: English)
   
Love Mr. Blue/Brown/Black/White
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-12-18 12:21:09.
(Language: Spanish)
Paul Auster en todo su esplendor. Me encanta
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-06-19 05:54:35.
(Language: Italian)
Assolutamente fantastico. Da non perdere!
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-01-19 01:43:36.
(Language: English)
In fact only through the first part. A writer, becoming a detective, and then a tramp. This one left me with a dry throat and a shiver. I just about finished first part over new year, while handing out coins and cigarettes at 2am almost alone - with a few homeless/tramps - at Hamburg station a few weeks ago. Am trying to pull my self together to move on with it. But Shakespeare... and Development Theory (and lots of other work things) came in the way. It will be hillarious to review Hamlet as a brief Facebook note...
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-09-04 10:57:55.
(Language: English)
Definitely some great work here by Paul Auster. Although superficially each of these books use the conventions of the detective novel, the real search here is not for the murderer but for the self. There's a nice analogy between the detective and the writer that is constantly played upon. As the writer becomes closer and closer to his characters he begins to live their lives while losing his. Such is the case of all the main characters in the three novellas that start to lose their minds over the obsession of entering someone else's thoughts. In addition to some excellent prose and insights into the human psyche, Auster sprinkles his writing with erudite insights into classics of literature and random trivia, a la Kundera. Great in so many ways.
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Pia posted a review at 2010-01-07 07:44:17.
(Language: English)
intoxicating in its brilliance.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-08-09 07:01:41.
(Language: English)
I started this book by the middle: Ghosts. I was completely enthralled in it, I forgot I reading a book and I haven't been this hungry to read since "The Devil Wears Prada" two years ago... then I started "The Locked Room" which had the same effect on me, I read it, I tripped, it was fabulous. Then I read "The City of Glass" and I was highly diappointed, it was a lot less vague and psychological... I don't know if it got repetitive or... maybe it wasn't as existential as the two other books but ANYWAY I didn't like it as much, but for the pleasurably existential and psychological rollercoaster Ghosts and The Locked Room gave me, I give this 4 stars. Had the City of Glass been better it would've garnered a 5. Paul Auster is a genius <3
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-01-01 07:56:05.
(Language: English)
well-written and readable prose...unusual storry lines, but strangely uncompelling characters....
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-03-19 04:52:53.
(Language: English)
So far, I have no clue as to where this is going but I am intrigued.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-01-04 08:42:49.
(Language: English)
One of the best abstract books ever with plots most intricate and unexpected.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-02-05 07:27:50.
(Language: English)
More interesting if you read the entire book. Usually not my kind of thing but I enjoyed it.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-04-24 12:58:48.
(Language: English)
u have to read this book. no one is like Paul Auster to describe tha apple city
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Brian posted a review at 2011-01-25 08:51:01.
(Language: English)
Brilliant.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-07-04 10:01:52.
(Language: English)
The funny thing is when I read this book I was reminded of "contemporary" music which I study. (and some people that is also showy and waste of time!) Another interesting fact is Paul is a really famous author only in France and Korea. And if you think Paul Auster cannot write anythings with simple plots, I recommend to read his recent novel "Brooklyn Follies." His writing style is simplified and plot is really intriguing. And I agreed he was showy with his techniques in this book, but still in my favorite list because this was different with any books I've ever read. Paul Auster is not so popular in US,but I LOVE his works because they are so musical. As a composer, I will write a piano trio for violin,cello and piano from the idea of this book. I like his messy and crazy writing style.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-07-16 10:12:05.
(Language: English)
Welcome to a house of mirrors. Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy is sometimes confusing, sometimes tedious, but mostly intriguing. The three stories, “City of Glass,†“Ghosts,†and “The Locked Room†are closely related by their theme and plot similarities. The stories possess a few seemingly arbitrary and impossible interconnections. Auster’s characters and storylines fold and unfold in unexpected ways.There are themes of surveillance, writing, and the relationships between life and texts. The characters evolve and change roles. There are stories within stories—very much like Russian “nesting†dolls." City of Glass" concerns a mystery writer, Daniel Quinn, who becomes involved in a real case—playing the part of a private detective, conducting surveillance on a man who may pose a threat to Daniel’s “clientâ€. "Ghosts" also involves surveillance. Blue, trained by Brown, has now been hired by White to watch Black. When Black never does anything but sit in his apartment reading and writing, Blue becomes bored with the case and begins to feel trapped and resentful toward White. "The Locked Room" is of a man who becomes the executor for the literary works left behind by one of his childhood friends who inexplicably disappeared and is presumed dead.Refreshing originality, interesting characters and the intriguing storylines make this volume a worthwhile and thought-provoking read.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-06-09 12:15:01.
(Language: English)
At times, I felt almost unqualified to appreciate the brilliance of this work... It's in essence a detective novel about a writer, within a detective novel about a writer… so well written.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-02-03 11:56:39.
(Language: English)
As each of the main characters fell into madness, I felt myself go a little mad. This book made me feel frantic and claustrophobic, and when it was all said and done, I was left thinking that there must have been something I just wasn't understanding. How are all the stories linked? Or are they linked? What's the point? Or is there a point? I don't know...overall it's worth reading, but I'm so relieved I can finally put this book on the shelf and come back to my senses.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-01-17 05:45:04.
(Language: English)
The New York Trilogy is a peculiar book in that it consists of three loosely connected stories concerning detectives - yet none of them adhere comfortably to the rules of the detective genre. Instead, the stories are more about the journeys that the detectives themselves go on, questioning their own identity as they investigate that of another, never entirely sure of their own motives and essentially hitting a break wall when they realise they've been living in shadow, wasting their lives in pursuit of illusions. The writing style changes between each of the novellas to suit the particular story, though I think 'Ghosts' was possibly my favourite. Auster has succeeded in creative that rare book - the one that gets under your skin and refuses to let you stop thinking about it...
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-10-13 10:49:13.
(Language: English)
Auster is one of my favorite writer's but this is not one of my favorite by him.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-09-19 08:08:16.
(Language: English)
Thrumming grey variations on a theme, tightly ravelled and engagingly tragic.
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Susan posted a review at 2010-05-20 02:17:44.
(Language: English)
Audible. Listened while I drove from CA to Seattle last weekend. So he's trying hard. Very post-modern, playing with identity, all that stuff. But I enjoyed the book. Especially the echoing strains and characters and names and stories across the three stories. A book to think about. Not finished when you're done--even with some predictable moves. Would definitely recommend.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-02-20 11:15:22.
(Language: English)
Great, absolutely!!
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-09-01 10:56:27.
(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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A Reader posted a review at 2007-06-20 12:56:43.
(Language: English)
As I read these books, I began to feel as though the author -- although those familiar with the text will understand that this is meant to signify without specificity -- was always hidden nearby, watching me. The autobiographical continuities which appear in these and other books by Auster only heighten this sickening, thrilling feeling. A sublimely narrated and structured constellation of repulsive obsession, fugue, compulsive carnality and hard-boiled intrigue in magical unbelievablism, dirty realism and some other styles I don't know names for. As always, at least one of the main characters is recovering from the death of his wife..
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-01-13 07:12:24.
(Language: English)
Well, first I was disappointed because I thought it would have more Art Spiegelman. Of course, Art only did the cover. Sigh. Why buying books in person is sometimes better. Two of the three stories I really found intriguing. One I thought was trying too hard. It was an experiment. I think I'll read something else (perhaps my runner up choice to this one: Brooklyn Follies) before I decide that Auster isn't for me.
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