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  <title><![CDATA[The New York Trilogy]]></title>
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Paul Auster's signature work, &lt;I&gt;The New York Trilogy&lt;/I&gt;, consists of three interlocking novels: &lt;I&gt;City of Glass, Ghosts&lt;/I&gt;, and &lt;I&gt;The Locked Room&lt;/I&gt;&amp;#151;haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.</default_description>
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  <read_at>Fri May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Update: <br/><br/>WELL, CONGRATULATIONS, PAUL AUSTER!!<br/><br/>I wouldn't actually have thought it possible, but with the breathtakingly sophomoric intellectual pretension of the final 30 pages of &quot;City of Glass&quot;, you have actually managed to deepen my contempt and loathing for you, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23274493">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Jun 24 16:00:34 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[At times <em>The New York Trilogy</em> strikes me as something like the movie <em>Saw</em> for intellectual types. People who enjoy <em>Saw</em> tell me that it &quot;messes with your mind,&quot; when what they really like are the suspense and the gore. Readers who enjoy <em>The New York Trilogy</em> tell me that it &quot;challenges y...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2335604">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Oct 05 15:37:01 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jul 19 16:14:11 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was only $2.95.  So, I'll give it a shot.  <br/><br/>*<br/><br/>Okay, pulled from the hall closet where it still lingers among dusty DVDs of <em>Confessions of a Dangerous Mind</em>, Martin Mull comedy albums.  The previous reader left a bookmark; simple white square upon which two words were written:...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7321271">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10613527">
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  <date_added>Tue Dec 18 03:55:51 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Dec 19 03:13:27 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Paul Auster<br/>پل استر نویسنده ی مشهور امریکایی <br/>سه کتاب شهر شیشه ای، ارواح و اتاق در بسته با استقبال بی نظیری همراه شد که باعث ادغام این سه کتاب در یک مجموعه به نام سه گا...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10613527">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7569526">
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Oct 11 00:00:23 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 11 11:41:58 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you like trite, obvious and sophomoric writing, this is the book for you...this could have been such a cool trilogy. It was painful every page...HOWEVER, this was recommended to me by someone I really respect(ed) when it comes to books..so some of you may think I'm crazy (most do anyway)]]></body>
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    <review id="27989993">
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    <body><![CDATA[First book of Paul Auster's I've read, and might be the last.  I found it to be limp, sodden with pretension and boring as fuck.  The only reason I finished it was because I was on a long train ride and had nothing else to read. ]]></body>
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    <review id="48201470">
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Margie Stein]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Mar 04 07:29:08 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[City of Glass (1985), Ghosts (1986) and The Locked Room (1986): Meta as in metafiction, also metaphysics and metaphor. This is fiction about fiction, writing about the writer.  Who’s writing whom? Who’s the author and who’s the imagined character?  Auster's characters aren’t “real” peopl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48201470">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37398926">
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  <date_added>Mon Nov 10 23:02:02 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Feb 20 23:31:08 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[For me, this was a problematic book, fraught with numerous problemats. For one thing I have a grievance with any book that expects the reader to slog halfway through it before any rewarding aspects begin to surface. I sympathize entirely with anyone who quits before getting to that point, since I ve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37398926">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15613350">
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Feb 27 18:19:32 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my first experience with Paul Auster and I have to say that I am impressed.  The three novellas included in this book are not difficult reads, but they have so much  meat to them they aren't easy reads either.  I found them to be very thought provoking.  Is this kind of obsession or sense of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15613350">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6091150">
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  <date_added>Wed Sep 12 07:52:38 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is not because of “City of Glass” that I am continuing into the second book of this trilogy; it is because the second installments are contained between the same covers and I neglected to bring an alternate book to the office. It takes hard work to make detective stories dull and to suck the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6091150">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="35193671">
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  <date_added>Mon Oct 13 10:45:12 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ermmmm, I read this some years ago and can barely recall the second and third stories now.  The three stories are 'interlocking', i.e. linked by themes and ideas, so it is not necessary to read all three in order, nor to read all three at all.<br/><br/>5 STARS for the first story which I do clearl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35193671">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3585212">
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 26 12:01:48 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jan 06 14:42:59 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't believe I read this all the way through, but I just kept thinking that at some point, something has to happen. I was disappointed. The writing is mechanical and boring. It's like being told a story by someone barely interested what they are saying. There is no experience to it, no stake in t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3585212">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47240889">
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, it reads faster than Lord of the Rings, as far as trilogies go.<br/><br/>Paul Auster wrote three detective novels that break the traditional standard of what it means to detect, investigate, and deduce; and bundled them up in a &quot;trilogy&quot; that reflects the self as much as it does th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47240889">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Comparable to (although considerably predating) Martin Amis's <em>Night Train</em> - a fascination with procedural detective stories and mystery novels leads the modernist writer to try his hand at them. Confronted with the most determinist of all genres (and the fear of being labeled a genre writer, maybe),...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75194035">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65049756">
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    <body><![CDATA[After departing Bombay by ship, Mary Russell and her husband Sherlock Holmes are en route to the bustling modern city of San Francisco. There, Mary will settle some legal affairs surrounding the inheritance of her family’s old estate. But the closer they get to port, the more Mary finds herself pr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65049756">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63867751">
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first Paul Auster I've read and I can't wait to read more (cheesy). All three stories embody what post-modernist writing can feel like when it borrows traits from the detective novel genre (I created a pretty awesome spy kit for myself as a child, complete with a MAD magazine with two vi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63867751">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[	Yay, postmodern literature!  I absolutely loved The New York Trilogy, especially City of Glass.  I think that calling Auster’s style that of anti-detective fiction is quite an apt way of putting things, precisely because we have solved absolutely nothing at the ends of his stories, and that is ex...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61753147">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book for people who like mysteries and writing and who are often disappointed when  their brains can connect all the mystery's dots and thus the book ends. This is weird enough that your brain can continue to chew on it. And all three stories wonderfully self-referential. Plus, he's got some o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5617060">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this a little irritating yet at the same time it was very readable. It just felt like it was constantly eating itself, the very self conscious inclusion of the actual author as a character, down to including Siri Husvedt and their child to me just served to pull the reader out of the narrati...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51174998">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Schon bei einer kurzen Recherche über Paul Auster fiel mir auf, dass es nicht nur mir schwer fällt, seine Bücher einem Genre oder einer Gattung zuzuordnen. Es ist demnach auch nicht ganz einfach über die &quot;New York Trilogie&quot; eine Rezension zu verfassen, da sich für mich das Buch aus me...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74803167">more...</a>]]></body>
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