false <![CDATA[Moon Palace]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156917443m/447.jpg 447 40 Against the mythical dreamscape of America, Auster brilliantly weaves the bizarre narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg, an orphan searching for love, his father, and the key to the riddle of his origin and fate. 168560 book 1 4 1990 Moon Palace total:1670|5:516|4:678|3:372|2:87|1:17| 1670 6599 2246 106 5 2 false false Mon Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 11:56:20 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 10:23:28 -0800 2009 1
I put myself in M.S's shoes, and I cried, I laughed, I dreamt.

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pretty rad book, expanding on the ideas he touched upon in the new york trilogy.

-a

ps. another cool thing about this book is i got it from my brother mark and it has surprise drawings in it drawn by my other brothers phil and carl.

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Paul Auster writes an interesting book, and commits a few of the sins with which I am most disappointed in books. The twists are foreseeable, and only the...more...]]> 2 2 false false Wed Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jan 30 14:26:12 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 14:57:51 -0800 2008
This book was recommended to me by a person whose taste in literature I hold in high regard. That's why I was surprised to discover, halfway through the book, that it's a really terrible piece of pretentious writing. I felt no empathy with the main character -- a really spo...more...]]> 5 3 false false Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Mon Jun 18 11:16:52 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 26 12:40:36 -0700 2007 "That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia" -Joyce

"The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with." - Smith
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The youthful quest for identity and meaning is literalised into the quest for survival and in doing so perhaps it resonates with my own romantic visions of being young and feeling alone in the world. The threat of starvation, living in a cave in Central Park, surviving by ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 07:30:09 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 09:04:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Wed Nov 28 09:15:06 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 28 09:15:06 -0800 2007
Maybe he is. I don't give a damn. His characters are real inside their heads and inside the reader's heads. They are everyone's most heartbreaking anti-social impulses come to dream-life.

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Doesn't sound interesting? Yep, I admit I wouldn't have bought the book, but it was given to me and I cannot NOT read a book when you give it to me. I am now convinced that Paul Auste...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=447