The Red Notebook: True Stories
by Paul Auster
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Bollocks to people who doubt me every time I tell an amazing story. True, I do tend to choose to believe a story if it makes life more interesting but besides that, amazing things really do happen! Doubting them by default seems like a little death to me, that the mundanity of everyday existence has even extended to your willingness to even hear about amazing things is so depressing. Ugh, I sound like a fourteen year old.
As a perfect example I'd like to recount the story of one of my closes...more
As a perfect example I'd like to recount the story of one of my closes...more
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Read in April, 2006
When you're a man as good-looking, beloved by the French, and utterly meta as Paul Auster, things happen to you. Exciting things. Surprising things. Coicidental and virtually impossible things. And if things aren't happening to you, then by golly, they are happening to someone you know. And so what are you to do, Paul Auster, but to write a book detailing the minute ways in which life (specifically yours) truly means something.
Because, Dear Reader, everything is connected.
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Because, Dear Reader, everything is connected.
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Read in March, 2008
This incredible little book is a collection of almost unbelievable, true "happenstances" that one of my favorite authors compiled. Each vignette, only a few pages, is a story with amazing outcomes, neatly tied up into feel-good endings. I still question the veracity of the whole thing but it is a quick read, wholly satisfying and full of humanity that makes me happy and makes me close my eyes with a smile at each ending.
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Read in January, 2007
A fine little collection of stories. I love that they all center on the strange nature of life - the coincidences that are more than coincidence. Those laughable, painful, disturbing, moving turns of life.
My favorites are the one about the onion and the one about camping. They resonated; I will remember them for a long time. Some stories I enjoyed more than others, of course. All are worth a read.
And it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.
My favorites are the one about the onion and the one about camping. They resonated; I will remember them for a long time. Some stories I enjoyed more than others, of course. All are worth a read.
And it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.
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Read in August, 2007
I started this yesterday, and I finished it today. Unlike other story collections I've read where they start of with the best, this one started off with a good story and just got better as they went along. It made me think of all those odd little things that have happened in my life and the odd stories other people have told me. It's a nice read. enjoyable. relatable. comfortable.
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Read in July, 2003
"The Music of Chance" is the phrase that probably best describes Auster's work, and though with a few exceptions I pretty much hate the novels, I love his nonfiction. The little stories collected here, originally published in various other slim volumes, are like stiff doses of Auster's main themes. And seem to reveal a lot about what makes his storytelling jones tick.
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Read in October, 2007
recommends it for:
synchronicity fans or people who love little stories
Auster tells all sorts of little stories that involve synchronous happenings. I love this kind of thing, which is precisely why I picked it up. He keeps coming up in my life, so I decided to give him a chance. I'm glad that I did. I finished the last story just as the train arrived at my stop. Perfect timing.
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This is as mystical as Auster gets. Which isn't even that mystical. Which is weird, because if even one of these true stories happened to me, the sheer coincedence would make me afraid for my own free will.
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An exotic collection of synchronicities. Nothing quite like this little book of "true stories" drawn from the already mysterious life of Paul Auster.
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Read in October, 2005
Cortito. Retoma temas, especialmente el del padre, que ya había abordado con mayor profundidad y mejor resultado en La invención de la soledad
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Read in August, 2004
No es bien bien una novela, son apuntes sobre los azares de la vida... curioso, no tiene más, pero escrito por Auster gana en todo.
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This was cool cause they were true stories. Some of them are about Auster himself.
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interesting anecdotes... a must for paul auster groupies...
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