false 50615 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170370509m/50615.jpg 50615 20 729200 book 1982 The Invention of Solitude total:774|5:224|4:289|3:200|2:54|1:7| 774 2991 1091 52 296961 3.75 30854 3196 12055553 257381 50615 0143112228 9780143112228 37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170370509m/50615.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50615.The_Invention_of_Solitude 3.87 643 5 1 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 09 07:43:30 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 16 08:31:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> 61015765 2456419 50615 0143112228 9780143112228 37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170370509m/50615.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50615.The_Invention_of_Solitude 3.87 643 4 0 false Sun Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 24 20:37:56 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 20:38:23 -0700 2009
Whenever I bought this, apparently I only read the first half about his father's passing, and assumed the second half was about him having a son, which it kinda is, but amongst lots of other things. But fo...more...]]> 3650701 157881 50615 0143112228 9780143112228 37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170370509m/50615.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50615.The_Invention_of_Solitude 3.87 643 3 1 false Wed May 14 11:27:12 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 27 09:46:45 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 02:24:42 -0800 2009 more...]]> 75704219 2502113 50615 0143112228 9780143112228 37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170370509m/50615.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50615.The_Invention_of_Solitude 3.87 643 2 0 false Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 16:01:03 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 16:59:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1696853 107654 50615 0143112228 9780143112228 37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170370509m/50615.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50615.The_Invention_of_Solitude 3.87 643 4 1 false Tue Jun 05 19:37:58 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 20:49:07 -0800 2009 more...]]> 52414006 2147949 1244858 057115414X 9780571154142 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182213721m/1244858.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1244858.The_Invention_of_Solitude 2.50 2 2 0 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Apr 12 14:44:55 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 14:46:14 -0700 2009
I found the first section very interesting, I enjoyed the style, the flow and the story.

The second section I was less keen on - so much so that I didn't finish it. I did enjoy the references to other texts and the stories themselves were enjoyabl...more...]]> 63455710 2517163 50615 0143112228 9780143112228 37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170370509m/50615.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50615.The_Invention_of_Solitude 3.87 643 4 0 false Tue Jul 14 11:08:42 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 12:09:29 -0700 2009 This book consists of two stories. The first, is superb and quite touching. The second is very abstract and diffuclt to engage with. Worth buying just read the first story about Paul Auster's father.

]]> 28578842 5900 3358107 9643694401 9789643694401 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223570211m/3358107.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3358107._ 3.60 5 0 0 false Fri Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 21:38:55 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 05:21:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> 7546082 432060 50615 0143112228 9780143112228 37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170370509m/50615.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50615.The_Invention_of_Solitude 3.87 643 5 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Oct 10 13:51:07 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 10 13:56:06 -0700 2007 more...]]> 6728913 413583 50615 0143112228 9780143112228 37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170370509m/50615.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50615.The_Invention_of_Solitude 3.87 643 4 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Sep 24 16:26:35 -0700 2007 Wed Jan 09 17:30:43 -0800 2008 more...]]> 49322346 1026538 50615 0143112228 9780143112228 37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170370509m/50615.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50615.The_Invention_of_Solitude 3.87 643 2 0 false Sat Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 04:53:33 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 04:55:34 -0700 2009 Por ahí, lo intuí apócrifo a ese relato.
Pero de ser cierto...]]> 43443393 1925283 50615 0143112228 9780143112228 37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170370509m/50615.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50615.The_Invention_of_Solitude 3.87 643 5 0 false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 18 05:59:35 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 06:01:08 -0800 2009 72212887 1683156 3904214 3498000330 9783498000332 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3904214.Die_Erfindung_der_Einsamkeit 3.00 1 3 0 false Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 04:44:45 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 07:07:41 -0700 2009 The first part however was really tedious.
Given that this book is renowned as Auster's best, ...more...]]> 39880056 1655598 50615 0143112228 9780143112228 37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170370509m/50615.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50615.The_Invention_of_Solitude 3.87 643 0 0 false Thu Dec 11 11:34:58 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 20 12:01:13 -0800 2009 more...]]> 74507313 1289001 50615 0143112228 9780143112228 37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170370509m/50615.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50615.The_Invention_of_Solitude 3.87 643 5 0 false Wed Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 09:32:39 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 09:33:36 -0700 2009 67504485 2629284 50615 0143112228 9780143112228 37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170370509m/50615.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50615.The_Invention_of_Solitude 3.87 643 5 0 false Sat Aug 15 11:07:57 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 11:08:59 -0700 2009 34368217 693662 50615 0143112228 9780143112228 37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170370509m/50615.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50615.The_Invention_of_Solitude 3.87 643 4 0 false Tue Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Oct 02 10:34:50 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 19 08:16:52 -0800 2008
He has alot of good insight into solitude, memory and writing. Written more like a collection of long thoughts into two parts, "Portrai...more...]]> 15741629 635746 895333 0571227279 9780571227273 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179265110m/895333.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/895333.The_Invention_of_Solitude 3.79 19 4 0 false Mon Feb 18 17:42:59 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 18 17:52:46 -0800 2008
The first part is just plain good storytelling. Kinda makes you want to write about your own father/grandfather...
Auster writes of his fathe...more...]]> 1792509 88295 452 0140106286 9780140106282 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156917445m/452.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/452.The_Invention_of_Solitude_A_Memoir 3.93 54 4 0 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Sat Jun 09 05:15:39 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 09 05:17:32 -0700 2007 The Art of Hunger and The Red Notebook. This memoir about his father is especially good, however, both for its formal restraint as for the odd way he approaches t...more...]]> 57614833 2106798 50615 0143112228 9780143112228 37 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170370509m/50615.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50615.The_Invention_of_Solitude 3.87 643 5 0 false Thu May 28 09:06:09 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 20:55:56 -0700 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=50615