Cat's review
Oracle Night
by Paul Auster
Cat's review
Oracle Night by Paul Auster
Cat's review
rating:
recommended for: People smarter than me who can explain it to me
I think this book might be too smart for me. I really enjoyed reading it -- the story was compelling and has a book-within-a-book-within-a-book device that I found interesting.
The thing is ... the narrator of the book just abandons the novel he's writing about 2/3 of the way into "Oracle Night." He wrote himself into a corner, and then he just dropped it. So I felt I had a lot invested in this story that he decided not to finish. Was the narrator being lazy, or Auster?
I feel like I should be searching for some deeper meaning in this novel - which is why I say it might be too smart for me. I've heard a lot about Auster and he's supposed to be a really great writer, so the level of "that's IT?" I felt at the end of the book made me think I must have missed something.
I'm going to look for the Cliff's Notes. Because if there's not a philosophical meaning to this book that just went over my head... well, then, "Oracle Night" just sort of blows.
The thing is ... the narrator of the book just abandons the novel he's writing about 2/3 of the way into "Oracle Night." He wrote himself into a corner, and then he just dropped it. So I felt I had a lot invested in this story that he decided not to finish. Was the narrator being lazy, or Auster?
I feel like I should be searching for some deeper meaning in this novel - which is why I say it might be too smart for me. I've heard a lot about Auster and he's supposed to be a really great writer, so the level of "that's IT?" I felt at the end of the book made me think I must have missed something.
I'm going to look for the Cliff's Notes. Because if there's not a philosophical meaning to this book that just went over my head... well, then, "Oracle Night" just sort of blows.
