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Bizarre.
So bizarre, I was actually frustrated at one point. That might have been more because of other life-happenings than because of the book, so I will discount the frustration part. But only a little.
I picked this up at the library book sale, knowing Auster is on the 1001 list. I didn't have the list with me, and hoped this would be among his titles. It isn't. Neither is the other one I picked up at the same time, but I'll happily read it. Also those titles that are on the list. In spite of ...more
So bizarre, I was actually frustrated at one point. That might have been more because of other life-happenings than because of the book, so I will discount the frustration part. But only a little.
I picked this up at the library book sale, knowing Auster is on the 1001 list. I didn't have the list with me, and hoped this would be among his titles. It isn't. Neither is the other one I picked up at the same time, but I'll happily read it. Also those titles that are on the list. In spite of ...more
As a writer, I was thoroughly drawn into the novel, which shares some of the paradoxes/absurdities of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author. Where do these fictions go after the writer is through with them? Well, they don't go anywhere, and just as they competed for attention with the real world while they were being created, they continue to compete with the disintegrating real world. I like wandering that corridor (Wittgenstein's Mistress, too). I do think he made it too neat wit
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Mar 21, 2009
Potjy
marked it as to-read
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akemi m.
marked it as to-read
Feb 26, 2013
Susan
marked it as to-read
