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While I would have given this book 2 stars after reading the second part of this book, because it was just too disturbing, and I didn't like any of the characters, the last part was quite good.
After reading some of the reviews from other folks, this seems to be a book that you either love or hate. I am definitely in the middle, and I can see why people have such extreme opinions on it. ...more
After reading some of the reviews from other folks, this seems to be a book that you either love or hate. I am definitely in the middle, and I can see why people have such extreme opinions on it. ...more
Leave it to Auster to play with point of view, reliability of the narrator and the role of the reader in creating and believing a story to take this stuff of writing classes and turn it into a compelling drama that impacts on the most basic things that make us human and causes us to question our own beliefs and prejudices in the process.
A very strange murder told in four segment that interrelate.
How the heck this book landed on the 1001 list is beyond me.
Dec 16, 2009
Tracyene
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Dec 26, 2009
Juliana Philippa
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Kat (A Journey In Reading)
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Jamie
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May 26, 2010
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Terri
marked it as boxall-s-1001
May 30, 2020
Claire Fun
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