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I shook his hand for the first time in the spring of 1967. I was a second-year student at Columbia then, a know-nothing boy with an appetite for books and a belief (or delusion) that one day I would become good enough to call myself a poet, and because I read poetry, I had already met his namesake in Dante's hell, a dead man shuffling through the final verses of the twenty-eighth canto of the Inferno. Bertan de Born, the 12th-century Provençal poet, carrying his severed head by the hair as it sw
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i love paul auster...this wasn't my favorite of his but it still gets a four!
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Not impressed so far ... Although there are some powerful human events in the book, it is surprisingly flat and passionless.
,,, update ... well, I don't see why this novel is on the 1001 Books To Read before you Die list. It is clumsy and uses very basic perspectives that you are taught in primary school. The ending was disappointing as well. It feels like the author, assured in his 'superstardom', churned out any old rubbish knowing that the literary pseuds would lap it up.
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,,, update ... well, I don't see why this novel is on the 1001 Books To Read before you Die list. It is clumsy and uses very basic perspectives that you are taught in primary school. The ending was disappointing as well. It feels like the author, assured in his 'superstardom', churned out any old rubbish knowing that the literary pseuds would lap it up.
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