I only read "City of Glass" but I plan on reading the other two stories.

I thought "City of Glass" was incredibly thought provoking. So many interesting ideas about identity and language. It had me guessing the whole time. ( )

Yeah, he's brilliant. I kept turning the pages. This is a airport/transport book, but not a beach one: The lives are so bleak, human stripped of any human connections. The mystery, the case, is all and it's not really going to be solved. As someone else here put it: "The inability to find or discover the other becomes the inability to understand oneself."

I'm not sure to whom I would recommend this,or any Auster fiction. But this is a good introduction to him. ( )

Was not impressed: I read this book because I loved Paul Aster's Brooklyn Follies. This compilation of 3 short stories may have well been written by a completely different author. They are short detective stories that are slightly intertwined. I did not enjoy this book and do not recommend it.

An existentially probing series of interrelated detective stories. In each of the three stories in "The New York Trilogy" the search for the other is sublimated and internalized as a search for the self. The inability to find or discover the other becomes the inability to understand oneself. Auster's style is sparse, in the style of the great pulp detective novels of the early part of the 1900s. A philosophically intense and brilliantly constructed novel that should be standard fare in high school and college literature classes. One of the very best contemporary novels. ( )

Blue, Black, Quinn, Stillman, Fanshawe - I got it, I think, but now I've forgotten what happened and why.