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... real resolution. I guess I should read the sequel Good Wives but I just don't feel any real great desire to. Now for New York Trilogy which will be my first Paul Auster.

... me--self-indulgent (he references characters from many of his novels) and boring. Far better to read BROOKLYN FOLLIES, NEW YORK TRILOGY, IN THE COUNTRY OF LAST THINGS or nearly anything else.

deebee1, The New York Trilogy is not only a Penguin classic, it's one of the Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions. I'm kinda fond of those editions. They are the ones with the French flaps and an introduction by some literary figure. My TNYT has an intro by Luc Sante.

... detail -- expat experience or perspective within the context of important events in history. any suggestions? > VG, The New York Trilogy is now a Penguin classic? interesting. i've always thought Penguin classics were works of authors already dead. in any case, at least here in europe, i ...

... lately is The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone. That used to be in the general fiction sections. Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy is on the classics shelves in the Penguin edition. I've don't recall espying The Egyptian in classics in the stores I've visited recently.

... Ah, well...seems to be out of print. Too bad, I always called it a Canadian ON THE ROAD... #12--Try Auster's NEW YORK TRILOGY and IN THE COUNTRY OF LAST THINGS. Terrific reads.

... with my keeping up with everyone's thread) but he can, like Chuck Palahniuk, be an acquired taste. I have read The New York Trilogy - I had it in one volume - and appreciated it more for it's style rather than it's substance... I also have The Deptford Trilogy in my TBR pile: I ...

OK, that list was way too long! I've deleted it. If anyone wants the alphabetized list, tell me and I'll send it to you.

>90: Sadly, I haven't read Travels in the Scriptorim. The New York Trilogy is my intro to Auster, so it's really all I've read. I'm really enjoying it though and, because I'm a bit anal and love to make lists (though it seems I rarely stick to them), I've already started a list of authors I ...

#66 I'm with you - I enjoyed all of The New York Trilogy very much, but for me, Ghosts was the least enjoyable of the three. Funnily enough though, it grows of me in retrospect... #85 Rachel, I put my name down for that one, but like you, I have an outstanding review (Vilnius Poker) - so ...

... border:1px solid black src=http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0143039830.01._SX140_SY225_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg> Ghosts: Book Two of the New York Trilogy by Paul Auster Rating: 4/5 In Ghosts, Auster bares the basics of detective fiction to this concept: one person (the ...

... I just finished Ghosts and am trying to figure out how to write a review for it so as soon as I do that and finish The Locked Room, I'll look into his other books. He's quickly becoming one of my favorite authors! Thanks for the recommendation!

>79 I LOVE LOVE LOVE the New York Trilogy. Think Paul Auster is fab - although the new one sounds possibly a bit strong for my stomach... we'll see.

... border:1px solid black src=http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0143039830.01._SX140_SY225_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg> City of Glass: Book One of the New York Trilogy by Paul Auster Rating: 4/5 Spoilers ahead. Daniel Quinn writes mysteries under the pseudonym William Wilson. An ...

... Deliverance -Just a Couple of Days -The Raw Shark Texts -House of Leaves -Eeeee Eee Eeee -The Wasp Factory -The New York Trilogy (counted as 1) -Americana -The Origin of the Brunists -Observatory Mansions

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster; tbr

Okay...that's it...I must stop doing this! From Audible.com: The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow South of Broad by Pat Conroy

... by ? Singh This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Jelloun Family of Secrets by Russ Baker 2666 by Roberto Bolano The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov The Whisperers by Orlando Figes Iphigenia by Maria de la Paresa Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon ...

... countries, but decided to join this year in order to give my money directly to the publisher. ... And I couldn't find The New York Trilogy anywhere else at a decent price... Since then I've been following a therapy similar to quitting smoking by forcing yourself to smoke a carton a day ( ...

#1. New York Finished The New York Trilogy,- three postmodern detective stories by Paul Auster. "I think that _City of Glass_ makes its intentions pretty clear: it has some fun with the noir thriller by comparing the pulp detective's life with the pulp author's life." "I place this item ...

# 13 The Locked Room by Paul AUster (The third book in the New York Trilogy series) 179 pages 4 stars The Locked Room is ...

... by the editor to a number of clients for free, gently passed on to me so this is in fact a third category of mine. 27 : New York trilogy by Paul Auster : two categories for this one : writers i never read before (so this is my first completed category, hurray) and books distributed (nearl ...

31. New Mexico - Mount Dragon by Douglas Preston 32. New York - New York Trilogy by Paul Auster (reread) 33. North Carolina - A Walk To Remember by Nicholas Sparks 34. North Dakota - The Search by Iris Johansen 35. Ohio - Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (reread) ...

Presumably The Glass Room is not yet available in the US. I checked Amazon - $71.00!!! Ouch. Some people get all the luck :-) I am chartreuse green with envy.

... to Amazon US, How to Paint a Dead Man comes out in the US on Sep 8, and it doesn't list Brixton Beach or The Glass Room yet. Brixton, BTW, is an area in South London that has been the home of black and Caribbean immigrants to the UK since the 1950s, when a large migration ...

... wonderful books that I am just dying to read and my library has none of them! I am adding Brixton Beach and The Glass Room to Planet (never gonna get read if my library does not get them in), lol. I admit I have to laugh at the title of How to Paint A Dead Man - I keep ...

I just started reading Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy, very impressive so far.

... Odyssey, an ER book about a blind cat. So far, it ranks right up there with Dewey. #53 - I love Auster and have had The New York Trilogy in my tbr pile for ages. I started and stopped it twice now. I just can't seem to catch it at the right time!

NEW YORK The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster--Three loosely interrelated detective stories in which the author plays games with the reader, and the city itself plays a prominent role. Recommended.

... issippi 25. Missouri 26 Montana 27 Nebraska 28. Nevada 29. New Hampshire 30. New Jersey 31. New Mexico 32. New York--The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster 3/09 33 North Carolina 34. North Dakota 35. Ohio 36. Oklahoma 37. Oregon 38. Pennsylvania 39. Rhode Island 40. South Carolina ...

... Parrot The Unbearable Lightness of Being The Cider House Rules Love in the Time of Cholera Beloved Watchmen The New York Trilogy Kitchen Dirk Gentley's Holistic Detective Agency Focault's Pendulum Like Water for Chocolate The Things They Carried Memoirs of a Geish ...

... His descriptions of the Tokyo train stations are still in my head. One that also came to my head immediately was The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster. This one seems to fit several of your criteria - and it's a pretty quick read.

... Swedish, highly regarded series. I've read three others - The Laughing Policeman, The Fire Engine That Disappeared and The Locked Room. The Dragon Man by Garry Disher - first of series featuring Insp. Challis, set on coast south of Melbourne, Australia, very good. Blood Moon by G ...

Received a BookMooch today- New York Trilogy by Paul Auster. It's funny that I went weeks without getting any books in the mailbox and now they're trickling in one after the other.

polutropos, On the Road was going to be my next suggestion. Guess I'll have to go with Paul Auster's New York Trilogy instead. :)

... that price, Buchan Stories which look interesting, A Nervous Splendour: Vienna 1888-1889 as we may be visiting next year, The New York Trilogy which I enjoyed back in 1989 although it is rather cerebral and A Room with a View which is pure delight.

... 4 1/2 stars 18. Dark Star Safari by Theroux 3 stars 19. The Burning Book by Maggie Gee 1 1/2 stars 20. The New York Trilogy by Auster 4 stars 21. Poor Folk by Doestoevsky 22. Hottentot Venus by Chase-Riboud 3 stars 23. Pale Fire by Nabokov 5 stars 24. Bl ...

... the best paper around. I especially love it when they vary the the type of paper in one volume - touch the illustrations in The New York Trilogy to see what I mean. It was when my 70s paperbacks started falling apart that I began my project of replacing my favourite books with good quality ...

... border="0" alt="Photobucket"> #21: The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster These three stories set in New York City seem at first unrelated but certain common themes soon emerge; the writer’s ...

... Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta 2666 by Roberto Bolano New York Trilogy by Paul Auster Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Headhunter by Timothy Findley The Insulted and the Injured by Dostoevsky Property ...

... Americas: MEXICO 2666 by Roberto Bolano CANADA Headhunters by Timothy Findley UNITED STATES The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster and numerous others. VENEZUELA Iphigenia: A Diary by Teresa de la Parra 6/09 EL SALVADOR Senselessness by Hora ...

I'll second (or third?) The New York Trilogy - my first by Paul Auster, and glad to know there is more where that came from.

The New York Trilogy was one of my favorite reads for March. Because I enjoyed it so much, I then read Man in the Dark and Timbuktu before the end of March, and am now a Paul Auster fan.

... a short foray into Minnesota and the South with Soldier's Heart with Gary Paulsen. I'm continuing in New York with New York Trilogy by Paul Auster and I'm in Paris with The Elegance of the Hedgehog with Muriel Barbery.

Half through The Elegance of the Hedgehog which is finally getting interesting and New York Trilogy which I'm enjoying, but not enough to get me to spend long periods reading, so it's going slowly.

... underglass! It's hard to be objective about Auster, as a fan, but I'll try not to drivel too much.:) My first Auster was New York Trilogy, which proved to be a succesful start, as I became a fan at once. I'd highly recommend it to anyone interested in reading Auster for the first time. My ...

kiwi--It's quite short, and The New York Trilogy is a much better book. I liked Man in the Dark because of the alternate history aspect, although that plot aspect was resolved abruptly, and somewhat unsatisfactorily.

Mine were The New York Trilogy and 2666. If I used rereads, Pale Fire would be my favorite.

... in these parts as any sort of encouragement is always much appreciated. I do want to read more of Auster’s work and have The New York Trilogy lined up 4 books down my tbr. I have quite a few of his other titles on my wish list but have to admit I'd never heard of Oracle Night. Guess I'll ...

There's Paul Auster's New York Trilogy.

... enjoyed The Penelopiad - it's cleverly done. #188 Prop2gether, that's interesting, I had a very similar reaction to The New York trilogy when I read it last year (and also read City of Glass in graphic format prior to reading the trilogy!). Definitely one to re-read, but not just yet.. ...

Wow! Numbers 96 though 100: Lighthouse at the End of the World by Jules Verne The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood Real Murders by Charlaine Harris White Butterfly by Walter Mosley Another adventure, one more 1001 Must Read, a retelling of myth, ...

... I'm sure I'll enjoy the book, but I think it was a very strange decision to make. Today I received in the mail New York Trilogy.

I read The New York Trilogy and The Tartar Steppe, and reread Pale Fire.

348. 2666 by Roberto Bolano 2/09 349. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster, 3/09 350. The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati, 3/09 351. To The Ends of the Earth by William Golding, 12/08

... burden of the past on the present, as in Faulkner for example, the author would start much further back than in a book like The New York Trilogy, which began with the phone calls initiating the investigation. The focus and themes of that book relate to the investigation and Quinn's conceptions ...

I finished The New York Trilogy, and have become a Paul Auster fan. The three novellas constituting the trilogy are ostensibly noir detective stories, but those who like their mysteries solved may feel disappointed when they have finished the book. In City of Glass, Quinn, a writer who ...

21. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster (1980's) 308 pp This book consists of three novellas written in the 1980's. Ostensibly, the novellas are noir mystery stories. However, the book is not for those who like their mysteries solved. In City of Glass, Quinn, a writer who dropped out ...

... ago and loved it), Dostoevsky's The Insulted and the Injured (for the annual Dostoevsky read), and Paul Auster's New York Trilogy for my book club meeting Tuesday. I have not been in the habit of reading more than one book at a time until recently, but so far I am not finding it too ...

... Haddon 2. Life of Pi - Yann Martel 3. The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx 4. Billy Bathgate - E. L. Doctorow 5. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster 6. Watchmen - Alan Moore and David Gibbons 7. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 8. White Noise - Don DeLillo ...

I'm in NYC with Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy.

... Shteynfarb" makes very funny commentary) The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter (author as secondary character) The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster (fairly brief appearance as author) Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami (as Hiraku Makimura, minor character part) The French Lieut ...

... give 5 (or six:) out of 5 stars to both. I hope (and suspect) that you'll enjoy the book. I also loved Moon Palace and The New York Trilogy when I read them a few years ago. I really liked Timbuktu and In the Country of Last Things as well, but wouldn't give them more than 4 stars. I ...

... ostings. 1. 20th-Century Authors I Am Ashamed Not to Have Read Beware of Pity, Stefan Zweig (read) The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster (read) The Sea, John Banville (read) Swann's Way, Marcel Proust - begun, on hold because of a trip, but ...

... Presumably, the later books are tighter in plot and character development. City of Glass is the first of Auster's The New York Trilogy of stories which are part of the 1001 Must Read list. Last year I read the graphic novel version of this story, and, frankly, I think it got me through ...

... Easton Ellis 23) Possession: A Romance -- A. S. Byatt 24) The Remains of the Day -- Kazuo Ishiguro 25) The New York Trilogy -- Paul Auster

... the balance right (probably most often, I'm sure fans would say), for instance, I thought their edition of Paul Auster's "The New York trilogy" a smashing success from this point of view (and I didn't even like the book, as text).

my mailman outdid himself today from a Biblio.com gift certificate The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster Oyster by John Baguenet from BookMooch: What Came Before He Shot Her by Elizabeth George (chalk up one more for EG) my order from Better World Books: Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar (for ...

... t 16. Family of Secrets 17. 2666 MARCH BOOKS 18. Poor Folk 19. Dark Star Safari 20. The Burning Book 21. The New York Trilogy 22. Hottentot Venus 23. Pale Fire 24. Blackwater 25. Headhunter 26. A Box of Matches 27. The Insulted and the Injured 28. The Living ...

... 75 before 2008 is up is looking like quite a challenge again. 68. Timbuktu by Paul Auster I've only previously read The New York Trilogy by Auster but my friend who shares similar tastes thought that was his weakest book and encouraged me to read his others. I was drawn to this one as ...

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster (in my TBR pile)

... ing! book04011 and musicmom41, I'm intrigued by discussion of Arnaldur Indriðason - I like crime fiction and enjoyed The Locked Room by Swedish writers Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo - both for its realism and laughable insights into the incompetence of the Stockholm Police Force.

I just realized I hadn't listed Paul Auster's New York Trilogy here, which I read a few months ago. So we'll call that 47.

From appydo1's library, I choose The Book of Illusions because I really enjoyed The New York Trilogy.

... Mortier (finished on 19 july) 5. Mijn winterkat, mijn lief by Antonio Lobo Antunes (finished on 17 august) 6. New York trilogy by Paul Auster (finished on 21 august) 7. Genieten van wijn by Joanna Simon (finished on 26 september) 8. Tot op het bot by Anthony Bourdain ...

... (finished on 12th of august) 8. Mijn winterkat, mijn lief by Antonio Lobo Antunes (finished on 17 august) 9. New York trilogy by Paul Auster (finished on 21 august)

... of the Hubble Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It, Robert Zimmerman. Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin. The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster. And since The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga just won the Booker I picked up a copy. I won't finish all of them this week ...

... came out last year - and The Inner Life of Martin Frost - which was a film by Paul Auster which came out last year. In The New York Trilogy there is an author in there called Paul Auster. Etc, because with my memory I have of course forgotten all the other examples. :) And there's a sneaky ...

The New York Trilogy is killer. Great art, great writing. The M. R. James collection is pretty fantastic, too.

The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra The Bookseller of Kabul Asne Seierstad

#142 But it does make me want to rescue The New York Trilogy from the middle of my TBR pile and move it right to the top!

... Writer The Black Dahlia The Passion The Pigeon The Child in Time Cigarettes The Bonfire of the Vanities The New York Trilogy World’s End Enigma of Arrival The Taebek Mountains Beloved Anagrams Matigari Marya Watchmen The Old Devils Lost Language ...

... started. I must stop - I have nowhere to even stuff these in on my bookshelves. The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart The Locked Room by Paul Auster The Noodle Maker by Ma Jian Property by Valerie Martin The Collector by John Fowles Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith ...

Is that from Auster's New York Trilogy?

Finished The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster and have started An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears...

46. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster My third foray into this author's work - well worth the time...

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

Finished Wildcard by Rachel Lee and have started The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster...

... have succumbed - even though I have no idea where I am going to store these books... :-) I ordered: My Early Life, The New York Trilogy and Tennyson Selected Poems. Since I will almost certainly have the "mystery book", look out for an offer on the Free Folio Society Book thread ...

... Rowling 2. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis 3. A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter by John Galsworthy 4. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster 5. The Night Trilogy by Elie Wiesel 6. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 7. The Chronicles of Barset ...

... the Galaxy 90. The Unbearable Lightness of Being 91. The Handmaid’s Tale 92. Love in the Time of Cholera 93. The New York Trilogy 94. American Psycho 95. Hideous Kinky 96. Smilla’s Sense of Snow 97. The Secret History 98. Trainspotting 99. Captain Corelli’s Man ...

Oh... another great book might be Paul Auster's New York Trilogy. It deals with madness, identity, obsession, meta-text, and so much more which would tie nicely into Seven... and it's a short quick read which happens also to be a noir type of book.

#38: Yep - Reepicheep was a 'big' favourite for me too! :) Re the Paul Auster New York Trilogy, fundamentally, the common theme of these was the nature of identity - how we relate to ourselves, to others and to their perceptions of us and also the extreme effects of retreating into oneself. ...

31) Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy: finally finished this. More on it later when I'm not at work. I did enjoy it, but think I would have enjoyed it more if I hadn't been reading it in very short fits and starts during every other lunch break - I really need to pick my lunchtime books ...

31) Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy: finally finished this. More on it later when I'm not at work. I did enjoy it, but think I would have enjoyed it more if I hadn't been reading it in very short fits and starts during every other lunch break - I really need to pick my lunchtime books ...

... My son's school principal recommended The Classical Age as a great way to fill in the gaps in Greek and Roman history. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster was just issued in a beautifully designed and illustrated edition by The Folio Society, so I re-read it with pleasure. I also re-read ...

I just received a book from the Society that is in itself a good answer why some books should not be leather bound: New York Trilogy is another of the Society's triumphs. The illustrations are just perfect, and the use of a detail from one on the cover shows why some books are better without ...

I just received a book from the Society that is in itself a good answer why some books should not be leather bound: New York Trilogy is another of the Society's triumphs. The illustrations are just perfect, and the use of a detail from one on the cover shows why some books are better without ...

... #7: I just received a book from the Society that is in itself a good answer why some books should not be leather bound: New York Trilogy is another of the Society's triumphs. The illustrations are just perfect, and the use of a detail from one on the cover shows why some books are better ...

... politically correct ones. The best detective story (the most literate) I've read in recent years has to be Auster's The New York Trilogy. The most disappointing Ian Sansom's The Case of the Missing Books. The latter starts out along the lines of Howard Engel's Benny Cooperman, ...

... my usual thing of reading several at the time, so 30) & 31) are still ongoing. I have actually finished the first book of The New York Trilogy; City Of Glass (which actually, half way through, I realised I'd read before!). Comments to follow when I've finished all 3. 32) Amelie Nothomb ...

... about... I wish I was a better linguist! And to temper this, the next book on my list is: 31) Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy.

... Grey by Anne Bronte (great, though I liked some sections better than others), and the first two books of Paul Auster's New York Trilogy (good). #2: I loved A Room with a View--read it a month or so ago.

... (surprisingly funny in some places), and Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child. I read the first two books of Paul Auster's New York Trilogy, and while I thought they were pretty good, I'm not finding myself compelled to read the third yet. I started Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratche ...

... describe how i felt after reading this book. Auster used to be really good in his earlier works... I especially liked his New York Trilogy. 29. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami - found this short story collection a bit bland and unimaginative.

... an over-productive month, I'll narrow my selections to: 1. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, père 2. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster 3. The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares Honorable Mentions: A Clockwork Orange, Post Office, and Two on a Tower

... of Glass, a graphic novel treatment of Auster's book of the same name (excellent on its on merit, along with the entire New York Trilogy) ... also, although it's based on a true crime, Torso was fantastic ... and I've got a graphic novel version of one of Raymond Chandler's novels that ...

... Contemporary Authors: Cormac McCarthy, Charles Bukowski Playwright: Tennessee Williams Ex-Credit: A Clockwork Orange, The New York Trilogy Leaving me a book away from closing out my French category.

... Glass Menagerie ***½ by Tennessee Williams 04/09/08 †A Clockwork Orange **** by Anthony Burgess 04/10/08 The Locked Room (#65) **** by Paul Auster 04/11/08

... Easton Ellis 23) Possession: A Romance -- A. S. Byatt 24) The Remains of the Day -- Kazuo Ishiguro 25) The New York Trilogy -- Paul Auster 26) Beloved -- Toni Morrison 27) Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons 28) An Artist of the Floating World -- Kazu ...

After finishing The New York Trilogy I have started on Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers, which was one of my SantaThing gifts. This is my first by Sayers and I'm only about 40 pages in but I think I'm going to enjoy it.

... Ligotti Three Days to Never by Tim Powers Ghost Hunters by Deborah Blum The Brooklyn Follies and The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster Still have to finish Acid Row by Minette Walters as my 88th book this year May 2008 bring a wealth of great reading to ...

I just finished reading City of Glass and plan to continue with more of The New York Trilogy this evening. I'm definitely enjoying it so far, but I have my SantaThing presents calling out to me as well as some other stuff I have bought myself in the last few days.

25: Book of Illusions was good but my favorite so far is Oracle Night - am looking forward to reading New York Trilogy This is kind of like the Palahniuk thread; yes Choke was good but then all of his books have something about them; for fiction, my favorite is Survivor but i also ...

#26: thanks for the suggestion, I will put New York Trilogy in my library queue. -- media1001

#25 Auster's New York Trilogy is a whole heap better than anything else of his I've read. If you read that and don't like it, then he's not for you.

... 1. Money by Martin Amis 2. London Fields by Martin Amis 3. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 4. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster 5. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks 6. Regeneration by Pat Barker 7. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 8. The 39 Ste ...

... days. All from second hand shops or thrift stores: Swiss Family Robinson Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde Travels with my Aunt The New York Trilogy A Bend in the River The Talented Mr. Ripley Nightwood The Sea The Shadow of the Wind English Music by Peter Ackroyd Maturin's Melm ...

... on recommendation here. I don't read much nonfiction but it definitely is holding my interest. At home, I am finishing up Paul Auster's New York Trilogy at home. I had it from the library and liked it so much that I decided to buy it. Okay, now the touchstones are finally working after ...

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

I am in 1940s New York with Paul Auster's New York Trilogy. Some of it is a bit slow but there are moments of brilliance and beauty. Such is life.

... the following from a second-hand bookstore: The Assistant by Malamud Singular Rebellion by Saiichi Maruya The New York Trilogy by Auster The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban Our public libraries have been on strike for the ...

... here is passionate about books and that's not always easy to find in the "real world." Maybe I'll take another look at New York Trilogy.

... that I really wanted more of that same feeling. The first story in this book delivered. The other two were good, but City of Glass was one of my all time favorite books. I couldn’t stop thinking about all the twists Auster played on the concept of identity. However, there was one ...

... books I've read a number of times but which I don't own, the closest would be books I've (sadly) lost: Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy and Alan Lightman's Einstein's Dreams.

... I did a tagmash on novel, New York -- I've read a few of these that came up. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster. These include City of Glass, Ghosts, and Locked Room. Well crafted, haunted tales. The chosen; a novel by Chaim Potok ...

... I am about to get on a plane with the as of yet unstarted In Cold Blood. If I make good progress with it, I might get to The New York Trilogy or Voss later in the week.

The girl shrugged. "I've read better and I've read worse." The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

... the characters.) Cat's Eye is excellent, and quick to read, although extremely depressing. The three individual books of The New York Trilogy are really short...around 100 pages, IIRC. Camus' books (especially The Stranger/The Outsider) are easy too, and there's no shortage books analysing ...

The New York Trilogy is a fairly good introduction to Paul Auster, a kind of detective/metaphysical/existential mash, if you see what I mean. You probably don't, so just read the stories instead!

... Dunces by John Kennedy Toole -- couldn't finish it. Paul Auster's City of Glass, the first book in what is now The New York Trilogy -- short enough that I finished it, but couldn't see what all the fuss was about. Bright Lights, Big City by Jay MacInerney -- ditto

Kind of outside ye olde box, but there's Paul Auster's New York Trilogy ...

... 1001 list has a lot of inferior stuff and the neglect of plays and poetry makes it really weak.For current stuff I love the New York Times Notable Books for each year, their Editor's choice lists, and the reviews in the New York Review of Books and the London Times Literary Supplement.The ...

... favorites (e.g. favorites from the past year or so), I'd say Haruki Murakami's Windup Bird Chronicle, Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy, Colm Toiben's The Master, and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.

... by Elizabeth Berg 5) Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi 6) The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster 7) Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman 8) Arms of Nemesis by Steven Saylor 9) Music of the Swamp by Lewis Nordan

The separate books that make up Paul Auster's New York Trilogy (City of Glass, Ghosts and The locked room) are all, I believe, 200 pages or under ...

... and Art Spiegelman. I have so far bought two of them, Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums and Paul Auster's New York Trilogy. They're wonderful! Even the inside cover flaps are very well illustrated. I am so going to buy the rest in the series. Here's the ibbetson in Book talk : City of Glass: what the heck...? (Jan 12, 2007, 8:56am)

... shortcomings you refer to, either. Other than all that, what did you think of the story? I stumbled on the book (New York Trilogy) by chance, and started reading it as a "straight" story, looking for the end to explain the mysteries presented. Needless to say, I am on my second ...

... and Art Spiegelman. I have so far bought two of them, Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums and Paul Auster's New York Trilogy. They're wonderful! Even the inside cover flaps are very well illustrated. I am so going to buy the rest in the series. Here's the sycoraxpine in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 23 Dec 2006 (Dec 26, 2006, 9:24am)

... for something more substantial and complex from my first encounter with Lethem. Now I am turning my full attention to The New York Trilogy, which (although it is excellent) I have been reading off and on for about a month and a half. After that it will be Le Grand Meaulnes for an online ...

... reads of utterly different genres but similar anxieties about family. I am still (after all these weeks!!) at work on The New York Trilogy, and have just started Ben Okri's The Famished Road. The latter is dauntingly immense, but even after only a dozen pages it promises to be a ...

... and utterly entranced (so entranced that I haven't made too much progress on the two other excellent books I am reading, The New York Trilogy and The Artful Egg). It is somehow only the second Hardy I have read, despite 9 consecutive years of literature study, and it is delightfully ...

... attempts to give the science of weather a human face). It may grab me yet. Also on the imminently-to-be-read pile: The New York Trilogy (which I believe I have declared "about to be read" in at least the last three "What are you reading now" threads) and John Twelve Hawks's The Trav ...

... Up Bird Chronicles I haven't read this but have read several others, and liked them. Paul Auster they recommend The New York Trilogy I haven't read this but have read, and liked, others... Lord of the Rings - I read this when it originally came out, when I was a teenager! (Yes, ...

... Sparrow paperback editions, all at separate used book sales, all for under $2 a piece ... I just had to gloat a bit! Re: New York Trilogy ... not really recommended if your friend is expecting a "standard" mystery experience ... as the other poster hinted at, these stories use kind of a ...

... message 81: Yes if she doesn't mind not having a clear-cut resolution at the end. It's been several years since I read New York Trilogy by Paul Auster but I seem to remember feeling the stories were more about the journey than the destination. Perhaps I should add it to the re-read pile.

KromesTomes (and all you others who have spoken about New York trilogy )-- I have a friend who loves reading books set in NYC - she is normally a lighter, mystery reader but loves to try anything - (she is in my book group and every month complains that we are not reading a mystery and every ...

... and am already groaning over my high school underlining (I haven't read it since). A friend just sent me Paul Auster's New York Trilogy, after I told him how much I enjoyed Book of Illusions, so I can't wait to jump into that as soon as I have a chance.

... and My Name Is Red. The leading Orientalist (and novelist) Robert Irwin likened The Black Book to Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy, insomuch that it is a metaphysical detective story set in a strong physical location, in this case, Istanbul. My Name Is Red is again set up as a ...

I don't understand some of the list. Auster is listed with City of Glass but not the other two parts of his New York Trilogy. Ballard is listed with Empire of the Sun, probably the least genre bending of all his works. It is a list with a lot of good works but at least 50% of them ...

... xample... Roth The Plot Against America Atwood The Handmaid's Tale Eco The Name of the Rose Auster The New York Trilogy Carter Nights at the Circus Are these writers read because they are 'literary' authors, or are the works skipped over because they rely ...