David has finished
Paul Auster
The New York Trilogy
David's closing remark
Recommended“This was recommended to me several times, and I finally got around reading it. Three detective stories but not told in the usual way, filled with tricks and cross-references. Liked how the stories moved from slow and dreamy to quick bursts of action, and then back again. Really good book, already want to re-read it. Recommended.”
highlights & comments
Words in this I didn't know before: ample, brambles, spectre, sauntering, penury, phrenology, sill, kitchenette, buffoon, obsequiously, pieties, fussing, solemn, arbitrate, throes, floundering, befuddled, cipher, jocular, conked, prissy, jousting, ushered, brittle, dunce, effusive, conjured, revelling, lucidity, plodding, pertain, haughtiness, elliptical, contrite, coils, lycée, cutthroat, ensconced, thyme, stringency, dank, exorbitantly, exulted, gashed and trope.
From Ghosts: "The days continue to pass. Once again Blue falls into step with Black, perhaps even more harmoniously than before. In doing so, he discovers the inherent paradox of his situation. For the closer he feels to Black, the less he finds it necessary to think about him. In other words, the more deeply entangled he becomes, the freer he is. What bogs him down is not involvement but separation."
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