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Paul Auster

Making a trip into Toronto where the book selection is much higher. I plan on picking up an Auster. I've already read Oracle Night and own The New York Trilogies. Which should I pick up?
 
I have read Paul Auster´s latest book "Travels in the Scriptorium". It has been published here in Denmark before anywhere else, but it should get to the rest of the world in a couple of months.

Its great! Its not like any other Auster novel but then again nobody could write this kind of book, like Auster.

I wont say much more besides it would be a good idea if you know the characters in his earlier books before reading this one.

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I've only read The New York Trilogy, and hated it with a passion I had hitherto reserved for The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers (and that was only because I had to study it in school). I hated the contrived plots, the wafer-thin characters and the meaningless situations. Are all his books like this? I'd like to give Auster another chance sometime, but not if everything he's written is in this vein.
 
I've read The Brooklyn Follies, In the Country of Last Things and The Book of Illusions and I'm totally sold on Auster. What a fantastic writer. I can't wait to get to all of his other books.
 
I recently read City of Glass and wasn't really that impressed - should I read the next two books in the trilogy?
 
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