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Originally Posted by winjer
We're on a very similar litereary sphere.... my addiction to Murakami a couple years ago was definatley only really broken by Auster novels...
The New York Trilogy is definatley my fave... any reason you didn't read The Locked Room? Typically I see the three published together....
Not sure about his latest couple.... his most recent has gotten pretty awful reviews, so I've stayed away.
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I made a small mistake in the initial post and switched
The Locked Room with
Music of Chance. It should've been
The Locked Room initially.
That makes me worried knowing his last few have gotten pretty awful reviews. I've been trying to avoid reading the reviews of his novels until I've finished them.
I just recently picked up this
book,
Collected Prose of Paul Auster. Should be fun to get into.
winjer, if you have the chance, it's worth tracking down this
issue of the
Paris Review, it's the 50th anniversary issue that was published right after the death of George Plimpton, the magazines editor, but it also features an
interview with Paul Auster as part of the magazine's
Art of Fiction interview collection.
And on that note, I gotta put in a mention of the
Paris Review's interview with Haruki Murakami in the Summer of 2004
issue. Like the Auster interview, it's a part of the
Art of Fiction interview series. The Murakami
interview is a great read as it gets into almost all of his work including
Kafka on the Shore which hadn't been published in the states as of the issues publication in the summer of 04.
What kind of other stuff have you been reading?