Ahhh, Another Day...

I just realized it's like 10:05 and i've not done anything (still since i'm writing this crap), oh well. Man i'm so out of it but here's the obligatory review of Auster's New York Trilogy:

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

It's really three novellas: City of Glass, Ghosts and The Locked Room. They're all confusing as hell and very have very unsatisfying endings for detective novels, then again it's Auster, so u know it's not some conventional crap shoot'em, get the girl everyone's happy ending. anyway i'm not gonna bother summarizing cuz the plot is irrelevent except that the three stories all revolve around the main character either being hired or forced to seek out some indistinct person.

Although they are supposedly detective stories, there is virtually no action, except waiting, reading and walking, this inevitably leaves the characters too much time to think about their "prey", themselves and the confusing relationship between them and other fascinating yet completely pointless subjects that people think of when they are incredibly bored. In the end these stories end with the protagonists having life changing realizations that they were not at all the people they thought they were. Auster talks alot about the theme of isolation and there is an underlying commentary on the shittiness of modern capitalist society and the desire to escape into a more pure and primitive state. Overall it's incredibly written and full of ideas that forces to think about who you are as reader and react in some (at least) subconscious way to the characters.

I liked the Locked Room (the third story) the most, it's the only one in which Auster writes in first person and it gives it a more attached feeling. also it sort of ties in to the other stories and make his points more obvious. Not an easy read, but definitely worth a try.

Well that was a really crappily written book review, but onto something interesting from my new book, Myth Lies and Downright Stupidity by John Stossel: sex during pregnancy is awesome for couples, yay!!! lol.