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"I was looking for a quite place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain".
How's that for the opening of a book? When buying the finally-out-in-paperback 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' at an English bookstore, I came across the book with the above opening, Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster. It just totally grabbed me and I had to buy it.
I read the book in 2 days, on the train to and from London this week (business trip) and yippee I liked it, which means a new author to read! I always get excited when I find new authors. Now i'm reading another book by him which I found in the English section of the local library.
Don't worry I buy, borrow, and read books in French too!
By the way, I was disappointd with the latest Harry Potter installment. Much shorter than the 5th book, even shorter than the 4th. Not as much happened. And what did the Half-Blood Prince's book have to do with the plot?
How's that for the opening of a book? When buying the finally-out-in-paperback 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' at an English bookstore, I came across the book with the above opening, Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster. It just totally grabbed me and I had to buy it.
I read the book in 2 days, on the train to and from London this week (business trip) and yippee I liked it, which means a new author to read! I always get excited when I find new authors. Now i'm reading another book by him which I found in the English section of the local library.
Don't worry I buy, borrow, and read books in French too!
By the way, I was disappointd with the latest Harry Potter installment. Much shorter than the 5th book, even shorter than the 4th. Not as much happened. And what did the Half-Blood Prince's book have to do with the plot?
posted by SB at 12:16 PM
3 Comments:
Have you read Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem? Unfortunately, I don't remember much about it, but the setting was Brooklyn. I read it in December, 2000.
I am told that I do not read enough fiction. But I did read the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson. He is known for his sci-fi (cyberpunk?) novels such as "Snow Crash" and "The Diamond Age", but the three novels of the Baroque Cycle is a massive, fun historical epic that takes place, as you may have guessed, in the late 1600's and early 1700's. Isaac Newton, Gottfried von Liebniz, Robert Hooke, Kings Louis XIV and most kings of England and diverse vagabonds, soldiers, harem-slaves, pirates and others are characters. It takes place all over the globe, but a fair amount of the action in the first two books is in Paris / Versailles and quite a lot of it in London. It would be a fun look at the history of your current environs. The books are Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World. Check 'em out!
Hello-- I am a friend of your Moms -enjoying your blog. Decided to try Paul Auster. The first one I read was "Auggie Wren's Christmas Story" which is verrrrrry short but I knew I had seen this as a movie -- and it is!! -- The movie is Smoke -- a really interesting movie and one of my favorites. I did not know it was a book. You might enjoy the film if you can locate it. Now onto another of his novels! Just thot you mite be interested --
Sue Rebro
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