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    I’ve recently finished reading the trilogy and I have pretty much mixed feelings about the novels. On one hand, I really didn’t see any meaning in the plots themselves, the second one *Ghosts* made zero sense to me whatsoever. The final installment *Locked Room* was good plotwise, but again, no meaning in the plot or why characters do what they do. Same with the first one *City of Glass.* But I really liked the middle part of the plot. I thought it was actually going somewhere until it didn’t, and hated the way it ended.

    On the other hand, although I didn’t really enjoy the plots, I actually found the writing style very readable. Usually when the plot is not at all appealing to me, I just feel the book to be a bore. But surprisingly this one didn’t feel boring. I just felt like reading it. It was *easy*, and prose was nice. This is my first time picking up this author. To me the writing felt pretty much stream of thoughts of the narrator across the whole trilogy. I mean, there was barely any dialogue in most chapters. It’s just descriptions and endless thoughts.

    Is this how *stream of consciousness* novels are like? Also, are all Paul Auster’s novels like this?

    A few years ago, I started reading Woolf’s *To the Lighthouse* but couldn’t get through the third page due to her writing style.

    by thebestnobody

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