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Report From The Interior (2013)

by Paul Auster(Favorite Author)

3.34 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0805098577 (ISBN13: 9780805098570)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Henry Holt and Co.

review 1: Paul Auster reminisces about his childhood discovery of the world, back when everything was new to him. He was born only one year before I was, so we share a common era. His memories triggered mostly pleasant ones of my own childhood that hadn't been brought to mind for decades. After reaching the age of 12, self awareness begins and the innocent sense of wonder begins to decline. The miseries of adolescense lay ahead. It is very little comfort that everyone goes through this period. It is a wretched time for those as sensitive as the author. The college years were a little less interesting for a reader. Auster relies on a series of letters that he wrote to a former girlfriend to evoke his forgotten emotions and the long ago events of his collegiate life . Interes... moretingly, he writes about himself in the third person. Looking back at my youth, I realize that I probably would also consider myself as another person.
review 2: Torn between 2 and 3 stars ("it was ok" to "liked it") but have to go with "it was OK" ... and I'm a bit Paul Auster fan.I loved the other two autiobiographical books of his that I've read - "Winter Journal" and "The Invention of Solitude". I know I'll go back and re-read them both, savouring them, making new discoveries along the way."Report from the Interior" is a follow-on to "Winter Journal". The first third of the book still has magic, but the last written section - letters he wrote in his early 20s to his first wife - became tedious. less

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