Reviews - Paul Auster's City of Glass

Paul Auster's City of Glass by Paul Karasik, Paul Auster, David Mazzucchelli

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It is an interesting read but I don’t think that I’d appreciate it fully. I am curious to read what the novel is based from; but from what I have read now... it might be something that I might be not interested to.

verumsomnium's review against another edition

4.0

My first ‘reading’ of Paul Auster, interesting storyline beautifully illustrated!

carrotsreads's review against another edition

4.0

i always love to read a book that leaves you feeling slightly insane. the graphic elements were incredible—i’ve owned this book for years and had been putting it off, and there’s no reason. exceeded my expectations

maxwelldunn's review against another edition

2.0

I had really high hopes for this, and for the first 1/3 of the book I was really impressed and confused and enjoying the abstractness. But then it took a big turn downhill.

This graphic novel is an adaptation of a novel of the same name by Paul Auster, so I wonder if I would get more enjoyment out of the prose version (since I will admit I am not the biggest fan of graphic novels to begin with. I like them, but it takes a lot to really hook me.

Mainly, this book deals with really interesting topics such as language, authorship, identity, and some other very deep themes. But I felt that the ending was very confusing and didn't finish what the beginning set up so well. Maybe that was intentional, since this book is very 'meta.'

I had to read this for class, and we will be discussing it in the next meeting. Perhaps I will be more enlightened by the discussion and see something more than what I have so far. If so, maybe I will change my rating. But as of right now I was underwhelmed.