This was one of the longest books I have read in a while, and it can be a bit of a slog. The writing twist does help to keep things fresh but overall the book is a beating because it just never ends. 800+ pages on this bad boy and you feel every one of them. Paul Auster uses these way too many pages to tell the story of young Archie Ferguson growing up in the 1960s, and he tells it four different times in […]
Earth below us, drifting, falling
I had yet to read any Paul Auster when I saw 4 3 2 1 on the 2017 Man Booker shortlist, and I didn’t jump on it right away, mostly because of its sheer size, this brick of a book at 1,070 pages. I don’t read a lot of long books because I’m not a fast reader and can be easily distracted, so I figured this was a pass, but then I read a synopsis and found myself intrigued by the structural conceit of telling […]