Moon Palace

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Summary: My favourite Book
Review: Moon Palace was Paul Auster's first book that I read. It is really hard for me to explain how much I loved this book. It is my all-time favourite book. I read it in a stage of my life, where emotionally, I was walking on the same path as the main character in the book. The way how Auster has this insight on the characters that he creates is fantastic. If you like simplicity with a little dose of absurdity, you should definitely read Paul Auster's Moon Palace.

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Summary: Deeply moving
Review: Reading a book is seldom as psychologically (or physically!) painful as reading this one. I still remember reading portions of the book (like the part where Marco's uncle dies and leaves him boxes of books, each of which is read and sold one at a time) which touched me deeply. I don't know what it is about this book, but I read it a long time ago (1990 or so) and I have read it again many times. It is a fine book.

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Summary: Findings and loss
Review: _Moon Palace_ flickers through three generations of a family, with M.S. Fogg as the family avatar. Fogg is orphaned and uncled, and orphaned and sistered and fathered and fathering and finally orphaned again in a strange and gorgeous circle that still somehow manages to complete itself with satisfaction (if with sadness). Auster has written a book populated by beautiful ghosts. Highly recommended.

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Summary: takes you to another place...
Review: i can't express in words the phenomenal difference this book has made in my life. i have read it several times and it only gets better. paul auster brings so much feeling out from the mind of m.s. and pulls you into his confusion and melancholy life.

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Summary: Good piece of work
Review: Strong characteres, fine plot and story line (some really great passages), easy to get through without missing the point. It's a book to pick up every once in a while, but after all just good, not brilliant.

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Summary: A Paul Auster fan
Review: Paul Auster is a brilliant writer, and this is his best book. It's beautifully written, slightly melancholy (well, maybe more than slightly), and is the sort of book that makes you sigh when you've finished it. Having read this one, I immediately went out and bought all the rest. Anyone who ever thinks strange thoughts should read this book.

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Summary: poetry in motion
Review: The story is wonderful. It has been many years since I have read it. However it continues to leave sweet emotions in my mind. The book deals with the themes of: destiny and coincidence, or fate and chance. It is also about much more, including being a fun tale

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Summary: The best Auster I rade
Review: This book is brilliant you must read it if you want to know more about life .

More reasons I like this book

1) Auster creativity is outstanding 2) I never saw a man write so good 3) I never saw a book so deep ,ee every espect ofour daily life and light him . 4) fun and easy to read

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Summary: auster makes me want to shive in a closet, i cannot write...
Review: love is displayed in moon palace as beautiful and shameless. i sculpted the beauty of love as it shall appear directly from this novel, marco and kitty wu are like no other pair... he starts where she begins, or is it the other way around. the way they casually stomp on eachother's hearts is wrenching to the mind.. and you feel for them. you feel the despair in marco's mind as he has to let go of the only connection to his past, and also looses the contents of his living room... before he looses his living room completely.

this is is a story of loss. first he looses his beloved uncle, then he looses his needed money, then he looses his mind. and he is saved by his goddess kitty wu, he owes his life to her and she finds stability in him. together they complete everything you ever knew about love and turned it into the purple skies you had always dreamt of.

i cannot express how beautiful and scary this novel is at the sae time, it made me want love but it also made me scared of it. paul auster is a brilliant sculptor of words, he strings them together in a careless manner that destroys all that you have established. he lets them spill from his head... and you are there in the tide that is his thoughts, trying to stand on two feet and trying desperately to grab ahold of something.

there is nobody that writes like auster, and he seriously puts me in this trance that throws me all over the place. he makes me fear things, he makes the tears start to flow, he makes me have inspiration to create something beautiful and then rip it to shreads.

he makes me want to be ruthless, brazen... and then me makes me want to shiver in the middle of a field and wish to be rescued by someone wonderful.

give into the movement, let auster drag you along with the masterpiece of words called moon palace...

and you didn't even hear anything about the wonderful moon illusions throughout the book....

there is no beginning, it simply encircles you.

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Summary: If this book was a pizza......
Review: At first we found the story very boring, but later it turned out to be very interesting. The novel had it's moments when it was exciting and funny, but still we think there is a general lack of humour. It's a novel filled with many weird coincidences, maybe too many. The jumping around in time makes the story very confusing and steals the excitement of the story. This also makes it longwinded to read but still there are many positive passages. The main character Marco is a very disturbed young man, who belives that his life is controlled by destiny. Our conclusion is that this story is intended for people who like to use their imagination for connecting details.