Moon Palace

I've read the NY-trilogy, Leviathan, Mr. Vertigo, the Red Notebook and Moon Palace by Auster.Moon Palace is so far my favourite of Austers novels. The NY trilogy is very distinct from his other novels (at least the ones I've read), so don't expect the same kind of thrill from reading Moon Palace as you get in the trilogy. But do expect to be deeply touched...I did. You really come to love the story and its characters. So if you don't know which Auster book to read, choose Moon Palace.

I can't put my finger on it, but the combination of writing style and subtle yet intense multi-layered tale make it my favourite book of all time.

good book. Thanks.

Really good story, intricate but at the time easy to read. Definitely worth reading.

I have just read the various reviews of 'Moon Palace' present here om Amazon.co.uk, and I must admit that it surprises me to see that the book has got so bad grades as it has.'Moon Palace' is to me, a guy in his early twenties with limited knowledge on the theories of post-modern literature and what not, so I can only tell you what I got out of it.The book is, to me, a great story of coincidences and how some people continue to choose paths that seems wrong to you, but makes perfect sense to the protagonist. M.S. Fogg, the protagonist, is a person that you do not really know whether you like or not, but given his sad childhood with an absent father and a mother that dies tragically, maybe it is not so difficult to understand why Fogg does what he does.As in all Auster books, Auster creates a really great background story to all the characters, describing them so vividly that you are convinced they must have been real people. Both Thomas Effing, Kitty Wu, Solomon Barber and Miss Hume are presented really well, and whereas the protagonist sort of becomes a character in the background, all the others steal the picture quite elegantly.How Mr Auster creates these stories I do not know, but it is certain that I will have read each and every one of them before long.