Thanks for that, Steven. The Granta video is especially great - Invisible promises to be good.

As you can probably tell from the "What are you reading?" thread I've become more interested with Auster recently (even though I've only read two of his works: The New York Trilogy and The Book of Illusions). Could you recommend anything of his I should read next? Thanks.

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"In his dream, which he later forgot, he found himself alone in a room, firing a pistol into a bare white wall."

It helps greatly, thanks. I think I'll pick up The Red Notebook and Leviathan next.

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"In his dream, which he later forgot, he found himself alone in a room, firing a pistol into a bare white wall."

Wow, keep us posted on how you get on...

S

Finally got my copy of In the Country of Last Things. Finished it last night (in one sitting... Proud of that)
The novel was kind of dense, so i was suprised i could plow through it so quickly. But, i have to say, every time a page ended, i was anticipating the next. I really really really really enjoyed it.

Again, Auster does the nifty reference-other-books-in-this-one thing, with Quinn briefly making an appearance :) (i squealed when i read his name... yes.)

The world Auster creates in this book is frightening. Once i finished, i still had the fleeting feeling that the world was as he described it. I remember i got up to grab a hair elastic, couldn't find one, and thought to myself "Who am i kidding? There isn't even enough food live off of, nevermind a hair elastic." Then, of course, i remembered i was not in the book anymore, and ended up finding an elastic (sorry for that ramble..) But, the point is, I still felt the echoes of the book after I had finished it. After the cover was closed.

Favourite quote:
"The rain makes no distinctions. At one time or another, it falls on everyone, and when it falls, everyone is equal to eveyrone else - no one better, no one worse, everyone equal and the same."

(and there was one more, but i can't find it right now.)

But, i do love the quote on the back, by Washington Post Book World:
"...One of the better modern attempts at describing hell."

This is a book I will not be able to shake. Ever.

Also, when i watched the movie One Week not too long ago, there was a trailer for the movie Act of God, in which Paul Auster narrates
Preview Here: http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/actofgod/
I read that Auster was chosen partly because he witnessed a friend being killed by a lightening strike when he was fourteen.

And last night i watched the movie Smoke, written by Paul Auster. It was split up by character, but still presented the story as a whole. There were also a lot of stories within the movie. Not like secondary plots, but there were a lot of stories that were told which i really enjoyed