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Mr Vertigo

Author: Paul Auster
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Category: Book

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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

5 reviews
Sales Rank: 2231

Media: Paperback
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 4.9 x 0.7

ISBN: 0571229085
EAN: 9780571229086
ASIN: 0571229085

Publication Date: January 5, 2006
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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

What can I say?... Simply wonderful. January 5, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

One of the best books I have ever read. The first line instantly grabs you into the story: "I was twelve years old the first time I walked on water" This book took my imagination beyond reality, with eccentric, yet totally believable characters. Highly recommended.

4 out of 5 stars

A rare theme very skillfully narrated November 19, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

Before reading Mr. Vertigo I had already enjoyed reading Auster's "Moon Palace" and "The New York Trilogy". What encouraged me to continue reading Auster's novels is his mesmerizing narration and the carefully-crafted plot where characters appear, vanish and reappear at unexpected intervals.
Auster managed once again to make me defer other (more pressing) issues of my everyday life in order to find out what happens to Walt, Master Yehudi, and Mrs W. I honestly found it very difficult to put the book down.
Highly recommended!

5 out of 5 stars

A Dizzying, Dazzling, Dynamite Novel. November 9, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful

This is the second novel I have read by Mr Paul Auster, and it will certainly not be the last. MR VERTIGO is a fabulous adventure story that shook me by the scruff of the neck and invaded my dreams.

It is one of those books that one is loathe to put down, as the story has definite narcotic qualities. I suffer from insomnia, but found it bearable as I was reading MR VERTIGO, as I could simply leap out of bed and continue to consume this marvellous tale!

And what a tale it is - a tale about childhood, lessons learned, endlessly dreaming and achieving those dreams, maturity, love and loss, folly and redemption. Hell, I'm waffling - It is a book about being ALIVE.

On finishing the book, I felt elated and satisfied but was already starting to miss these larger-than-life, highly colourful characters: Walt the Wonder Boy, Master Yehudi, Mother Sioux, Marion Witherspoon, Aesop - each character lovable and posessing their own kooky charisma.

Now I'm experiencing withdrawal symptoms from MR VERTIGO. My solution? - To read more Auster! I read THE BOOK OF ILLUSIONS prior to VERTIGO (also excellent, though not quite as consistently dazzling as this book). Now I intend to go back and explore the earlier works of this master storyteller.

I'm glad I discovered Paul Auster. So will you be!

5 out of 5 stars

very good read November 5, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I have read numerous books by Auster and his abillity to grip the reader with a story that would sometimes not as be as interesting or as worthy in the hands of a lesser skilled writer is astonishing. To me this book and many of his other tales are about the journey rather than the quality of the story. This book is my favourite of Auster's work, it is a wonderful, simple, yet intruging story of a young boys jounrney through life and into a wierd and wacky world. Read this book with an open mind and you will love it.

5 out of 5 stars

amazing story June 18, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

If you like good old fashioned tales that you need an imagination to read this is the book for you. I loved every bit of it, what a great read at any age