Famous First and Last Lines

"It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on other end asking for someone he was not."

The author of this book City of Glass is Paul Auster, the book was written in 1985. Auster was bron on February 3, 1947 and is known for writing blends of absudism, existentialism, and crime fiction. He is currently 67 and lives in Newark, New Jersey. His pen name though is Paul Queen or Paul Benjamin.


The City of Glass is the first book in the series Paul Auster wrote. The series is called The New York Trilogy. Auster first wrote the first book City of Glass in 1985, published the other two books, Ghosts, The Locked Room, in 1986. City of Glass is about a detective-fiction writer that has become a private investigator and he somehow turns into madness as he digs into this case.


Honestly, I would probably not read this, because one I do not like books that are about a mystery, and if they do I like the teenage-friendly books, I guess you could say. I do not really like books that have the main character as a boy, or man, for this instance. I would probably skip this book if it was on a shelf and go to another one.

"Maybe I will go to Paris. Who knows? But I'll sure as hell never go back to Texas again."

James Crumley is the author of the book The Final Country. Crumley was born on October 12, 1939 and died on September 17, 2008. He was the author of violent crime novels, and also many short stories and essays. Crumley has been described as "one of the modern crime writing's best practitioners." He was born in Texas, ironically, and died when he was 68 in Montana.


The Final Country is a part of one of his other books bringing in one of the characters Milo Milodragovitch, who is in a late age and is hating that. He owns a business in Texas Hill Country, being rich, and is near the end of a relationship. Throughout this book he goes from a boring life to a full life of practically everything it seems.


As I have stated previously in the last book, I do not enjoy this genre so I would also pass up this book. The summary of the book on Goodreads didn't even sound like anything I am even interested in, but I really do like the last line of the book; it can lead me to several different thoughts on what is happening.