My Opinion to Oracle Night

What is your reaction to the novel as a whole? If you liked it, what did you enjoy most about it? If you didn't, what about the story did you find lacking?

Upon finishing Oracle Night, I was left in awe, possessing some feelings of astonishment concerning the ending of the novel. The novel is very captivating and interesting. The fact that Paul Auster was able to juggle two different plots is extremely talented. Somehow the novel’s ending wasn’t satisfying enough, yet somehow it is exactly the perfect ending for the novel. Surly it did rap-up all the single story lines in the novel, but it was missing the certain “flavor” which had been available all through the rest of the story.
Auster’s way of not dividing his novel into chapters is noteworthy, especially when understanding one of the main themes, time, and how time is linear, as though everything continues to continue. Even though the plot is over duration of a couple of days, the author allows everything to flow easily, depicting the flow of time. There are many references to time and the explicit difference between the past and future mainly when Sidney was considering writing the screenplay. “…As soon as one person began to travel in time, time as we knew it would be destroyed…”
From its multi-layered gripping plots to the occasional foot notes in which the Sidney describes the background, there are many special and unique features about Oracle Night.