First City of Glass Post

So far City of Glass has a very different tone than The Big Sleep. In some ways City of Glass is very realistic, for example the scene where the mysterious caller calls Quinn for the second time and Quinn is in the rest room. Despite a certain level of realism the book, at least in the first five chapters, doesn’t read as if it were meant to be in the realistic style. Nor does it fall under modernism, although it occasionally seems almost stream-of-consciousness. I can’t quite pinpoint what makes the tone of City of Glass so vastly different from the tone of The Big Sleep; I don’t think I’ve read enough of the book yet. However, the differences between Quinn and Marlowe might begin to account for some of the difference in the feel of the books. Marlowe is very self assured, fully trained and competent as a detective and has little or no background. Quinn, on the other hand, is a mystery writer not a detective, he is timid and introverted, has a rich background history and might have multiple personalities. Quinn has two alter egos, Wilson, his pen name, and Work, the main character in his mystery novels, and he seems to be adding a third, Paul Auster. I am very interested to see how Paul Auster will fit into the plot of the book. It is very intriguing that the author of City of Glass chose to include himself in the story.
-Samantha Pepper