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Title: Free Will?
Review: A memorable story - that keeps revolving in my mind. What is the Music of Chance? The author, Paul Auster, attempts to weigh freewill and circumstance through the art of storytelling - fluctuating between chaos and order in the same manner as a symphony. How awesome is that?The main characters at once create and are created as part of the story - alternately shifting from victimizers to victims, from ordered to chaotic. The story itself is loaded with symbolism - from a scale model of one character's life, to a stone wall constructed in a meadow, to classical music played by the main character - all of which add necessary depth and personality to an otherwise convoluted plot, not unlike life.At length the story makes one question one's own reality. This is definitely not a book to impart a "warm fuzzy," but rather to push the reader to consider his or her own free will and circumstance.
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