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As She Climbed Across the Table: A Novel - Jonathan Lethem
As She Climbed Across the Table: A Novel
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Format: ebook
ISBN: 9781299041042 (1299041043)
Publisher: Vintage Books
Edition language: English
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nouveau
nouveau rated it
5.0 As She Climbed Across the Table: A Novel
for better (and of course, definitely worse) I was in New York City around the turn of the millenium. one of the appeals of city life is the illusion it gives of "centrality." certain Manhattan movie theatres have day-before national release distribution of motion pictures (I saw Sophia Coppola's LO...
thomcat
thomcat rated it
A story about blindness, figuratively and literally - drug through an academic satire (which didn't enthrall me). All tolled (or told) it was an entertaining book, and I did laugh out loud at times. 3.5 stars
NinthWanderer
NinthWanderer rated it
I like this bit: "Talk was hopeless. We smiled apologetically, while our words went spilling like platefuls of barbecue sauce onto a white dress in a detergent ad, comical slow-motion disaster."This book is entertaining. I am entertained.But, seriously, dialogue tags. My kingdom for some dialogue ta...
Books, You Guys!
Books, You Guys! rated it
3.0
Jonathan Lethem's As She Climbed Across the Table is two books in one: a parable about love and obsession, and a sharp satire of academia. It is narrated by Phillip Engstrand, a sociology professor who talks entirely too much. Phillip tells us the story of Lack, a hole in the universe opened by an...
Osho
Osho rated it
You know by now that I love Lethem, right? Who else could write a love triangle with a physicist, a social scientist, and nothing? Though it includes a blind Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern, Schrodinger's cat, and many other amusing features (some of which are surely physics jokes that I don't get), th...
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