by Jonathan Lethem
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
Interesting premise, though the ending was somewhat predictable.
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