Telegraph Avenue is a major commercial thoroughfare in a minor California city. It is also the setting of Michael Chabon's savory slice in the life of Archie, the half-owner of a used record store, struggling with impending fatherhood, and Gwen, his wife, a fast-talking, hormonally-challenged midwif...
Let me start by pointing out that I did not put this book on either my race shelf or my class-poverty shelf because, while Chabon spends a lot of time ranting about both race and poverty, he doesn't really say much about any of it. The whole book felt a lot like Luther's rant on the migration of bl...
Truly insightful, gorgeous writing line by line but too many characters racing around in too many different loops without enough of a compelling plot to keep me interested - maybe he was trying to be Dickensian, but I had a hard time staying with the tale(s)... I lost interest and didn't finish.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book; perhaps the first of Chabon's that I've enjoyed unreservedly. I think it helps that I am already often preoccupied with obscure music and films. the references to Tarantino were obvious before they became explicit. But don't worry there's very little gore here and th...
Wavering between 3 and 4. A lot of threads, here, some handled better than others. I can't think of what to say about it, really; don't want to summarize and don't want to awkwardly criticize his awkward representation of multiracial Oakland. It's a pretty good story that moves well. When it gets si...
I'm a little ashamed to admit how little I enjoyed this book. I don't want to be all "Books are hard," but there are too many plot threads and characters that I can't keep straight and Chabon's never-ending sentences seems less like a demonstration of his control of the English language than a demon...
Eh. I loved Kavalier and Klay but have never really been able to get into any of Chabon's other books. I started reading this, skimmed for a while trying to hook into it, but couldn't connect. I'm maybe a little bored with the literary exploration of this certain segment of fandom (straight dude col...
How could I not love this book? For the past twenty years I have lived a half block off Telegraph Avenue in Oakland. With this book Michael Chabon makes my world a colorful and vital place to live (which it truly is). It is a perceptive portrayal of life in a 21st-century urban American neighborh...
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