Showing posts with label Lethem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lethem. Show all posts

Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem

 05.05.06
66%




Flashes of brilliance and consistent linguistic ingenuity, though its oddness and rather unsatisfactory ending let it down. Lethem is certainly an interesting and imaginative writer, so I'm happy to indulge him.

As She Climbed Across the Table - Jonathan Lethem

 71%
29.12.04




This is refreshing - physics and metaphysics collide in a story told with near-scientific precision. Elegant and precise but with a complexity of layers - is nothing ever really nothing or is it everything?