

S'està carregant… Motherless Brooklynde Jonathan Lethem
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Top Five Books of 2020 (779) » 18 més Books Read in 2020 (828) A Novel Cure (309) Books Read in 2014 (1,707) Page Turners (56) Books Read in 2004 (61) Titoli bestiali (5) Books Read in 2021 (2,053) BIRDS IN FICTION (2) Best Noir Fiction (112) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Great read, with language that went spinning through my head for days. Jonathan Lethem has a gift for patterning and phrase. I found some parts of the plot less than convincing, but I was happy to be along for the ride. ( ![]() Loved it. The voice is unique, funny and tragic, and now I'm hoping the author's other books are as enjoyable. Noir with a twist. The book worked for me until it didn't. After awhile the tic-ing and the Tourette's interfered with my ability to maintain interest in the story. An enjoyable take on the hardboiled mystery - familiar enough to feel cozy, but strange enough to feel new. The Tourette's characterizations triggered some of my own tics while reading. The thing this book does beautifully is to make you feel like you've inhabited a different sort of mind. It's sort of a detective story, but the real appeal is in how you experience the view from behind the eyes of a narrator whose internal (and external) mono/dialogue is so very different from your own. It's lyrical and lovely and playful and sometimes a little heartbreaking. Lethem here takes a familiar genre -- the detective story -- and enlivens it by tweaking the style and replacing (self-consciously) the verbal tics of that genre with the verbal tics of the unusual narrator. I enjoyed this one a lot. It's the third Lethem book I've read, and I figure he's three for three so far. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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A walk on the wild side of Brooklyn's criminal underclass with a hero known as "The Human Freakshow," a would-be detective also answering to the name of Lionel Essrog. Essrog is a victim of Tourette's Syndrome; hapless and veering out of control, he fights himself and his disease. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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