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Title: Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem ISBN: 0312862202 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Rating: 4
Summary: Amazing, Vertiginous Tour de Force
Comment: What an amazing accomplishment is this book. It is simultaneously funny and sad, familiar yet very strange, and it moves along with a predictable rhythm while never actually going where you expect. Ever.
Lethem has written some of the most inventive novels I've ever read -- "Girl in Landscape," "As She Climbed Across The Table," "Motherless Brooklyn" -- and he's just as creative here. His characters and the situations he puts them in ride the knife-edge between absolute believability and (some kind of) science fiction outlandishness, but it's to Lethem's credit that you never lose your attachments to his cast.
The twists in this book -- which if you've read it you know about, and if not I couldn't BEGIN to explain them to you -- rank it right up with "Girl" for audacity. I was reminded of the movie "Being John Malkovich" or some of Fellini's work perhaps. Definitely the work of a major talent, both in scope and skill. His writing is so good it gave me vertigo.
Rating: 5
Summary: What did you expect?
Comment: It seems like most people out there are reading back from Motherless Brooklyn. IE: Going from a great lush semi-realistic tale to an earlier very lush dreamlike tale. Doesn't seem like people started from the beginning...I loved Amnesia Moon and have read it 3 times over the last few years (Gun I did like more, I reread it about once every year). There is an esence in Lethem's writing that does not escape you from book to book. It's hard to explain. A comfort level between writer style to reader. And his writing style is beyond top notch. These one stars perplex me... I felt the climax in this tale was better than Gun With Occasional Music. Any climax with a talking Banzai tree and grandfather clock that leaves you on the edge of your seat is a book to be reckoned with. If you are looking for a book to hit you over the head with all of the answers to all of it's secrets, then you might be better off looking for Dainelle Steele's or Stephen King's newest.
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazingly original
Comment: This might very well be the most original, head scrathing novel I've ever read. It's a bit like shifting randomly between a set of twilight zone episodes. You know something is quiet abnormal, but you don't get to sit still long enough to figure it all out. I'll just say that if when you were young you asked yourself, "what if I'm just imagining the whole world", and then went on to think, "hmm, what if someone else is just imagining me", then this is the book for you.
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Title: Gun, With Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem ISBN: 0312858787 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: As She Climbed Across the Table (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jonathan Lethem ISBN: 0375700129 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem ISBN: 0375703918 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem ISBN: 0375724834 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye: Stories by Jonathan Lethem ISBN: 0312863535 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 1997 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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