Naomi wrote:
> After reading it, I gave free play to my imagination
and enjoyed feeling
of a
> dinosaur's member. It was fun.
There's a humorous rejoinder here, somewhere...
Kevin wrote:
> Leaving quality aside, for a moment, I think you do
MOTHERLESS
> BROOKLYN a disservice to lump it in with the other
books.
I liked the book a lot, and I meant Lethem no disrespect
either by lumping him in with the other books or by my
misremembering the title as "Anonymous Brooklyn." I just
meant that the detective-with-Tourette's thing, no matter how
well Lethem handles it (and he does so very well), could be
seen as another addition to the subgenre of what I like to
think of as "Chandler Bizarre" - not an SF/PI mix, but
twisting the PI genre in bizarre ways, in line with the
deconstruction/irony type of writing that is the stock in
trade of many Generation X novelists, Lethem included. It's
not a science-fiction thing per se, but the kind of
speculation involved there lends itself well to this subgenre
and so a lot of the books I'd throw together in this
particular corral can be found on the racks of your local
Android's Dungeon store. (And if I'm totally off-base, I did
qualify my original statement by saying "if you want to think
of it that way.")
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