Motherless Brooklyn

I just finished up Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem.  It had been on my "to read" list for a while now -- I'm not sure why, but I had heard it was supposed to be good.  And it was!

This isn't my usual genre -- I guess you would call it a detective story, but there was a lot more to it.  It's got it's share of gangsters, murder and mystery, and it also has Lionel Essrog -- the main character who suffers from Tourette's syndrome.  I'm not sure I would have picked it up if I had known it was a detective novel, but I'm glad I crossed that line because this book is really more about Lionel than anything.  The character development and dialog are engaging and kept me reading while the plot kept things interesting.

I think I'll be putting Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude on my "to read" list now.

So what's up next?  Special Topics in Calamity Physics a debut novel by Marisha Pessl.

Comments

[Natalia]

I've read a couple of his books. I have stuck to his more futuristic stuff, and I really enjoyed "Gun, With Occasional Music" and "Amnesia Moon"

[--Deb]

Hey, did I tell you that I finished the original Otori trilogy yesterday? Highly enjoyable, though I still think book #1 was my favorite....