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Nice review: you've done a great job of clearly delineating how and why the novel is so boring. I wanted to like Chronic City but I couldn't even finish it...it's one of the few books I've abandoned with fewer than a 100 pages left. On the heels of You Don't Love Me Yet it seems like Lethem's on a real losing streak.
Commented Apr 29, 2010 on Detecting a Wrongness at The Reading Experience
Detecting a Wrongness
In his review of Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City, Hari Kunzru maintains that what separates this novel from the postmodern novels Lethem clearly admires is that "it’s too good-humored to attain real satiric bite and is often content to drop a name instead of wrestling with the slippery ideas that...
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