You Don't Love Me Yet

I adore Jonathan Lethem, but I couldn't even finish this book. There's no plot, not enough Letham-esque absurdities, and the characters make no sense. Being Jonathan Letham there are interesting word choices and quotable phrases, but not enough to carry the lack of plot. I missed the heart that his earlier books had.

2.75 average? I loved this story! I thought Jonathan Lethem wrote with an impressive grasp of independent alternative rock and (some overlap) the more pretentious niches of conceptual art. I also like that the protagonists occasionally made themselves difficult to like and that some of the initially repellent characters wound up sympathetic and near-endearing. Read this!

An enjoyable book, but kind of disappointing when compared to “Fortress of Solitude”