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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

0 comments By Jonathan Lethem

For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »

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liz-h, April 8, 2007

I have to say that this book left me a bit befuddled. Let me explain that I chose this book for my book group and I was the only one of the six of us to finish the book. This is not typical for my group. The remaining 5 women found the jumping back and forth in time and the numerous characters too difficult to manage. I did finish the book and found the ending to be worth the effort but just barely. The book has many valuable topics and points. However, the characters come and go in different times so quickly that I never felt I had a solid picture in my mind of any of them. For that reason, I was a bit disappointed. I felt the general topic and the setting should have held my attention more completely. Instead, I was forcing myself to continue because I wanted to know why the book had been so well received. I'm aware that I may have missed something here, but I'm a well read, intelligent person and this book just didn't fully live up to my expectations.

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