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Some of Jonathan Lethem's books, like She Climbed Across the Table, might suit you. It also makes me think of Phillip Dick's work. But these may be more science fiction-y than you want. Hotel by Arthur Hailey
The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The Citadel by Morris West #53 Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem is a vacation in Manhattan, on somebody else's credit card. Very nice. ... Harper Lee
14. Testimony - Anita Shreve
15. Rescue Me - Gigi Levangi Grazer
16. The Associate - John Grisham
17. Amnesia - GH Ephron
18. Beat the Reaper - Josh Bazell
19. While My Sister Sleeps - Barbara Delinsky
20. Water Cooler Diaries - Joni Cole and BK Rakhra
21. Addicti ... #69and #71 - I agree re Lethem. As She Climbed Across the Table is also my favorite - "Lack" is fascinating. Another good Lethem is Girl in a Landscape. I have to share this with other book people. I picked up a signed copy of Jonathan Lethem's Amnesia Moon on Sunday while shopping at the garage sale at Dreamhaven Books
I wasn't expecting the Store to be open, just the Garage so that made it ... A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Mothers and Daughters by Evan Hunter
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles by Jennifer Lee
8. Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem
Well, I've been doing pretty poorly for the last month+, but I did finish Amnesia Moon a while back and just never got around to posting it here. Let's see, I finished it on April 4, so my stats as of then should be...
94 days, 8 books, 3287 pages
pace ... ... whole thing will just count as one book, once I'm finished. But I'm taking a little break for now and I'm going to start Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem. Lethem's early works were out and out SF. It is hard to see Amnesia Moon or Gun With Occasional Music as anything else. He published a fair number of short stories in the SF magazines (Asimov's, F&SF and Interzone in my catalogue alone). One of his stories appears in Intersections : The Syca ... Flags Of Our Fathers by James Bradley
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Life With Father by Clarence Day
Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford
The Godfather by Mario Puzo Savannah Blues by Mary Kay Andrews
I'll Take Manhattan by Judith Krantz
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth
London by Edward Rutherford ... Good Years by Walter B. Lord
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
The Digital Effect by Steve Perry
... Buffalo Creek Disaster by Gerald M. Stern
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Washington, D.C. by Gore Vidal
The House in Amalfi by Elizabeth Adler ... (tbr)
The Thin Place (tbr)
The Soul of Baseball (spring is here: play ball!)
Coach Wooden One-on-One
Beowulf
amnesia moon
Lines and Shadows
...and a few Sports illustrated and Paste magazines ... MUSIC--and I liked it very much. It earned kudos from heavy hitters like James Morrow, Jonathan Carroll and Terry Bisson. AMNESIA MOON was atmospheric but didn't hang together for me. THE WALL OF THE SKY, THE WALL OF THE EYE is an enjoyable mix of short fiction, a lot of it speculative in ... Another day, another post.
Today, I got:
Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem
Getting Over It by Anna Maxted
Lord Vishnu's Love Handles by Will Clarke I've read Motherless Brooklyn, Amnesia Moon and Gun, with Occasional Music, and enjoyed the last two much more than the first ... maybe it's because the writing standards are, frankly, lower in the sci-fi world, but to me, Lethem's more speculative novels stand out further from the sci-fi ... Lethem is a favorite of mine. I think Amnesia Moon is the best of his genre works (it's sort of a surreal post-apocalyptic thingie), but Girl in Landscape and some of the stories in The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye are also excellent. Gun, with Occasional Music is a bit more ... I wouldn't say it's my absolute favorite, but Jonathan Lethem's Amnesia Moon hasn't been mentioned yet and is quite good. The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton
Angry Young Spaceman by Jim Munroe
Amnesia Moon by Johnathan Lethem
Berserk by Kentaro Miura
The Dream Master by Roger Zelanzy
(touchstones for authors done seem to be working for me)
I think his first may be his most genre-identified novel. Or perhaps his Amnesia Moon collection. Others may have an opinion on this:-) More crime/private eye SF books:
Gun, With Occasional Music and Amnesia Moon, by Jonathan Lethem qualify, I think.
9tail Fox, by Jon Courtenay Grimwood is definitely private eye, though it doesn't have much SF in it. His Arabesk books - Pashazade, Effendi and Felaheen - ... ... if I remember rightly at the time of the Irish black and tan war.
Currently in the United States with Jonathan Lethem's Amnesia moon it's okay so far and in Southeast Asia with Tash Aw and his The Harmony Silk Factory--which is so far pretty good. ... by Ishiguro
We3 by Grant Morrison
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
Everything you know is wrong
Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Wolves eat dogs by Martin Cruz Smith
I'll let you go by Bruce Wagner ... about how "firmly" those two fit into noir ... IMHO Gun, with occasional music, along with Lethem's earlier books like Amnesia Moon and Girl in Landscape, really strike me as "Dick-like" (as in Philip K. Dick) ... and I thought Motherless Brooklyn was kind of gimmicky ... of course, ...
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