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Two I'll be chewing through, at least for the next day or two:
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem ... Caveman's Valentine by George Dawes Green
My Name Is Will: A Novel of Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare by Jess Winfield
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell I've finished Motherless Brooklyn and The Hummingbird's Daughter and really enjoyed both these different books.
Can you believe I've never read a single Sue Grafton book? Well, so I found "B" is for Burglar in a used bookstore and picked it up. I'll read that this evening after work. I ... ... could make the seats in economy more comfortable I would even be thrilled getting on a flying tube for 15 hours.
So in Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem, you have Lionel Essrog, an orphan with Tourette's Syndrome, not understanding his affliction and being bullied in school. He meets, ... >90: msf59 : Will do. so far Motherless Brooklyn is pretty interesting. I will post a review when I'm done .. hoping to finish it by tonight.
... the Wind! It's one of my favorite reads of the year. Funny, I was visiting a used book store the other day and picked up Motherless Brooklyn but decided to go with Fortress of Solitude instead. Please let me know what you think! ... and finally Snobbery with Violence by Marion Chesney, a delightfully lighthearted murder mystery.
I'm starting Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem today and I hope to finish it tomorrow so that I can pick up a fresh new book for Tuesday when I have to go on a long transatlantic ... ... Every Secret Thing - Lila Shaara
4. Bitter is the New Black - Jen Lancaster
5. Barefoot - Elin Hilderbrandt
6. Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem
7. Going Down - Jennifer Belle
8. Delusion - Peter Abrahams
9. Here's the Story - Maureen McCormick
10. Teaser - Jan Bro ... ... able to, but change is coming, she can sense it.
This was a new 2006 penguin edition which comes with an introduction by Jonathan Lethem.
Bahaus Tel Aviv: an architectural guide by Nahoum Cohen (2003)
nonfiction
A guide to some of the outstanding bahaus architecture around Tel Aviv ... ... two weeks but forgot to pack it.
Jonathan Lethem's Gun, with Occasional Music is one I might try. I absolutely loved Motherless Brooklyn a few years ago, but the next one I tried didn't click with me so I haven't read anything else by him.
Thanks for all the advice--this should help me ... ... by Claire Messud
Julie and Julia (2009) by Julie Powell (my least favourite this year)
Motherless Brooklyn (years ago) by Jonathan Lethem
The Chosen(years ago) by Chaim Potok
Wisconsin - American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
I'm sure ... ... McCafferty
New Mexico
New York
Fiction: Field of Darkness by Cornelia Read (Syracuse)
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem (Brooklyn, NYC)
Non-Fiction: Dissecting Death by Frederick Zugibe ... The Da Vinci Code and writing by Janet Evanovich.
Some of the things I've considered recommending so far include: Motherless Brooklyn, The Coffee Trader, Kitchen Confidential, Water for Elephants and Into Thin Air.
Do these sound about right? Any recommendations would be ... ... books rather than an anthology one of these days.
Flossie - I have to say, I didn't have high hopes really, but I loved Motherless Brooklyn. Lethem took characters that could easily have been caricatures (petty mobsters) and made them come alive.
32. Abraham Lincoln by James McPherson ... One of the things I didn't point out in my comments on Motherless Brooklyn is the way that Lethem brings Brooklyn to life. It really plays the role of another character in the novel. I hope you enjoy it when you read it!
31. New and Selected Poems: Volume One by Mary Oliver
I'm not a ... 30. Motherless Brooklyn by Jonatham Lethem A study of character and place in the clothing of a mystery. Lionel Essrog has Tourette's and lives his life as a "freakshow" in the gang of a small time hood who he looks up to like a father. When his boss/mentor is killed, Lionel sets off to ... I loved Motherless Brooklyn, my first Lethem. I'm about 30 or 40 pages into Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem. Pretty intriguing so far. 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
... Nobel Prize for Literature?
I haven't the foggiest idea.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
Motherless Brooklyn. Edward Norton's been on the project for years now, but for some reason it has yet to progress out of the pre-production stage.
12) What book would ... ... avorites
-Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan
-Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
-Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
-The World According to Garp by John Irving
-A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Also have to agree with those who ... How about Jonathan Lethem: Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude
for contemporary writers and then the classics: Henry James, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf.....so many! ... much searching I finally found a (singed!) French edition, and I'm delighted with this beautiful and sad little book.
5. Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem
A fun mystery. I enjoyed the ways in which Lethem played with language.
- Little Red Riding Hood, Charles Perrault & Sarah Moon ( ... ... my questions or respond to my comments. :-)
Although our reading tastes have only a little overlap (we both love Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem, however!) we have a lot in common in how we approach our reading with its joys and frustrations. I plan on keeping this book to ... ... my questions or respond to my comments. :-)
Although our reading tastes have only a little overlap (we both love Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem, however!) we have a lot in common in how we approach our reading with its joys and frustrations. I plan on keeping this book to ... 069. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco 03/02/09
070. Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem 03/03/09 ... /09
068. The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier 02/28/09
069. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco 03/02/09
070. Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem 03/03/09 ... much searching I finally found a (singed!) French edition, and I'm delighted with this beautiful and sad little book.
5. Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem
A fun mystery. I enjoyed the ways in which Lethem played with language.
- Little Red Riding Hood, Charles Perrault & Sarah Moon ( ... Motherless Brooklyn features Tourettes. Check the reviews though, as I'm not sure if that's the kind of book you're looking for. It's in my TBR closet but I haven't read it yet. ... (5 of 5 stars)
May 2009
31. New and Selected Poems: Volume One by Mary Oliver (4 of 5 stars)
30. Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem (4.5 of 5 stars)
29. Foreskin's Lament by Shalom Auslander (4 of 5 stars)
28. My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylo ... ... Matter {5/13}
5. Auster: Brooklyn Follies {1/29}, Man in the Dark {5/2}, Travels in Scriptorium {5/19}
6. Lethem: Motherless Brooklyn {3/3}, The Fortress of Solitude {4/11}, Gun, with Occasional Music {5/20}
7. Turgenev: The Diary of a Superfluous Man {4/29}, First Love {5/12}, ... ... in From the Cold, by John Le Carre
Cold Sassy Tree, by Olice Ann Burns
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem
Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling, by David Wolman Sometimes he needed just one of us.
Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem I agree that PG Wodehouse is perfect and Motherless Brooklyn was excellent in audio format. I have also found that classics work well in audio format because the language flows easily, where as the print can sometimes trip you up as you adjust to it.
David Sedaris reads all of his own ... ... March by E. L. Doctorow
2.Atonement by Ian McEwan
3.Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
4.Being Dead by Jim Crace
5.Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
6.The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
7.The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
8.Women in Their Beds: New and Selected ... Motherless Brooklyn has a man with Turret's Syndrome as the narrator. It is one of the most original mysteries I have read in decades. 80. The Antipope by Robert Rankin.
Alcottacre: I liked Motherless Brooklyn. Actually, I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about it. It had been recommended to me by a friend who raved and raved about it. Perhaps my expectations were way too high. I liked it and thought it ... ... finally picked it up. Like you, I devoured it in 2 days--working days, at that!
If you like that book you might like Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem. This one is about an adult with Tourette's syndrome who works for a minor mobster--a mystery of sorts. But a cut above the usual ... 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 #189 alaskabookworm: What did you think of Motherless Brooklyn? It looks pretty good! 78. The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier.
79. Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem. In fiction, my favorites are:
The Alienist
Antonio's Wife
Metropolis
The Best of Everything
Motherless Brooklyn
The Bell Jar
The Interpretation of Murder
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The House of Mirth
Nonfiction:
The Gangs of New York
Honky
A Pickpocket's Tale
7 ... The 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 #158 cameling
OOOOOH! I hope you like Motherless Brooklyn! I read it a few years ago on the advice of my son--and it is one I will definitely read again. I tried a couple of Lethem's other books but couldn't get into them, but this one is on my all time favorites list and I think is ... ... my disappointment over the book with the missing pages, I was delighted to receive The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields and Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem and they were both in impeccable condition. You can't see it, but I'm doing a little happy dance I read Motherless Brooklyn recently and enjoyed it. Having some connections with Maine and Brooklyn, the sense of place was fun. As with the case of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, the author did an interesting job of representing the brain disorders.
I am reading The Unbe ... ... Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Obviously not a typical mystery, but I really enjoyed it.
Has anybody read Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem? We read it a few years ago for one of my mystery groups, and I thought it was great. However, several people in the group had ... Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Close Relations by Susan Isaacs 54. Motherless Brooklyn ... by Jonathan Lethem
Four ophans are "adopted" by a small-time gangster who starts off with a running a car service in Brooklyn. The protagonist, Lionel Essrog, is one of the four and has Tourettic symptoms. Lionel ends up trying to solve a couple of murders and ... ... written book that takes place in Tibet
The Continental Op, actually a collection of short stories by Dashiell Hammett
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Doyle
The Black Goatee by Constance & Gwenyth Little, an absolutely delightful ... ... by Steven Millhauser
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Rumpole and the Angel of Death by John Mortimer
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Score!
#87: Lethem's one of my favorites, and can easily recommend The Fortress of Solitude and the great Motherless Brooklyn too. ... Cunningham won the Pulitzer for The Hours, Ha Jin the NBA for Waiting, and Jonathan Lethem's cross-genre masterpiece Motherless Brooklyn won the NBCC prize. Others that arrived in '99: Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, Kingsolver's awesome The Poisonwood Bible, Kent Haruf's Plainsong ... ... History of Western Art), a few really aren't what you'd think of as textbooks -- such as the Iliad and Motherless Brooklyn. Textbook-ness depends on what's on the syllabus, not just how the book's organized.
One thing that bugs me (pekala_ in 50 Book Challenge : pekala_'s reading list (Feb 26, 2008, 3:51pm) I finished reading Sex and the City a few weeks ago, and since I've began reading Death on the Nile and Motherless Brooklyn, but haven't finished any.
I'm currently reading Frankestein, by Mary Shelley, and so far it's really good.
I expected more from Sex and the City, since I' ... ... awards to any of the threads in this group (please).
I've read three of the above listed novels, Silence of the Grave, Motherless Brooklyn, and Resurrection Men and thought them all excellent. ... Walters
2002 The Athenian Murders by Jose Carlos Somoza
2001 Sidetracked by Henning Mankell
2000 Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem 6. Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
I slipped way off pace with this one, even though it was a fantastic read. But I reached the two-thirds point sometime yesterday and by then I was pretty much sucked in.
Six books in 62 days puts me on pace for 35.42 books in a year. Lionel Essr ... ... Trollope. I recommend Barchester Towers.
(and for fyrefly, I was about to recommend The Fortress of Solitude or Motherless Brooklyn both by Jonathan Lethem. He's cool.) ... 5
So it took eight days to finish that one. I'm at five books in 47 days, on pace for 38.94 books.
I'm going to start Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem. I've been looking forward to reading this book for a while, but I'm skittish about taking my copy on plane flights or vacations ... --> 26
I second your remark about Frank Muller's reading of Motherless Brooklyn!
P.S. Sadly, Frank Muller was severely injured in a 2001 motorcycle accident and was never able to resume his acting/recording career.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_muller 16. Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
17. Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky
18. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
19. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
20. The Magus by John Fowles
21. Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
22. King Lear (New Folger L ... ... Nature by Joy Williams
5. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
6. Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
7. Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
8. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
9. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
10. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
... I've only read Motherless Brooklyn so far, and I loved it. I own several of his other books, including a galley of Gun, with Occasional Music. If he's to be a Readercon GoH, that gives me the perfect reason to move that book up in the reading queue. 44.Post Office-Charles Bukowski
45.Labryinths-Jorge Luis Borges
46.Motherless Brooklyn-Johnathan Lethem 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 ... ... by Andrey Kurkov. It's a great book, noir-ish, about a man, a penguin, and the Russian mafia. Reminded me a bit of Motherless Brooklyn.
Then I picked up The Conjurer's Bird and I was so disappointed I could have thrown the book. It's got multiple plots in multiple eras, like Posse ... ... sentences, and New York is very much like a main character in the book.
Books like The Bonfire of the Vanities, Motherless Brooklyn and The Alienist all spring to mind, as well. ... Bradfield's Dream of the Wolf.
The Modern Library paperback re-issue has an excellent intro by Jonathan Lethem (his Motherless Brooklyn was brilliant) and a short but interesting afterword by the author. I've read Girl in Landscape, Motherless Brooklyn, and Fortress of Solitude. Motherless and Fortress are more mainstream than anything else he has written, but he definitely jumps in and out of genre, a bit like Chabon and Saunders in that respect.
Hope I'm here for next year's con. As yes, jmgold, Motherless Brooklyn is a mystery but I think not a standard formulaic mystery:-) I, too, enjoyed this, Girl in Landscape and As She Climbed Across the Table. He seems to be the kind of the author who prefers NOT to write the same book every time. And he does seem to love to ... ... marketed toward the genre, although it's not one of his better books. I loved As She Climbed Across the Table and Motherless Brooklyn is one of my favorite books, although it is a mystery. 23. Motherless Brooklyn I liked the premise, but the main characters Tourettes kind of bugged me. Although it did impact the story it sometimes got in the way I thought. I am still trying to decide how much I liked this book, but I think I could recommend it to someone who doesn't already have a ... ... cleaning my entire house including the oven.
man, I feel good about myself today!
The books were Walking the Rez Road, Motherless Brooklyn and Back when we were grownups.
I just started The curious incident of the dog in the night-time.
So I have gone from a book with Tourettes to one ... ... to include books. I am currently reading Back when we were grownups byanne tyler and Walking the rez road, and Motherless Brooklyn and one that is something like Lies my teacher told me: everything yourAmerican history text book got wrong which is pretty dry going. It is my car ... Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem I finished Motherless Brooklyn, which was great as an audiobook because the main character has Tourette's Syndrome.
I started Agnes Grey, by the only Bronte sister I haven't read.
I'm also finsihing up Something Wicked This Way Comes.
It's been a good reading week. ...
13. Pride and Prejudice -- Jane Austen
14. The Sea -- John Banville
15. Marx for Beginners -- Rius
16. Motherless Brooklyn -- Jonathan Lethem
April
17. Suite Francaise -- Irene Nemirovsky
18. A Wrinkle in Time -- Madeleine L'Engle
19. O Pioneers! -- ... ... and Guildenstern Are Dead, and The Princess Bride, as much as I did. They are both wonderfully funny.
I'm reading Motherless Brooklyn, an LT recommendation. I finished American Pastoral which had some great description in it, but wasn't an immediate favorite of mine. Still reading Pa ... ... Prebble read anything yet.
As I've posted elsewhere, my vote for #1 audiobook performance goes to Frank Muller reading Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem. He got the Tourette's outbursts letter perfect. My cousin read the print book, and loved it, but I don't think that would be nearly ... ... Lethem to me. He moves a story with verbs rather than modifiers. My teacher gave me Fortress of Solitude, then I read Motherless Brooklyn and both were great. I'm looking forward to reading his new one, You Don't Love Me Yet.
So, who do you suggest aspiring writers should read? Why ... --> 98
By all means, read Motherless Brooklyn next, but don't miss his book of short stories call Men and Cartoons. Some of those stories are just great!
Jonathan Lethem will be at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington DC, on Thursday, March 29, 2007 at 7pm.
Here's the link ... ... soon too, and though most of the reviews of it have been lukewarm, I read everything he writes and think you'll really like Motherless Brooklyn if you give it a shot. ... along. So far it is a quick, light read. My first try with this author - looks like he is worth exploring. I do have Motherless Brooklyn on my shelf. ... and the air smelled of burning children."
Gone South - Robert McCammon
And the entire opening paragraph from Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
"Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in ... ... Christ lost his sandals."
And just to throw a book in here I've always liked a like from Jonathon Lethem's book Motherless Brooklyn. I can't remember the name of the character but he would say to his underlings "Tell your story walking." ... order:
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
1776 by David McCullough
Being Dead ... ... entry point for Lethem, as he does no more than re-sketch several themes from his prior books, but Seajack got it right, Motherless Brooklyn truly is a brilliant book, and so is Gun, With Occasional Music, and my personal favorite The Fortress of Solitude. I certainly will give Motherless Brooklyn a try, Seajack! Thanks for letting me know about it. Have you read Men and Cartoons? I would be interested to hear how you think it compares.... Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem from Motherless Brooklyn by jonathan lethem:
"my life story to this point:
The teacher looked at me like I was crazy.
The social services worker looked at me like i was crazy.
The boy looked at me like i was crazy and then hit me.
The girl looked at me like i was crazy.
The woman ... Bookishbunny, I'd have to agree with you on A Thousand Acres. My favorite NBCC award novels are: The Known World, Motherless Brooklyn, and Atonement. I really didn't care for Gilead and never finished it. ... patterns, accents or emotional dialogue/monologue scenes. One of the best jobs at this was Frank Muller's reading of Motherless Brooklyn - he got Lionel's tics so perfectly that I didn't at first even recognize his voice (and I've heard dozens by Muller).
Give them a try - you just ... ... a handful of the really great writers of our time, and while others might make a case for Gun, with Occasional Music or Motherless Brooklyn, I think The Fortress of Solitude is truly his magnus opus so far. It's certainly not a book for everyone, particularly if you're not interested in ... Am listening to Motherless Brooklyn as done by Frank Muller (Recorded Books) and his reading cracks me up. He "does" Lionel perfectly - the verbal ticks are a riot. Although I'm probably laughing where I shouldn't be. Can't be helped.
This morning I started Motherless Brooklyn as narrated by Frank Muller. The way he has altered his voice and speech patterns to fit the character's Tourette's disorder is truly exceptional. He made me laugh out loud a couple of times. I have a feeling this is going to be a good one. ... that big "gimmicky" whole with the old "avenging the death of a partner" cliche.
Not arguing against your opinion of Motherless Brooklyn, mind you, although I don't agree. I just really dislike the "gimmick" argument when it comes to entertainment criticism. ... 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, when you really think about it, a fair amount of Dick's work could almost be considered surrealist noir, if you will. ... ... that fall firmly into the noir catagory, Gun, with Occasional Music which is a great sci-fi twist on the genre, and Motherless Brooklyn, a straight detective whodunit where the avenging gumshoe suffers from severe Tourette syndrome. Anybody read this, and if so, what did you think?
Als ...
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