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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;You wonder to know whether you can stand never to know the touch of a fresh hand, the trembling flavor of a new kiss, and I'm desperately trying to keep from telling you the little I know: it's sweeter than anything, for a moment. For just a moment, there's nothing else. As to all you're weigh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47916807">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Review of Jonathan Lethem’s Men and Cartoons. New York: Vintage Contemporaries (Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc.), 2004. <br/><br/>Having spent my adult life in graduate student vagabondage—the greasy, global beggary of mostly middle-class kids who grew up in the 70s—I feel I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18294871">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In Jonathan Lethem’s home of Brooklyn, New York, on 5th Avenue, there lives a reassuringly odd, tough-looking store called Brooklyn Superhero Supply. Set, when I first saw it, along a row of graying or graffitied businesses, Superhero Supply (”Ever vigilant, ever true”) features “fully servi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17156110">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Men And Cartoons is a mishmash of uncomfortably real and uncomfortably speculative short stories that emerge from author Lethem's apparently infinite wellspring of neurosis.  the author's highly consistent tone applies itself to a very diverse collection of stories, each stemming from an Interesting...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13691154">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is really good.  The writing is light and easy, and his ideas are fun to chew on.  The book really is about men and cartoons: our ideas and the silly-looking but deadly-serious shapes they take, and what we do because of them.  The dystopianist story boils it down: our utopias make the real wor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12849241">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[+ Deft characterizations, deadpan delivery of outlandish premises, fun cover art<br/><br/>- There's not much wrong with it. The last story seems weak as an anchor for the collection.<br/><br/>This is my 4th Lethem and the most delightful short story collection I've read recently. Lethem's focus ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5547707">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Picked up the hardcover in Toronto for $8, read it during one bleary all-nighter in a diner.  Brief, intense, kind of weird.  Lethem's better at short stories than I would have guessed - he seemed more like the kind of guy who needs the room to stretch out that a novel would have provided.  Some of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39687362">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a little conflicted on this, because Lethem's obviously really talented, and has a voice of his own (even if he and Chabon seem to be cut from similar cloths), and I feel this was a good introduction to him for me, but I still wonder if I'm not missing something by reading one his sprawling nove...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33865409">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I always like to have a book of short stories with me to supplement whatever I'm reading. This collection of Letham's work isn't as satisfying as his novels, and I found that some of the stories where not as fleshed out or ended too abruptly. But there where some awesome gems in there as well. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lethem’s latest, a collection of nine surreal short stories – example, a critique of the Baby Boomer generation with boomers represented as an aging superhero named Super Goat Man (half man, half goat) who becomes a professor at a quaint New England liberal arts college.  The bulk of the stories...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12116811">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's hard not to think that Jonathan Lethem is the dude I'd want to be if I could think bigger-picture.  He's got a brilliant way with words (to wit, this line from &quot;The Fortress of Solitude&quot;: &quot;Mingus Rude was a world, an exploding bomb of possibilities&quot;).  He seems to love the M...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30528072">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[his style/sensibility doesn't quite sit right with me for some reason, but i did like a few stories more than the rest. and imagine my shock to open it and the first story takes place on the very block where i now live (and sat reading it)!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After all the Johnathan Lethem books that my friend David has given me, the first one I've sat down to read is one I bought myself - at Book Passage in Corte Madera (when I went to get copies of <strong>Are You There Vodka?...</strong> for Cyndi and Kristi).<br/><br/>Anyway, I liked it.  He has a fun, quirky style...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24821240">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bite-size Lethem! A perfect collection of short works that demonstrate his breadth of range and distinct, consistent voice.]]></body>
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