false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173894286m/341541.jpg 16718 13 1119922 book 1994 Gun, with Occasional Music (Harvest Book) total:1836|5:399|4:757|3:543|2:113|1:24| 1836 6902 2476 224 341541 0312858787 9780312858780 134 25 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173894286m/341541.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341541.Gun_With_Occasional_Music_A_Novel 4 6 false Fri Jul 18 17:25:39 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 25 16:44:26 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 18 17:25:39 -0700 2008 Gun, With Occasional Music, Jonathan Lethem gives us science fiction's worthy successor to Raymond Chandler. Though this is the easy take-home message from nearly every quoted newspaper columnist, book jacket blurb, and miscellaneous reviewer -- they also all happen to be right. Even a cursory ...more...]]> 577292 0571225047 9780571225040 32 6 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175959771m/577292.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/577292.Gun_with_Occasional_Music 5 3 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 07 08:07:45 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 22 19:24:18 -0700 2007 more...]]> 16718 0156028972 9780156028974 1605 177 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1222918678m/16718.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16718.Gun_with_Occasional_Music 4 3 false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Sat Sep 01 13:17:57 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 01 13:21:47 -0700 2007
Conrad Metcalf is our narrator, a Private Inquisitor in a world where direct questions are considered rude and question marks are flashy punctuation. The story's fil...more...]]> 16718 0156028972 9780156028974 1605 177 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1222918678m/16718.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16718.Gun_with_Occasional_Music 4 2 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 07:42:58 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 08:01:51 -0700 2008
The story ...more...]]> 16718 0156028972 9780156028974 1605 177 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1222918678m/16718.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16718.Gun_with_Occasional_Music 3 2 false Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 23:48:12 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 12:08:07 -0700 2009
But first, a curiosity: this is the second off-beat mystery novel set in Oakland that I've read recently. Th...more...]]> 16718 0156028972 9780156028974 1605 177 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1222918678m/16718.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16718.Gun_with_Occasional_Music 5 1 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 18 18:56:19 -0800 2007 Fri Jan 11 22:23:42 -0800 2008 more...]]> 16718 0156028972 9780156028974 1605 177 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1222918678m/16718.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16718.Gun_with_Occasional_Music 4 1 false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 01 22:44:45 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 01 22:52:59 -0700 2007
I admit I love Lethem's use of the language to invent a near future...more...]]> 16718 0156028972 9780156028974 1605 177 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1222918678m/16718.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16718.Gun_with_Occasional_Music 1 1 false Sat Jan 09 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Sat Apr 12 09:47:21 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 12 12:30:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 16718 0156028972 9780156028974 1605 177 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1222918678m/16718.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16718.Gun_with_Occasional_Music 3 0 false Mon Jul 13 15:31:27 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 15:43:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 16718 0156028972 9780156028974 1605 177 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1222918678m/16718.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16718.Gun_with_Occasional_Music 4 0 false Fri Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 19:08:30 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 19:24:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 16718 0156028972 9780156028974 1605 177 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1222918678m/16718.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16718.Gun_with_Occasional_Music 3 0 false Sat Dec 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 21:12:21 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 21:28:31 -0800 2008 more...]]> 16718 0156028972 9780156028974 1605 177 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1222918678m/16718.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16718.Gun_with_Occasional_Music 4 1 false Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 17:13:01 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 09:45:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 16718 0156028972 9780156028974 1605 177 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1222918678m/16718.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16718.Gun_with_Occasional_Music 3 0 false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 30 08:28:02 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 08:43:54 -0800 2008 The Noir plot was pretty straightforward, with a nice twist of irony waiting at the end, and Lethem makes good use of a time-warp to solve a number of the usual...more...]]> 16718 0156028972 9780156028974 1605 177 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1222918678m/16718.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16718.Gun_with_Occasional_Music 3 1 false Fri Dec 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 28 13:25:18 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 04 22:03:42 -0800 2009 Gun, With Occasional Music, may not be the Magnum opus that gave him fame and credibility, but it sure is entertaining.

Conrad Metcalf is a P.I. in a land where only certain people are allowed to ask questions, so when a man comes to him claiming to be fra...more...]]> 16718 0156028972 9780156028974 1605 177 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1222918678m/16718.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16718.Gun_with_Occasional_Music 2 1 false Wed Jan 16 14:24:53 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 16 14:27:43 -0800 2008 more...]]> 16718 0156028972 9780156028974 1605 177 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1222918678m/16718.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16718.Gun_with_Occasional_Music 0 0 false Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 15:55:24 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 13:58:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 826590 0340632259 9780340632253 10 3 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178727477m/826590.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/826590.Gun_with_Occasional_Music 4 1 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Fri Jul 13 22:46:42 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 13 22:54:07 -0700 2007 577292 0571225047 9780571225040 32 6 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175959771m/577292.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/577292.Gun_with_Occasional_Music 3 1 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 05 06:26:18 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 06 11:05:54 -0700 2007 Motherless Brooklyn was better. The pace of the mystery here felt uneven, and I wasn't very interested in the plot, more in the characters.]]> 826589 0151364583 9780151364589 24 6 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256020920m/826589.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/826589.Gun_with_Occasional_Music 4 0 false Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 15:47:23 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 14:19:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 341541 0312858787 9780312858780 134 25 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173894286m/341541.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341541.Gun_With_Occasional_Music_A_Novel 4 0 true Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 07:39:27 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 10 07:35:47 -0700 2009
I like twisty, noir-ish mysteries and hard...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=341541