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    <body><![CDATA[There was a ten- or twenty-year period when literary fiction writers started to pay <em>a lot</em> of attention to science writing: Stoppard read Gleick's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11003.Eleven_on_Top_A_Stephanie_Plum_Novel_" title="Eleven on Top (A Stephanie Plum Novel) by Janet Evanovich">Chaos</a> and wrote <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/384597.Arcadia_A_Play" title="Arcadia  A Play by Tom Stoppard">Arcadia</a>; Richard Powers boned up on his Turing and wrote <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23001.Galatea_2_2_A_Novel" title="Galatea 2.2  A Novel by Richard Powers">Galatea 2.2</a>; and so on. This was well after the seventy-five-year drought that wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30055112">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a thoroughly good novel. As irritated as pseudoscience usually makes me, Lethem did a good job of not taking it seriously enough for me to want to strangle him. Plus some of it was kind of cool - the idea of using nerve-blind people as a unique kind of observer, for example. I wish the book...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2494843">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like this bit: &quot;Talk was hopeless. We smiled apologetically, while our words went spilling like platefuls of barbecue sauce onto a white dress in a detergent ad, comical slow-motion disaster.&quot;<br/><br/>This book is entertaining. I am entertained.<br/><br/>But, seriously, dialogue tag...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54934336">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jonathan Lethem's <em>As She Climbed Across the Table</em> is two books in one: a parable about love and obsession, and a sharp satire of academia.  It is narrated by Phillip Engstrand, a sociology professor who talks entirely too much.  Phillip tells us the story of Lack, a hole in the universe opened by an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21860840">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not one of those people who read every book by my favorite authors, although I probably should. Having loved both 'Motherless Brooklyn' and 'Fortress of Solitude' (and I seriously mean loved), I really couldn't resist this post-modern love story with Lethem's attendant literary trickery.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28964876">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[awesome. academia novel, with strange post-human elements and an anti-critical tone. and a void called Lack that is at one point likened to a vagina, and a gynecologist who calls himself a vagina ecologist. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I lack (ah har har) the words to describe how fantastic this is.<br/><br/>The plot of a possibly intelligent empty space is interesting enough.  The fabulous wordplay and writing is delightful.  But best of all, it is a sweet, adorable story of a love triangle between a man, a woman, and a spacial...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30666944">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lethem's love affair with science fiction is fascinating. While he has never quite returned to his full-on, genre enmeshed works since <u>Gun, With Occasional Music</u>, many of his books seem to have a slight science fiction flavor that allows for a different view of his characters.<br/><br/><u>As She Clim...</u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75499651">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this book on a whim, when I saw that Lethem was the author (I loved &quot;Motherless Brooklyn&quot;) and it was on sale.  I read it quickly (it's short) but I found the characters fairly uninteresting.  The book's plot is intriguing (a woman falls in love with her physics experiment; her bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66764051">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a must-read book. Si algo caracteriza a Lethem (en el mundo de sylvia) es el humor, el sutil humor con que se maneja. Un habilidoso de la narrativa, con diálogos que lo hacen que uno suelte una carcajada y todo mundo te mire dentro del carro, en tu oficina o en el consultorio del dentista....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66013129">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quirky story.... is it physics or sci fi? or is just an odd, often silly, sometimes annoying, story of a jerk of a guy who loses his girl to a physics experiment.... to a 'black hole' of sorts.... to a parallel universe.... And is she, supposedly a physicist, actually in love with this void, dubbed ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38248163">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I felt totally pummeled by all the sciencey metaphors. I understand that this is po-mo science fiction book, especially after being introduced to a man-made physical nothing or &quot;Lack&quot; within the first few chapters, so I don't need to have everything equated with or compared to quarks, quas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76780865">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a fun little book, especially after all of the 500-plus page monsters I've been reading lately.  I picked it up because the idea of a science-based novel appealed to me, but that's not really what this is - it's more of a parody of university life, played out through the main character's lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75055028">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Way too &quot;high concept&quot; for my taste.  The premise is inventive and intriguing, but overall I didn't care enough about the characters to feel invested in whatever happens to them.  The story is that a physicist's experiment creates something new -- a new universe, a black hole, no one is re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22103669">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A quick two-day break from <em>Ulysses</em> because I didn't want to lug it around by bike last Monday, and was way too underslept for Joyce today.<br/><br/><em>As She Climbed Across the Table</em> is the most and least science-ish of the early quartet of Lethem science fiction novels before he redefined himself wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15504456">more...</a>]]></body>
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