Christina's review
As She Climbed Across the Table
by Jonathan Lethem
Christina's review
As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem
Christina's review
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2008
Way too "high concept" 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 really sure. They call it "Lack" and its only characteristics are that it accepts and rejects certain objects, with no discernable pattern. A female physicist gets obsessed with Lack to the point that she becomes infatuated with unrequited love for it. This in turn leaves her boyfriend -- a professor of Interdisciplinary Studies -- feeling unrequired love for HER. There are a lot of interesting themes related to love, wanting, couples, etc. And probably a lot of other stuff that goes way over my head. Around that point I got frustrated with how obsessed and irrational all these people were being. I could no longer identify with them as characters; they were symbols of the auth
