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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16718.Gun_with_Occasional_Music?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Gun, with Occasional Music (Harvest Book)" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1166740792m/16718.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16718.Gun_with_Occasional_Music?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Gun, with Occasional Music</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6404.Jonathan_Lethem">Jonathan Lethem</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3951675?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>Okay... so it's science fiction mystery detective noir. Not much competition in that genre. But it manages to be good on all levels, as well as thrilling, funny, gripping, sad, thought-provoking, bittersweet and insane. <br/> <br/>I admit I love Lethem's use of the language to invent a near future that is, weird as it is, not unimaginable. The novel's ambience is perfect and the characters are sympathetic and real (even the evolutionarily-accelerated talking animals) and the plot compelling. The only thing that kept me from giving it a perect score was the remarkably dystopian ending that really let the air out of my tires... <br/> <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/203054?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>