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Different from the movie. Tourette's and guilt are the same thing . . . Lethem does warped detective novels well.
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Uuuf. This novel did not resonate with me and by the time I was halfway through, it had become a taxing chore to keep reading (in hindsight I should have abandoned ship). The narrator's Tourettic dialogue and compulsions were intriguing at first, but like so many of the characters who interact with Lionel, I quickly found myself annoyed by the wordplay, silently urging the story to get on with it. As far as the plot, it felt convoluted and haphazard without the "aha!" moments that mystery lovers
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I had picked this novel up a number of times the past couple of years and just could not get into it. When I saw the trailer for the movie, with Edward Norton playing the part of Essrog, well that was the motivation that I needed to read the book before seeing the movie. I will be curious to see if the movie is able to be interesting and not focus on the Tourettes as the book was able to do. The tics were just a part of Lionel and even though I felt sympathy for the character, the syndrome was n
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