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Title: What happened to editing?
Review: This book is everything in the kitchen sink and more. It lacks narrative structure, fluidity, restraint, cohesion. It seems Lethem found himself drowning in material and lost focus. The second half of the book falls completely to pieces. The choices the author made verge on the ludicrous. Critics may call it post-modern, but post-modern is not synonymous with messy. Sure Lethem mixes genres, but is that really a virtue? Only if the result stands on its own as something unique and compelling, and this does not. The book does hold together and does not deserve the praise its been getting. The excerpt in the New Yorker was the best part. Read that and save yourself the expense of buying the book.
