Title: Good ideas, but VERY loose ends...sigh.
Review: It is a shame really. I picked up this book for a single dollar at a discount bookstore, and although I thought that the read was quick, interesting, and sucked you into the lives of the characters, I really would *not* recommend this book to anyone. The book, hardcover, is a stunted 247 pages. What it needed was an ENDING. I was in the last 50 pages wondering, like I usually do, "Okay...here's where it all comes together...where he/she/it/they do such-and-such to cure the ills of the world, or at least to escape." But no such escape is possible, for the ending not only left EVERY character hanging on by some macabre silken string from a tapestry poorly woven, but also never really concluded. It was like Lethem fell asleep, and never bothered to write the last chapter. Well, I fell asleep, too. Sorry, Jonathan, but no more reading your work for me until you wake up.
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