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Title: Overwrought
Review: I'm a big Chabon fan and have read most if not all of his stuff. I loved Mysteries of Pittsburg and liked Adventures of Cavalier and Clay a lot. "The Final Solution" seems more deserving of a New Yorker article than a full publication. He's playing with the detective genre and formalizing his style - I get it. But to me it's like a jazz musician blowing fast and furious non-stop, showing us his chops but forgetting to give us some dynamics and contrast.Too much wordsmithing and fancy-pants writing here for me. I actually got 99 pages of the total 120 somehing pages, and I put it down. Ouch. It seems like Chabon needs to just let it flow sometimes and get out of his own head. The critics seem to love it, but this was totally unsatisfying for me..
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