I was just thinking something like this about the last book I read, Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn. There are some stunning reveals, and some marvelous moments when the reader is just half a step ahead of the detective and wants to reach in to warn him. The narrator has Tourette's Syndrome, which provides some laugh-until-snorting moments, and those will never be quite as potent on a subsequent read.
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Date: 2008-05-21 04:08 am (UTC)