
Motherless Brooklyn
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Narrated by:
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Geoffrey Cantor
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By:
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Jonathan Lethem
Now a major motion picture from Warner Bros. Starring Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, and Willem Dafoe
From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel.
Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable.
When Frank is fatally stabbed, Lionel's world is suddenly turned upside down, and this outcast who has trouble even conversing attempts to untangle the threads of the case, while trying to keep the words straight in his head.
A compulsively involving a and totally captivating homage to the classic detective tale.
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Reading performance is really good.
Top notch audiobook: novel and performance both A+
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I wish there were a sequel!
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Good detective story.
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It was nothing like the movie
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overall, a winner
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Simply great.
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Look fair weather readers, I like Lethem (see four stars?...I couldn't stop at three), just like I like Chabon. Actually, almost exactly like I like Chabon. There is a certain dance, jig, and Brooklyn-hipster style to both their writing, complete with their shared fetishes (comic books, vinyl chairs, bad hair, crappy cars, carnival food, odd screwballs). They seem to be barycentric binaries or orbs orbiting the same point in space; two vultures circling the same diseased zip code of literary space-time. So, yes, I enjoyed it. But also felt like I was robbed a bit, like a bit of the potential for this novel got skimmed off into some dark, back-room, and I was left holding less than a royal flush. I was treated to a comic when I wanted a novel, a girl when I wanted a woman, a joke when I wanted a koan.
Egg-sandwich surprise, hardboilded detective novel
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The synopsis says it's a detective novel. It's starts out a little slow on the "detective" side. That's one of the reasons I am glad I listened instead of trying to read it. I don't think I would have stayed with it long enough to get hooked. The other reason I am glad I listened to the audiobook is, the narrator is phenomenal.
The main character has tourette's syndrome. The way the narrator perform all of the main characters ticks and outbursts is far, far better than I would have in my own head. I wouldn't even know how to read it.
Once the story got to the "whodunnit" part of it, it hooked me right away.
One of the best audiobook performances I have hear
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Haunting and brilliant
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Fantastic!
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