> check out his first book, Gun With
Occasional
>Music which, following a Chandler simile, opens with
a kangaroo in a
>trenchcoat. Now I'm am most definitely not a fan of
books which fuse
>hardboiled with speculative fiction, but this one
works.
I'm not sure that it does, but maybe I was never able to get
past the kangaroo in the trenchcoat. But I'm not a fan of
fantasy and Lethem was unable to make it seem enough like
science to make the blend work for me.
John Lau
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