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#Gunshot #NoFemmeber I know, I know, another Lethem. But I think this one is underappreciated: a private eye in a dystopian society with walking & talking animals as suspects? It's funny as hell, yet doesn't skimp on the mystery. Lykke Li's dark music might make a good soundtrack to Nordic noir, but maybe more for the grieving family moments than the mystery parts. Her songs really capture the catharsis you find in pain, just like the best books.

This is the first book that came to mind with notable #punctuation in the title.

Yes, that is a kangaroo in a suit, and yes, you should read this weirdo noir.

#riotgrams

I wanted to zoom in one of my #animalcovers for #recommendsday

Jonathan Lethem is well known now for his high minded works with slight elements of the fantastic, but let's not forget that his first novel was a wild science fiction hard-boiled noir with superintelligent babies, a gun-toting kangaroo, and a detective who just wants his own genitals back.

You should probably read this. #riotgrams

Silly silly silly but as a sucker for noir detective novels and sci-fi I loved it. Plus, talking kangaroo!

Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in a mirror.

This is the kind of story I would've really dug as a short story in high school. It's got neo-noir and scifi and dystopia and dames! With gams! I love noir, I really do. But this one really would've worked better as a short piece than stretched into a novel. Still, a mostly fun ride.

He really likes to chew on my books...

I love, love, love this book. Read it a few years ago and forgotten how entertaining it was, how smooth the prose, how imaginative Lethem is. I already want to read it again.