Thinking of tackling Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude after that, even though I didn't much care for the only other book I've read by him, Amnesia Moon. Does anybody know if this one is as good as it's supposed to be?
I enjoyed most of it, there were parts of it that actually reminded me a lot of David Gordon Green's George Washington (if it were set in Brooklyn). I'm split on the other Lethem I've read. Motherless Brooklyn was pretty good (although it's been many years since I read it and I don't remember much about it now) but I absolutely hated You Don't Love Me Yet.
I also liked
Motherless Brooklyn.
The Fortress of Solitude didn't do too much for me. Like
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (another fat book that incorporates comic book myths and was shooting for "great book" status) I actually think that my own comic book fandom interfered with my appreciation of it. In all, I think that I liked
Fortress a little more than
Kavalier and Clay, but wouldn't wholeheartedly recommend it.
I just finished Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth. It's now in my top 5 list of "1st person, Self-Deprecating Novels."
Any other suggestions for this category?
Wonder Boys. (I'm pretty sure it's first person).
Portnoy's Complaint is really great, isn't it? There are a few lines that still rattle around in my head, ten years after reading them.