Chronic City? Does it stay boring?

[Joseph Tracy]

I'm halfway through Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City.  Is there any  
drama in this book? Does this get any better. I do like Oona because  
I know someone remarkably like her, but everyone seems kind of stuck  
and Lethem's plan for unsticking them has not shown up yet.. I also   
read Fortress of Solitude, I liked the old R& B singer and his son .  
but everything else was pretty so so.  So far I think Lethem is  
overrated. He covers interesting terrain but so far the only plot I  
can find is on the book jacket.
Another problem   The pot smoking central to Chronic  does not   
produce thc like thoughts. The narrator saying they were really  
stoned is a shitty excuse for delving into and replicating the  
experience in a literary form. These are reflective and introspective  
people  and smoking weed should show itself more discernibly in their  
thought patterns.