Chronic City??? final thoughts

[Joseph Tracy]

Well i forced myself to finish the Lethem Novel. I will never read  
another of his books. Truly , painfully dreadful.  Ineptly using fake  
suspense to ineptly sustain  fake introspection to reveal  the warm  
goo at the bottom of  a con job. It doesn't entertain, It doesn't   
engage emotionally, it doesn't reveal or challenge intellectually;   
it is a book jacket con job through and through, a clever Hollywood  
outline without a soul. Even though it is a library book I still feel  
as though my pocket was picked.