I picked this out at Wordsworths while hanging out with Adam on one of his too-rare trips to Boston. We each bought a copy, and I'm curious to know what he thought of his.

I, frankly, was disappointed. Lethem seeds an interesting premise: the protagonist's girlfriend falls in love with a laboratory curiosity — a void with a peculiar sort of intelligence. Although Lethem explores this idea in an interesting way, the characters are never developed such that you'd really care what happens to them. No one in the novel is likable, and the twist ending leaves you thinking "so what?" This short novel probably should have been a short story. Lethem shows enough promise, however, that I'll willing to try something else by him.