A review by ecari
As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem

2.0

I bought this book on a whim, when I saw that Lethem was the author (I loved "Motherless Brooklyn") and it was on sale. I read it quickly (it's short) but I found the characters fairly uninteresting. The book's plot is intriguing (a woman falls in love with her physics experiment; her boyfriend struggles to hold his own), but the ending left me cold (which perhaps it was supposed to) and the physics talk - whether real or made up, I wouldn't know - was not particularly fun to read either. Most interesting piece was the underlying critique of academia, and I do enjoy Lethem's writing style which pulled me through. All in all, though, not high on my list.