Motherless Brooklyn

Motherless Brooklyn

1999 • 311 pages

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Average rating3.8

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Sure, why not? Completely works as both pure noir and a modern-day recontextualisation of the same. And it sticks the landing, and sometimes even otherwise-great detective novels can't quite manage that.

August 10, 2013
June 25, 2023
May 1, 2014

Really enjoyed this book and especially liked the tourettes sufferer's perspective.

The end of the book was good, but felt a little lazy; i.e. having the resolved events of the book handed to me, rather than being left with enough information throughout the book to draw my own conclusions.

April 11, 2016

Unique perspective, story gets boring in the last 100 pages.
Mystery isn't that great.

March 6, 2020
April 18, 2015
November 1, 2011

Loved it. The voice is unique, funny and tragic, and now I'm hoping the author's other books are as enjoyable.

November 21, 2016

interesting book. a detective novel with Tourette's as the twist. Novel is in the first person. Narrator has Tourette's Syndrome. Not sure how accurate the description is of how the detective experiences the disease.

December 3, 2013