I'm still not sure what all I think about Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union. I mean, sure, what about a hardboiled detective novel set in a alternate history where, post-WWII, Jews settled not in Israel but in Alaska is not to love? Maybe it's the wordiness -- Chabon never uses one word where ten will do. And the words are good words, it's just that there are so many of them. I hit a real slow down a third of the way into the book and took a break to read two other books. Once I got back into it, the book flowed along, though.
FuzzyCo grade: B
Mr. Smith
"Chabon never uses one word where ten will do. And the words are good words, it's just that there are so many of them."
Indeed. His work is so rich, that it's tough to finish it in one go. Like a big piece of chocolate cake. I'm on my YPU right now and plan on picking it up again over the holidays.