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I've never been a particular faan of Noir fiction. Not that I didn't like it, if fact I liked what I saw of old Noir flicks and the Noir elements of such modern works as Sin City and Blade Runner. I've never gone out of my way for Noir. So when someone lent me Jonathan Lethem's first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, I trod through it's dark and hard-boiled pages warily. I'd Read Letham's Motherless Brooklyn a few years back and liked it very much. Overall the back and forth questioning of the protagonist Private Eye, Metcalf, got stale about halfway through the 262 pages. What I found most interesting was that I saw in Gun the seeds that would evolve into Motherless. Even years later I saw how Letham's writing and characterization evolved like the talking, gun-toting Kangaroos and apes of his first novel..

Reading this now, lent by Christian Tateo.

Can't believe I have never read this before.

An updated take on Marvel's classic Avengers. A great story of contemporary heroism.