A review by stromberg
Most Famous Short Film of All Time by Tucker Lieberman

challenging emotional funny informative reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This hybrid novel burrows into nesting parentheses—interrupting itself, then interrupting the interruption—as it both follows Lev’s experiences (meeting ghosts and goddesses, being targeted by a potential mass shooter, chasing his obsession with another man’s obsession) and traces his thoughts as they carom about. Great, chaotic fun—and also pathos, and darkness, and knotted notions.

Lev's voice is unforgettable, his preoccupations obsessive, his drybones humour endearing, his dissolution and recovery affecting. His caroming observations interweave questions on the nature of time, purloined cameras, workplace threats, awful boys, and very special guest star Clippy. 

The novel is a mélange of ideas in the best sense: not merely a jumble, but a philosophical corkboard bristling with a fantastical variety of pins, each connected to the other by a fractal web of coloured yarn. Lieberman’s artistry is in peppering you with these ideas while also, incredibly, helping you sense each connexion. Slow your reading… dwell on each… tuck it away… and sample the next. Before you know it, everything is connected to everything, and you, Gentle Reader, are either kooky or enlightened.

A lapidary novel, worth your attention.