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Favorable
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Boston Globe Boston Globe
Where [Lethem’s] extravagant love for New York in "Motherless Brooklyn" and "The Fortress of Solitude" was matched by an equally wide-screen scope of narrative, he has shrunk himself to fit the narrower confines of his new book. He is too large a writer to make himself so small.
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Favorable
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Chicago Tribune Art Winslow
Its light approach...and brevity leave You Don't Love Me Yet seeming more of an extended sketch than a fully developed novel, but the flux of Lethem's ideas turns the book into a fun divertissement.
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Favorable
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Entertainment Weekly Ken Tucker
A melancholy comedy of raucous manners. With minor-key brilliance, Lethem describes how alluring pop is crafted in a state of joyous tedium.
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Favorable
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Los Angeles Times Deborah Vankin
Although it's decidedly lighter in tone than Lethem's more recent novels, with a spry, frolicking rhythm--breezy, even--it's still smart and funny, providing a biting satirical take on the intersection of art and commerce, integrity and façade.
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Favorable
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New York Observer Celia McGee
Since [Lethem’s] reworked his life growing up in the not-Manhattan again and again--with diminishing freshness--it was definitely time for a change...An entertaining novel. [12 March 2007, p.14]
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Favorable
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PopMatters Chris Barsanti
It’s a quickly devoured and quickly forgotten fiction with little resonance, which may be exactly what Lethem needed to deliver.
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Favorable
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The Globe And Mail [Toronto] Zsuzsi Gartner
A cultural essay in the guise of an entertaining, sexy little novel.
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Favorable
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Washington Post Joe Heim
This may seem the makings of a fairly flimsy plot for a novel, and in many respects it is. But then this is less a novel than a cultural manifesto about plagiarism.
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Favorable
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Houston Chronicle Edward Nawotka
This slick, entertaining novel offers a relationship with the writer and his characters far more satisfying and serious than mere "Astronaut Food."
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Mixed
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Village Voice Zach Baron
Lethem is as lucid about art here as he is anywhere else. But You Don't Love Me Yet asks us to delight in the borrowing of that which doesn't always seem worth taking.
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Mixed
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Publishers Weekly
[An] entertaining but largely insubstantial romantic farce.
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Mixed
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The New York Times Book Review David Kamp
I’m all for slight, easily digestible novels, but I daresay this one is a mite too parenthetical.
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Unfavorable
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The Onion A.V. Club Donna Bowman
[Lethem] fails...to produce a story or characters that can house these well-observed experiences. Instead, he shores up his book with a truckload of cuddly oddities. It's a missed opportunity for a talented but perhaps overextended writer.
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Unfavorable
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San Francisco Chronicle Heller McAlpin
You Don't Love Me Yet isn't anywhere near Lethem's best, but maybe we had been set up for disappointment: Our expectations were so high. [21 Mar 2007, p.E5]
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