It felt like it had been far too long since I had the pleasure of attending
City Lit's "Weird & Wonderful" book club, and last Wednesday's discussion of
Max Barry's "Lexicon" (2013) was a delightful return! The novel uses a science-fictional concept (controlling people by means of neurolinguistic "hacking") but is done more in the mode of a thriller. We all quite enjoyed it, and while our discussion focused more on the ideas than the plot, there may be SPOILERS BELOW:
