I agree about the short fiction, what little I've read of it. Of the novels, I liked Kavalier and Clay and The Yiddish Policeman's Union pretty well, but didn't love either. I liked And Gentlemen of the Road best of the ones I've read, because it was a bit less self-conscious. Summerland, to me, was bloated and dull, and by all rights I should have loved it: baseball and Norse gods! How can you go wrong! . . . and yet.