false 4588 33 "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" has been one of the most discussed, acclaimed, and debated novels in recent memory. And with good reason as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution noted, "Jonathan Safran Foer has done something both masterful and absolutely necessary: he has written the first great novel about September 11." Foer confronts a subject few writers have dared approach, and what he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination. Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is on a mission to find the lock that matches a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. An inspired innocent, Oskar is alternately endearing, exasperating, and hilarious as he careens from Central Park to Coney Island to Harlem on his search. As he roams the five boroughs, Oskar encounters a motley assortment of people who are all survivors in their own way. His journey concludes in an emotional climax of truth, beauty, and heartbreak. In "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," Foer once again demonstrates his ability to evoke and unravel the most personal and complex matters of the heart. 1940137 book 2005 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close total:24624|5:11235|4:8237|3:3683|2:1047|1:422| 24624 102688 36320 4130 5 51 false false Wed Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 20 05:33:09 -0800 2008 Wed Apr 01 17:42:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 26 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 30 08:03:21 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 05 07:51:45 -0700 2007
Sometimes I find the book so funny that I laugh out loud. Which is fine if I had a quiet laugh,...more...]]> 1 32 false false Fri Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 08:57:06 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 15 09:00:03 -0700 2008
What Jona...more...]]> 4 15 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 24 19:09:28 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 01 05:52:30 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 28 false false Sat Oct 17 17:50:28 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 20:55:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 13 false false Wed Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 06:35:37 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 08:18:26 -0700 2008 A more apt title would have been Terribly Artificial and Unbearably Pretentious. This seems like the kind of thing I would have thought was a profound idea when I myself was nine, laboring on crayon illustrations to include with my manuscript into the wee hours of the morning. Maybe that means...more...]]> 4 10 false false Mon Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Oct 06 13:09:31 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 17 10:17:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 12 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Jul 01 07:03:49 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 19:22:34 -0700 2007 I was completely baffaled at Foer's ability to know and convey so many things at once. His intimate view in...more...]]> 5 9 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 26 12:19:37 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 15 10:47:36 -0700 2007 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is the best book of the 21st century so far. But I will say that it's the best book I've read so far this century, and that Foer belongs in the...more...]]> 5 9 false true Sat Dec 20 11:54:21 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 14 16:51:33 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 11:54:21 -0800 2008 could have rated it a 10. There is soooo much that is amazing about this book. I only finished last night, this morning while shaving I thought of even another amazing thing.

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It's a little too hip for me, in the sense that I don't think anybody really gets what the hell Foer is trying to say, but because it's obscure everyone likes it.

Or maybe I'm just looking too m...more...]]> 1 9 false false Sat Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 08 18:47:28 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 08 18:50:55 -0800 2008 ]]> 4 7 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 18 03:53:17 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 24 02:51:47 -0700 2007 Oskar decides not to tell his mother and keeps it for it self.

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* The part that moved me most was the record Oskar played at school, the interview with the Hiroshima survivor, talking about his daughte...more...]]>