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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this book up two days ago to read the first page (I personally think you can tell a lot about a book from the first page) and was hooked. I'm in the middle of another book, which is a good book, but the jarring nature of the prose reeled me in. The first chapter is called, &quot;What the?&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5072619">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Whatever with what happens to us when we die, this book reminds us of how connected we are right now and being connectioned to somone as brilliant as Foer is reason enough to be grateful!<br/>I was completely baffaled at Foer's ability to know and convey so many things at once. His intimate view in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2587591">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't think I read enough contemporary fiction to make sweeping, definitive statements about it.  So I won't say that <em>Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close</em> 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...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2410573">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[well, one probably shouldn't review a book right after one finishes it; particular not a book that leaves one a quivering wreck. but -- fuck you jonathan safran foer for writing two books that have reduced me to a weeping jackass and fuck you for being so talented and so young. ugh. how depressing. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74864683">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The 5 star system here on goodreads, means that you thought the Book was amazing. That being the case I logically <em>could</em> 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.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37752308">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ just finished Jonathan Safran Foer's novel last night, late, because I couldn't sleep and I only had a little bit left to read. At it's end, I wept. It is not a sentimental book. It's written in experimental style, with doodles and photos and random placement of words, phrases, dialogue running int...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1828624">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jonathan Safran Foer is one of the most creative storytellers I have ever read.  He doesn't just tell you the story - he uses the medium itself as a symbol, weaving his stories as immersive meta-narratives in which you are both an observer and a participant, and in so doing, he achieves emotional co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8729450">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Perhaps I'm just stupid, but I don't get this book, nor am I really crazy about it.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>Or maybe I'm just looking too m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15165666">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I promised myself that I wouldn't compare Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (EL&amp;IC) with its predecessor, Everything is Illuminated, because they are two completely different books and should each stand on their own. However, as they are both works by an author I admire I will say this: EII was gr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4366577">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There is something to be said for knowing one's limitations, a lesson that was clearly lost on Jonathan Safran Foer.  Foer attempts to be part J.D. Salinger (alienated quest), part William Faulkner (conflict with environment), and part E.L. Doctorow (hybridized novel), but does not have the literary...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1499635">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I hate to keep pointing out to everyone that I listened to the audio version of this or that book, as it gets repetitive after awhile, and for the most part, it is usually irrelevant. In this case, though, it seems to have made a difference.<br/><br/>When I finished <em>Extremely Loud &amp; Incredibly Clo...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41075023">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would highly advise not reading Nicole Krauss' History of Love and (her husband) Jonathon Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close within a few months of one another. Whatever one you read first will taint the second one (though I'll argue that Foer's is the better of the two). Since I'll...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19369987">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an incredibly heart-breaking book set in a post-9/11 New York and starring a tender young boy searching for proof that his father survived the collapse of the World Trade Center.  A very personal, very human, look at an event and it's aftermath that is truly refreshing after the past four ye...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/955356">more...</a>]]></body>
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