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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Jonathan Safran Foer

Start date: November 1, 2014

Finish date: November 30, 2014

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Dec 28, 2009 ╟ ♫ Tima ♪ ╣ ♥ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2012, source-library, 4-stars

I'm reading this in eBook form and the formatting is so absolutely terrible that the book is becoming almost impossible to navigate and read. Not only are the images distracting to begin with but when they're poorly formatted, it makes it so there is no way to decipher the letters.

I'd give the formatting of this book a 0-rating if I could rate just that function. But the story seems decent, so far.

This book is not as great all the hype, but they rarely are so I'm trying not to judge the book bas ...more

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Jun 24, 2012 Bev rated it really liked it

This was definitely the strangest book I've read in a long time, but I did enjoy it.
Really liked how the movie was done and it actually improved on parts of the book)
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Jan 29, 2012 Sofia rated it liked it

A very intense journey through mourning.

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Feb 16, 2012 Denise rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, kindle, 2012-reading-challenge

I loved this book, and I loved Oskar, the main character. It is several parallel stories at once, but the primary tale was of a very intelligent boy trying to understand his beloved father's tragic death on 9-11. ...more

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May 14, 2012 Amanda rated it did not like it

Ugh. NOT my book. I think I gave it two chapters. And I only gave it that many because it was a book club book. The only word I can apply to it is, "craptastic". ...more

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