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Wow. This book was amazing. Foer created interesting and quirky characters that were able to reach my jaded black heart. I don't often feel a connection like that. Congrats Foer. This book deals with 9/11 without being phony or patronizing. It was real, and in that, really true. Keats had it right when he told us that "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."
If I have to pick out something I wasn't fond of in the novel, it would be some of the images contained and some of the confusing POV changes. I do ...more
If I have to pick out something I wasn't fond of in the novel, it would be some of the images contained and some of the confusing POV changes. I do ...more
Oskar Schell is nine years old and he views himself as an inventor, a Shakespearean actor, a Francophile, a pacifist, a jeweler, and a tambourine player. And now he is on a quest. His father died in the World Trade Center on 9/11 and after his father's death, Oskar found a key among his father's possessions that doesn't open any lock in their apartment. Now Oskar is searching for the lock that the key will open and his search leads him all over New York City from Coney Island to Harlem and he me
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I did not know what this would be exactly, but I found something much deeper and more necessary than I anticipated.
Reading this 20 years after 9/11/2001 was unintentional, but turned out to be the right way to call back an event, the memories of which have been diluted by everything else that followed. The event is not 9/11, the event is a marker of a culture shift, of a deep intake of breath for a country. Literature like this is incredibly valuable for capturing a feeling of a moment, of exis ...more
Reading this 20 years after 9/11/2001 was unintentional, but turned out to be the right way to call back an event, the memories of which have been diluted by everything else that followed. The event is not 9/11, the event is a marker of a culture shift, of a deep intake of breath for a country. Literature like this is incredibly valuable for capturing a feeling of a moment, of exis ...more
Couldn't put this book down - literally. I read it in one sitting, in a 5 hour burst this afternoon. Foer's other novel, Everything is Illuminated, I found a little hard to get into, but with this one I didn't have that problem. I love that it was as much *how* the story was told as what the story was. This was a book that moved me to tears more than once, which is not a usual thing for me, but it didn't ever feel hopeless.
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What an amazing book. Poignant finishing it right before the 9/11 anniversary.
I went back and forth on this book, and there were definitely a lot of things I didn't like about it, but upon completion, even though the ending was somewhat dissatisfying, I decided I liked it.
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I felt emotionally manipulated by this book. There were some cool stories involved though so it was entertaining.
if you dont read this book, i dont want to be your friend. that is all.
3.5 stars.
Dec 17, 2008
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