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[missaline]

6. extremely loud and incredibly close - jonathan safran foer

I don't know what to think about this. He's not a genius, but it often feels close. I feel that it's often easier to write from the perspective of a child or an old person, because one can be simpler, more direct, in a fashion that would sound cheesy from adults. It made me cry.

Comments

[nicolasix]

i much preferred everything is illuminated to this, and i feel his 'whimsy' or whatever it is is slightly kitsch and, maybe forced? in this book. but i too loved it, and him, and i believe he really had a knack for saying exactly the right things in the right way more often than not.

(plus it makes me dizzy because my copy of this is signed to me! wheee!)

[missaline]

Wooooo... did you meet him? I think I preferred Everything is illuminated too, although I find that time makes these comparisons so difficult! Have you read The History of Love by Nicole Krauss? It's his wife, funnily enough, and they write in a similar way; but to my mind she's more whimsical. But still has that knack sometimes too.

[machaco]

is this the guy who wrote "everything is illuminated"? i really liked the movie.