I know I'm supposed to like it and everything, but I found the boy to be incredibly annoying/boring - kind of a watered down version of Mark Haddon's boy in The Curious Incident. I liked the other story better, the one about his grandparents.
I had a hard time deciding if I liked or hated this book. It was very difficult to follow and was a story based on an event that greatly affected every individual in the US. Being a mental health professional, all I saw throughout the book was mental illness but it was never addressed. Was I imagini...
I gave this book 4 other tries, but every time it fell out of my hands after barely five minutes. The main narrative isn't that interesting, and the "grandparents" ones (I haven't even been able to finish the third one) managed to make me, who usually like stream of consciousness writing, cringe in ...
This book is amazing. Really. It is the saddest book I have ever read. The amount of pain and grief is unbelievable. I could feel everything the characters felt. I like the fact that there are different points of view, so you understand everyone’s part in the story better. Why they went away, why th...
I read this book for book club and found that although the story was interesting, I really didn't like the way it was written. It's the story of a boy named Oskar whose father died in 9/11. He finds a key and believes that his father has hidden something for him somewhere in NY and he's set out to f...
My boots feel a little heavier having watched the movie before I read this book :( The book was pretty good, so many quotable lines in it! I loved that you got to know the Grandmother better in the book than you did in the movie. It just stinks going into a book knowing what's going to happen, it ta...
How about, extremely pretentious and incredibly gimmicky? I see a lot of reviewers have enjoyed this book, and certainly whether you love it or hate it will ultimately depend on your personal taste, but it was just too contrived for me. The writing style with its "creative" typographical choices and...
Not a book for the impatient or the timid of spirit, but it should go down in history as one of the finest post-9/11 novels. I wish I could give it six stars.
I'm having a hard time sorting out my feelings for this book. The rating is actually a weighted average because parts of it deserve five stars, but the flaws run so deeply, I almost gave it one star instead. Foer is clearly an excellent writer capable of writing deeply affecting prose. I don't mind ...
Da bambina la mia vita era una musica che suonava sempre più forte.Tutto mi emozionava. Un cane che seguiva uno sconosciuto. Era una sensazione così intensa. Un calendario aperto sul mese sbagliato. Avrei potuto piangerci sopra. E piangevo. Quando finiva il fumo di un camino. Il modo in cui una bott...
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