Can’t sleep. Well, it isn’t like I’ve actually TRIED, but I’m just not feeling like sleeping tonight.
I finished up Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer the other night. I can’t even explain how wonderful this book is. It will be one of those that I end up recommending to EVERYONE because I loved it so much, but without thinking seriously about whether the other person would enjoy the read. I did the same thing with John Kennedy Toole and absolutely everything by David Sedaris.
The writing style, the recitation of dialogue, could be annoying to some I guess. This same style, and the dark, fanciful and sometimes joyful imaginings of the main character were charming to me. While the story, and the telling, are sometimes overwhelmingly sad (indeed I found myself crying at more than one point), I truly cared about Oskar… Something that hasn’t happened to me while reading in a while. I read a lot, and lots of different types of novels, but I guess I just haven’t read about a protagonist that I really wanted to pull for in some time.
So, Tumblrverse, all 46 of my followers (or whatever), I am going to say read this book. No I’m not really going to tell you anything about it. Except that it’s about a boy named Oskar. In New York. And that you should buy it. And pay full price. So that Jonathan Safran Foer will get rich. Because he deserves it for writing 2 of my top 20 favorite books of all time (this one and Everything is Illuminated). In fact, pick that one up too and get lost.
No really. Get lost.
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