Extremely Loud Discussion
I missed this since I was traveling for work last week, but Slate ran a multi-day discussion of Jonathan Safran Foer’s new book, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I loved his first book (not everyone did), Everything Is Illuminated. Govern yourself accordingly.
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April 4, 2005 3:39 pm
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By Nitro Nicole, April 4, 2005 @ 5:37 pm
New York magazine reviewed it this week and it was not a good review. The reviewer felt that it was a cop-out to have a child narrate a post 9/11 book because of the lack of emotional maturity…..Anyway I was excited to read the book but now my enthusiasm has waned.
By DJ Cayenne, April 4, 2005 @ 8:11 pm
I think that this Slate discussion gave some good rationale for using a kid, even an unlikable kid. JSF gets a lot of shit for trying to write in a different way than the typical narrative – just like Dave Eggers, who the authors of this discussion also discuss as a lightning rod for enmity. From what I’ve read, I am still interested enough to give it a go.