Comments on: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close http://www.babygotbooks.com/2005/06/06/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/ Your head will collapse if there's nothing in it Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:16:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Edward Champion’s Return of the Reluctant » The “Too Soon” Mentality http://www.babygotbooks.com/2005/06/06/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/comment-page-1/#comment-466 Edward Champion’s Return of the Reluctant » The “Too Soon” Mentality Mon, 03 Apr 2006 05:12:26 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2005/06/06/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/#comment-466 [...] It seems that every time a book or a film dealing with September 11th comes out, someone cries out the words, “Too soon!” It happened recently with Jay McInerney’s The Good Life, when Norman Mailer told McInerney that McInerney should wait ten years before attempting a novel about it. It happened with Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, where people declared it was “too soon” for a novelist to write about 9/11. And now it’s happening again with United 93. The trailer was released to theatres and people reacted negatively. The result? An AMC Loews theatre in the Upper West Side pulled the trailer. [...] [...] It seems that every time a book or a film dealing with September 11th comes out, someone cries out the words, “Too soon!” It happened recently with Jay McInerney’s The Good Life, when Norman Mailer told McInerney that McInerney should wait ten years before attempting a novel about it. It happened with Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, where people declared it was “too soon” for a novelist to write about 9/11. And now it’s happening again with United 93. The trailer was released to theatres and people reacted negatively. The result? An AMC Loews theatre in the Upper West Side pulled the trailer. [...]

]]> By: DJ Cayenne http://www.babygotbooks.com/2005/06/06/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/comment-page-1/#comment-250 DJ Cayenne Tue, 21 Feb 2006 03:57:39 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2005/06/06/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/#comment-250 Flava - You have a career ahead of you in fiction. Sadly, the book did not turn out that way. He wasn’t elected mayor, but alderman-at-large. Flava – You have a career ahead of you in fiction. Sadly, the book did not turn out that way. He wasn’t elected mayor, but alderman-at-large.

]]> By: FlavaWheel http://www.babygotbooks.com/2005/06/06/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/comment-page-1/#comment-249 FlavaWheel Tue, 21 Feb 2006 03:56:49 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2005/06/06/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/#comment-249 Please, oh please, tell me that somewhere along the way he befriends an elderly, jive-talking black man named Slappie who shows him to a magical world under the city streets where the homeless have created fantastic machines from scrap metal and garbage, including musical intruments which they use to create elaborate operetta in the vain of Andrew Lloyd Webba (word!) They have a rollicking good time until the Evil Mayor sends the brutish NYPD down the sewers to sweep them out. They’re all rounded up except for the boy, Slappie and his precocious dog Rags, who escape in the nick of time. They flee to Central Park West, where Slappie’s friend Farnsworth, an eccentric billionaire, listens with great concern to their dilemma and ushers them into his secret lab, where they work out a fiendishly clever plan to free Slappie’s ragtag army of hobos and depose the mayor. In the end, it works beautifully, but, alas, the mayor uses his secret emergency alarm to summon the NYPD. All hope seems lost until the boy hops on the mayor’s desk and tearfully explains his situation and that all he really wants *sniff* is his father’s gold watch, which is locked away in the mayor’s vault. The police are so moved that they arrest the mayor, who is lead off to a cell in the sewers built by the hobo army. Slappie is made mayor of New York and life is better than it’s ever been. We pan out of the mayor’s office to see Slappie, Farnsworth, the boy and Rags swaying back and forth to a lively number performed by the now tuxedo-clad hobo band. The boy looks down at his watch and smiles. Rags barks. Every laughs. The end. Is THAT what happened? If not that’d be cool. Please, oh please, tell me that somewhere along the way he befriends an elderly, jive-talking black man named Slappie who shows him to a magical world under the city streets where the homeless have created fantastic machines from scrap metal and garbage, including musical intruments which they use to create elaborate operetta in the vain of Andrew Lloyd Webba (word!) They have a rollicking good time until the Evil Mayor sends the brutish NYPD down the sewers to sweep them out. They’re all rounded up except for the boy, Slappie and his precocious dog Rags, who escape in the nick of time. They flee to Central Park West, where Slappie’s friend Farnsworth, an eccentric billionaire, listens with great concern to their dilemma and ushers them into his secret lab, where they work out a fiendishly clever plan to free Slappie’s ragtag army of hobos and depose the mayor. In the end, it works beautifully, but, alas, the mayor uses his secret emergency alarm to summon the NYPD. All hope seems lost until the boy hops on the mayor’s desk and tearfully explains his situation and that all he really wants *sniff* is his father’s gold watch, which is locked away in the mayor’s vault. The police are so moved that they arrest the mayor, who is lead off to a cell in the sewers built by the hobo army. Slappie is made mayor of New York and life is better than it’s ever been. We pan out of the mayor’s office to see Slappie, Farnsworth, the boy and Rags swaying back and forth to a lively number performed by the now tuxedo-clad hobo band. The boy looks down at his watch and smiles. Rags barks. Every laughs. The end.

Is THAT what happened? If not that’d be cool.

]]> By: swizzle d http://www.babygotbooks.com/2005/06/06/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/comment-page-1/#comment-248 swizzle d Tue, 21 Feb 2006 03:56:10 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2005/06/06/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/#comment-248 Well, Shaft, if you mean Robert has some real star potential, I as his mother/agent would agree. But then again, look what happened to Macauley Caulkin or whatever the hell that kid’s name is. D.J., certainly didn’t intend to diss your book without giving it thoughtful consideration. I think I am just not in the mood for fiction as of late. Look for my post coming soon. Well, Shaft, if you mean Robert has some real star potential, I as his mother/agent would agree. But then again, look what happened to Macauley Caulkin or whatever the hell that kid’s name is. D.J., certainly didn’t intend to diss your book without giving it thoughtful consideration. I think I am just not in the mood for fiction as of late. Look for my post coming soon.

]]> By: Shaft http://www.babygotbooks.com/2005/06/06/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/comment-page-1/#comment-247 Shaft Tue, 21 Feb 2006 03:55:52 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2005/06/06/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/#comment-247 I’ve been to the Swizzle’s house, and the thing that’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close’s name is Robert. I’ve been to the Swizzle’s house, and the thing that’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close’s name is Robert.

]]> By: DJ Cayenne http://www.babygotbooks.com/2005/06/06/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/comment-page-1/#comment-246 DJ Cayenne Tue, 21 Feb 2006 03:55:29 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2005/06/06/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/#comment-246 Damn. I need to work on my skills of persuasion. I did mention that it is a book and not a movie right? Also: the kid in the book does not tell Jerry McGuire that the average human brain weighs 8 1/2 pounds. I promise. Damn. I need to work on my skills of persuasion. I did mention that it is a book and not a movie right? Also: the kid in the book does not tell Jerry McGuire that the average human brain weighs 8 1/2 pounds. I promise.

]]> By: swizzle d http://www.babygotbooks.com/2005/06/06/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/comment-page-1/#comment-245 swizzle d Tue, 21 Feb 2006 03:55:08 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2005/06/06/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/#comment-245 I have to say after that review I have no interest in the book whatsoever. I hate movies with kids and books even more. All I can see is that Haley Joel Osment kid riding on the subway to all the burroughs. Kids in the movies are always pretty ugly; even when their parents are hotties. It just ruins the whole experience. However, I do think someone should write a book or screenplay where someone actually escapes out of the Towers on 9/11 and in split life defining moment, decides not to go home. Just disappears on to the street to start life over as a completely different person. That’d be cool. I have to say after that review I have no interest in the book whatsoever. I hate movies with kids and books even more. All I can see is that Haley Joel Osment kid riding on the subway to all the burroughs. Kids in the movies are always pretty ugly; even when their parents are hotties. It just ruins the whole experience. However, I do think someone should write a book or screenplay where someone actually escapes out of the Towers on 9/11 and in split life defining moment, decides not to go home. Just disappears on to the street to start life over as a completely different person. That’d be cool.

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