Reviews

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

esmeevl's review against another edition

challenging sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

aecinf's review against another edition

3.0

My first year of college, I was a theatre major. Theatre, spelled with the "r" before the "e" - because that is the true, artistic way to spell it. Anyone with any sense of art would know that!

This book felt like that first semester of college. All performance art and looking for hidden meanings. The story was simple and sad, but unfortunately it was overshadowed by all the strange, esoteric bull that the author felt the need to include.

Not my cup of tea; would not read again.

lucie16's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

lilacwine17's review against another edition

4.0

This book is about a boy trying to find a secret that he believes to be left by his father I thought the book was good but the ending was not exciting like you would think it would be

frostap's review

4.0

Different, but it made me cry on the metro and that counts for something.

laurasauras's review

5.0

A beautiful book. I read it in a single day because I was so attached to the impossible goal and beautiful relationships in it.

leggup's review against another edition

5.0

You will cry reading this book. I really want to reread it, but I have to wait a while before I do again. Utterly cathartic.

lex_da_rex23755's review

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

3.0

abeera_saadat's review

slow-paced

0.25

Absolutely horrible. Do not read. 

jess_mango's review against another edition

5.0

I loved "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" more than I liked "Everything is Illuminated." This funny, quirky, yet sad book is told from the perspecitves of 3 characters:a young boy trying to come to terms with the loss of his father, the boy's grandmother and her estranged husband. Highly recommended!