A review by chapita4
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

1.0

I wanted to like this book, and I think it could have been really great but I was too distracted by the authors noisy brain. Was it Something or Nothing? It had such potential to be a good story but I had hard time getting past all the symbolism and abstractness. I found it irritating to slog through the chapters that were flipping back and forth between the little boys story and his grandparents, and don't get me started on the blank pages or the pages with one tiny sentence or photo. Although I like a family of eccentric neurotics as much as the next person I couldn't get to know these people enough to like them.