A review by madsreb
Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer

3.0

Firstly, completely agree with all the reviews that say this book needs a serious edit. If you removed all the double negatives alone it would be about 250 pages shorter. It's confusing, meandering, repetitive, and jumps back and forth through the narrative in a completely jarring way that often serves zero purpose. Admittedly, there were a few short passages that brought me to tears or made me laugh out loud (Benjy and Max are by far the best characters), but I'm not sure whether it was worth wading through 600 pages of metaphor to find them. That said, I couldn't put the bloody thing down, and feel as though I'll never forget it. Can't decide whether zero or five stars, so three it is.