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May 24, 2010
Desperately seeking Black
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Heartbreaking and funny about nine year old (or so) Oscar, a precocious Upper East Side boy trying to find a secret of his father (who died in the 9/11 attack), interwoven with the history of his grandfather and grandmother, who survived the Dresden bombings.
Inventive and funny - I don't normally like books that try to be creative with typography and pictures to tell a story, but it works here. And Oscar is a hoot, vaguely related to the protagonist in The curious incident with the dog in nighttime, with his idiosyncratic messages "José!" and convoluted, yet strangely logical thinking. My favorite sentence: "More people are live today than ever lived. That means that if they all wanted to play Hamlet at once, there wouldn't be enough skulls."
Posted by Espen at May 24, 2010 6:57 PM
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offtopic: I was browsing the courses list from mother site and noticed it's not really updated :-) was curious about an updated curricula, new cases, topics, etc - is there any other place i could have a peep? thanks
Posted by: dragos at June 1, 2010 11:26 AM