Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Positive Book Review

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Well, what a special novel this is. I don't think I've read anything quite like it, and I certainly didn't expect it to be so unique. I beloved information technology, and a quarter of the fashion through I wasn't certain I was going to.

If (like me) y'all find the pb character, and primary narrator Oskar Schell a petty frustrating and, in my mind, slightly unrealistically painted at times, stick with it. By the terminate my heart had completely warmed to this 9-year-old boy who was going through something no child should have to. And this is the emotion I wanted and expected to experience knowing the content prior to reading it.

Considering, you run across, this is a story about a small family in NYC coping with the loss of father, hubby, and son–Henry Schell–in the September 11 set on on the World Merchandise Centre.

You lot already know this is going to be a heavy book, but it is but so stunningly, beautifully written. If a book were a painting this would be upwards there with the Monets, Picassos, Rembrandt, DaVincis and Van Goghs.

And then what makes it so beautiful? Well for a start, the journey that Oskar goes on, secondly the unique linguistic communication that the book uses which embellish its narrative characters (who are likewise each of Oskar'south grandparents, although this is not wholly apparent until later in the book and never spelt out.)

Oskar has his own lilliputian catchphrases and words he likes to utilise, which are utterly part of who he is, and include 'heavy boots' which is what Oskar sometimes says he has, and ways that he is very sad/depressed. And he has 'acceptable' phrases for swear words–for example, he replaces the "S" give-and-take with "shiitake."

Jonathan Safran Foer amazingly writes in the way a kid of ix years of age speaks and yet at the aforementioned time manages to convey the super-intelligence of this young boy. And indeed it is this super-intelligence that causes much of Oskar'south problem in his mind, although of course, this is too a male child who has quite merely and damningly lost his father.

From the start, we are enlightened of the close relationship Oskar had with his dad that he does not have with his mother and one of the about special things that occurred in their relationship was the way his begetter managed the intelligence Oskar has by giving him the capacity to explore it and besides to piece of work with his weakness (Oskar finds it difficult to talk to people) through activities such as reconnaissance expeditions around the metropolis.

It is a truly magnificent human relationship between father and son, and by painting it as such we are, as the reader, absolutely heartbroken that it was destroyed by the tragedy of ix/xi.

And this is just the main plot. Heartbreaking subplots also exist within Oskar'due south grandparent'due south relationship and in Oskar and his mother'southward relationship finding its feet in his father's absenteeism. Plus of grade, we do not forget to wonder how Oskar's female parent is coping with the loss of Henry Schell either, and it is touching both in the centre of the story, when she has a heated discussion with Oskar, and in the last pages of the novel that we get to see a little of how she feels.

Finally this volume is a wonderful perspective on the many different human beings that live in this world and the variety of our lives and how you can find pretty much all that diverseness in New York City. In Oskar'south journey he meets a ton of people all with their ain unique characteristics, some with their own devastating traumas to deal with and all of class, conspicuously on a journey of their own. As nosotros all are.

Here is a quote which I highlighted on my Kindle whilst reading as it struck me as being i of the key themes in the book: "I looked at anybody and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for."

Something that really is a key concept when we remember those who died in 9/eleven too.

Please read this volume, please stick with it and please shout about information technology to everyone you know when you've finished information technology! I have merely marked information technology downwardly to 4 stars because I still have some reservations about some of the subplots and the believability of the characters. Really I think information technology's nearly four.5 because I can't get it out of my caput for the last few days since I finished it.

Guest review contributed by Pocket Down Under . A British transplant in Australia, this volume review blogger hosts a website that is ever evolving and consistently book related.

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