Pros: Character development was good Cons: Too many distractions took me out of the book, away from the story
I really wanted to like it. I tried to like it. Parts of me felt like I should like it. Parts of me liked parts of it. But taken on the whole, all of me didn’t really like Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly ...
Pros: Nice inventive writing... Cons: bogged down in a self indulgent mire.
There’s only one thing more annoying than coming across quirky, precocious kids in real life, and that’s reading novels about quirky, precocious kids in fiction. There seems to be a lot of it around at the moment; from the slow ...
Pros: Inventive and thought provoking Cons: The occasional unnecessary sexual content (between grandparents & another section between sisters?)
“So, to make a long story short…” “Please, don’t make it short.” Somewhere around page 300 I tripped across this exchange and lost it. I’ve no idea what was so significant about those particular words besides the ...
This tale is about a precocious boy who looks for the lock to a key he finds in his father's belongings. His father has died in the 9/11 attack and he treks all over the city in search for what his father kept a secret. The book trails his memories, ...
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